The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Henry Baldwin, 1785 - 524 páginas |
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... written with the address and persuasion of the historian of America . " WHEN I saw you laft , you gave us fome " hopes that you might prevail with Mr. Johnson B 2 " to " to make out that excurfion to Scotland , with [ 3 ]
... written with the address and persuasion of the historian of America . " WHEN I saw you laft , you gave us fome " hopes that you might prevail with Mr. Johnson B 2 " to " to make out that excurfion to Scotland , with [ 3 ]
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... writing it . He was confcious of his fuperio- rity . He loved praise when it was brought to him ; but was too proud to feek for it . He was fomewhat fufceptible of flattery . His mind was fo full of imagery , that he might have been ...
... writing it . He was confcious of his fuperio- rity . He loved praise when it was brought to him ; but was too proud to feek for it . He was fomewhat fufceptible of flattery . His mind was fo full of imagery , that he might have been ...
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... written like a man conscious of the truth , and feeling his own ftrength . Treating your adversary with respect , is giving him an advan- tage to which he is not entitled . The greatest part of men cannot judge of reasoning , and are ...
... written like a man conscious of the truth , and feeling his own ftrength . Treating your adversary with respect , is giving him an advan- tage to which he is not entitled . The greatest part of men cannot judge of reasoning , and are ...
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... written papers in the World , and a variety of other works in profe and in verfe , both Latin and English , pleafed him highly . He told him , he had discovered the Life of Cheynel , in the Student , to be his.- Johnson . " No one elfe ...
... written papers in the World , and a variety of other works in profe and in verfe , both Latin and English , pleafed him highly . He told him , he had discovered the Life of Cheynel , in the Student , to be his.- Johnson . " No one elfe ...
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... written by Butler , but by Sir John Birkenhead ; for Wood , in his Athena Oxonienfes , Vol . II . p . 640 , enumerates it among that gentleman's works , and gives the following account of it : " The Assembly - man ( or the character of ...
... written by Butler , but by Sir John Birkenhead ; for Wood , in his Athena Oxonienfes , Vol . II . p . 640 , enumerates it among that gentleman's works , and gives the following account of it : " The Assembly - man ( or the character of ...
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Página 23 - Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
Página 418 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and...
Página 318 - This he said with good-humored English pleasantry. Soon afterwards, Corrichatachin, Col, and other friends assembled round my bed. Corri had a brandy bottle and glass with him, and insisted I should take a dram. "Ay," said Dr. Johnson, "fill him drunk again. Do it in the morning, that we may laugh at him all day. It is a poor thing for a fellow to get drunk at night, and skulk to bed, and let his friends have no sport.
Página 56 - We talked of change of manners. Dr. Johnson observed that our drinking less than our ancestors was owing to the change from ale to wine. "I remember," said he, "when all the decent people in Lichfield got drunk every night, and were not the worse thought of.
Página 318 - Prayer-book, I opened it at the twentieth Sunday after Trinity, in the epistle for which I read, " And be not drunk with wine, wherein there is excess.
Página 156 - Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.
Página 18 - As it rarely happens that a man is fit to plead his own cause, lawyers are a class of the community who, by study and experience, have acquired the art and power of arranging evidence and of applying to the points at issue what the law has settled. A lawyer is to do for his client all that his client might fairly do for himself if he could.
Página 273 - There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.
Página 213 - Tartan waistcoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes, a bluish philibeg, and Tartan hose. He had jet black hair tied behind, and was a large stately man, with a steady sensible countenance.