The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides: With Samuel Johnson, LL.D. By James Boswell, ...Henry Baldwin, 1785 - 524 pages |
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... fhould go together , and vifit the Hebrides . Martin's Account of those islands had impreffed us with a notion that we might there contemplate a system of life almost totally different from what we had been accustomed to fee ; and , to ...
... fhould go together , and vifit the Hebrides . Martin's Account of those islands had impreffed us with a notion that we might there contemplate a system of life almost totally different from what we had been accustomed to fee ; and , to ...
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... fhould think no liberal minded Scotsman will deny . He was indeed , if I may be allowed the phrase , at bottom much of a John Bull ; much of a blunt true - born Englishman . There was a ftratum of common clay under the rock of marble ...
... fhould think no liberal minded Scotsman will deny . He was indeed , if I may be allowed the phrase , at bottom much of a John Bull ; much of a blunt true - born Englishman . There was a ftratum of common clay under the rock of marble ...
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... fhould have obtained him a magnificent reward from the Eaft - India Company . He fhewed much complacency , upon finding that the miftrefs of the houfe was fo attentive to his fin- gular habit ; and as no man could be more po- lite when ...
... fhould have obtained him a magnificent reward from the Eaft - India Company . He fhewed much complacency , upon finding that the miftrefs of the houfe was fo attentive to his fin- gular habit ; and as no man could be more po- lite when ...
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... fhould have five hundred pounds of additional fortune . We talked of the practice of the law . Sir William Forbes faid , he thought an honeft lawyer should never undertake a caufe which he was fatisfied was not a juft one . " Sir ( faid ...
... fhould have five hundred pounds of additional fortune . We talked of the practice of the law . Sir William Forbes faid , he thought an honeft lawyer should never undertake a caufe which he was fatisfied was not a juft one . " Sir ( faid ...
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... fhould be filled by gen- tlemen of diftinction from the fouth fide of the Tweed , as we have the benefit of promotion in England . Such an interchange would make a beneficial mixture of manners , and render our union more complete ...
... fhould be filled by gen- tlemen of diftinction from the fouth fide of the Tweed , as we have the benefit of promotion in England . Such an interchange would make a beneficial mixture of manners , and render our union more complete ...
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