 It was pleafing to fee one of the moft defperate of human calamities capable of fo much help: whatever enlarges hope, will exalt courage ; after having feen the deaf taught arithmetick, who would be afraid to cultivate the Hebrides?  A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland - Page 232by Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 235 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1775 - 280 pages
...fhe noted it with fuch expedition. as feemed. to fhew that fhe had it only to write. It was pleafing to fee one of the moft defpera'te of human calamities...exalt courage ; after having feen the deaf taught arith• metick^ •268* A ;<• :EY, &c. mctick, who we...: bt afraid to cultivate the Hebrides ?... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1775 - 400 pages
...fhe noted it with fuch expedition as feemed to (hew that fhe had it only to write. It was pleafing to fee one of the moft defperate of human calamities capable of fo much help t whatever enlarges hope, will exalt courage ; after having feen the deaf taught arithmetick, who would... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...fhe noted it with fuch expedition as feemed to fhew that fhe had it only to write. It was pleafing to fee one of the moft defperate of human calamities...who would be afraid to cultivate the Hebrides? Such Such are the things which this journey has given me an opportunity of feeing, and fuch are the reflections... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 550 pages
...expedition as feemed to fhew that fhe had it only to write. It was pleafing to fee one of the moft derperate of human calamities capable of fo much help: whatever...who would be afraid to cultivate the Hebrides? Such Such are the things which this journey has given me an opportunity of feeing, and fuch are the refections... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 424 pages
...flie noted it with fuch expedition as feemed to fhow that me had it only to write. It was pleafing to fee one of the moft defperate of human calamities...Hebrides ? Such are the things which this journey has givfcn me an opportunity of feeing, and fuch arc the reflections which that fight has raifed. Having... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 432 pages
...and fhe noted it with fuch expedition as feemed to mow that fhe had it only to write. It was pleafing to fee one of the moft defperate of human calamities...who would be afraid to cultivate the Hebrides ? Such 4i6. A JOURNEY, &c. Such are the things which this journey has givdrt me an opportunity of feeing,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pages
...calamities capable of so much help : whatever enlarges hope, will exalt courage ; after having seen the deaf taught arithmetick, who would be afraid to cultivate the Hebrides ? Such J Such are the things which this journey has given me an opportunity of seeing, and such are the reflections... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 pages
...calamities capable of so much help : whatever enlarges hope, will exalt courage ; after having seen the deaf taught arithmetick, who would be afraid to cultivate the Hebrides ? Such Such are the things which this journey has given me anf opportunity of seeing, and such are the reflections... | |
 | Kristina Straub - 1987 - 260 pages
...speak, read, write, and do "arthimetick": "whatever enlarges hope, will exalt courage; after having seen the deaf taught arithmetick, who would be afraid to cultivate the Hebrides?" (JWI 137). The comparison between cultivating the Hebrides and educating the deaf signals a new level... | |
 | Stuart Sherman - 1996 - 352 pages
...becomes an emblem for the potential of plenitude in a place beset by "vacuity": "after having seen the deaf taught arithmetick, who would be afraid to cultivate the Hebrides?" (137). For Johnson as writer, the Hebrides themselves have already become a site for accomplishments... | |
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