The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Henry Baldwin, 1785 - 524 pages |
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... Edinburgh , about " the clofe of the fummer feffion , and then " vifit fome of the Highland scenes , I am con- " fident he would be pleafed with the grand " features of nature in many parts of this " country : he will meet with many ...
... Edinburgh , about " the clofe of the fummer feffion , and then " vifit fome of the Highland scenes , I am con- " fident he would be pleafed with the grand " features of nature in many parts of this " country : he will meet with many ...
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... Edinburgh . With fuch propi- tious convoys did he proceed to my native city . But , left metaphor fhould make it be fuppofed he actually went by fea , I choose to mention that he travelled in poft - chaifes , of which the rapid motion ...
... Edinburgh . With fuch propi- tious convoys did he proceed to my native city . But , left metaphor fhould make it be fuppofed he actually went by fea , I choose to mention that he travelled in poft - chaifes , of which the rapid motion ...
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... Edinburgh . On Saturday the fourteenth of August , 1773 , late in the evening , I received a note from him , that he was arrived at Boyd's inn , at the head of the Canongate . I went to him directly . He embraced me cordially ; and I ...
... Edinburgh . On Saturday the fourteenth of August , 1773 , late in the evening , I received a note from him , that he was arrived at Boyd's inn , at the head of the Canongate . I went to him directly . He embraced me cordially ; and I ...
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... Edinburgh . I heard a late ba- ronet , of fome diftinction in the political world in the beginning of the prefent reign , obferve , that " walking the streets of Edinburgh at " night was pretty perilous , and a good deal " odoriferous ...
... Edinburgh . I heard a late ba- ronet , of fome diftinction in the political world in the beginning of the prefent reign , obferve , that " walking the streets of Edinburgh at " night was pretty perilous , and a good deal " odoriferous ...
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... Edinburgh at that time , dined in the interval between the forenoon and afternoon fervice , which was then later than now ; fo we had not the pleasure of his company till dinner was over , when he came and drank wine with us . then ...
... Edinburgh at that time , dined in the interval between the forenoon and afternoon fervice , which was then later than now ; fo we had not the pleasure of his company till dinner was over , when he came and drank wine with us . then ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.