Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL. D., 1773McGraw-Hill, 1961 - 520 pages |
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Page 34
... pretty the Frith of Forth looked ; as indeed , after the prospect from Constantinople , of which I have been told , and that from Naples , which I have seen , I believe the view of that Frith and its environs from the Castle Hill of ...
... pretty the Frith of Forth looked ; as indeed , after the prospect from Constantinople , of which I have been told , and that from Naples , which I have seen , I believe the view of that Frith and its environs from the Castle Hill of ...
Page 144
... pretty high eminence and so down to the shore on the west , in pretty much the same direction with the crosses . Raasay took them to be the marks for the asylum . But Malcolm thought them to be false sentinels , a common de- ception ...
... pretty high eminence and so down to the shore on the west , in pretty much the same direction with the crosses . Raasay took them to be the marks for the asylum . But Malcolm thought them to be false sentinels , a common de- ception ...
Page 363
... pretty well done , and showed him a particular epigram , I think of ten , but am cer- tain of eight , lines . He read it , and tossed away the book , say- ing , " No , it is not pretty well . " As I persisted in my opinion , he said ...
... pretty well done , and showed him a particular epigram , I think of ten , but am cer- tain of eight , lines . He read it , and tossed away the book , say- ing , " No , it is not pretty well . " As I persisted in my opinion , he said ...
Contents
APPENDIX Correspondence between Boswell and Lord Elibank | 405 |
TOPOGRAPHICAL SUPPLEMENT | 452 |
INDEX | 489 |
Copyright | |
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