The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.T. Cadwell and W. Davies, 1807 - 460 pages |
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... knew that , if he were once launched from the metropolis he would go forward very well ; and I got our common friends there to assist in setting him afloat . To Mrs. Thrale in particular , whose enchantment over him seldom failed , I ...
... knew that , if he were once launched from the metropolis he would go forward very well ; and I got our common friends there to assist in setting him afloat . To Mrs. Thrale in particular , whose enchantment over him seldom failed , I ...
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... us all , in a narrow country filled with jarring interests and keen parties ; and , though I well knew his opinion to be the same with my own , he kept himself aloof at a very critical period indeed , when the Douglas 16 JOURNAL OF A TOUR.
... us all , in a narrow country filled with jarring interests and keen parties ; and , though I well knew his opinion to be the same with my own , he kept himself aloof at a very critical period indeed , when the Douglas 16 JOURNAL OF A TOUR.
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... knew himself to be dying , which I may some time or other communicate to the world . I shall not , however , extol him so very highly as Dr. Adam Smith does , who says , in a letter to Mr. Strahan the Printer ( not a confidential letter ...
... knew himself to be dying , which I may some time or other communicate to the world . I shall not , however , extol him so very highly as Dr. Adam Smith does , who says , in a letter to Mr. Strahan the Printer ( not a confidential letter ...
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... knew him before he began to be better than other people ( smiling ; ) that he believed he sin- cerely meant well , but had a mixture of politicks and ostentation : whereas Wesley thought of religion only * .- ROBERTSON said , Whitefield ...
... knew him before he began to be better than other people ( smiling ; ) that he believed he sin- cerely meant well , but had a mixture of politicks and ostentation : whereas Wesley thought of religion only * .- ROBERTSON said , Whitefield ...
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... who was not only an excellent officer , but one of the most universal scholars I ever * [ See the Life of Dr. Johnson , vol . ii . p . 333 , 5th Edition . ] knew , had learned the Erse language , and expressed 32 JOURNAL OF A TOUR.
... who was not only an excellent officer , but one of the most universal scholars I ever * [ See the Life of Dr. Johnson , vol . ii . p . 333 , 5th Edition . ] knew , had learned the Erse language , and expressed 32 JOURNAL OF A TOUR.
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Page 103 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Page 357 - Stern o'er each bosom Reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by ; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, By forms...
Page 18 - 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 26 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Page 200 - The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth: they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation ;" — he had pronounced a message of inestimable importance, and well worthy of that splendid apparatus of prophecy and miracles with which his mission was introduced, and attested ; a message in which the wisest of mankind would rejoice to find an answer to their doubts, and...
Page 87 - Johnson, upon all occasions, expressed his approbation of enforcing instruction by means of the rod. "I would rather [said he] have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus, or thus, you will be more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of superiority, you lay the...
Page 105 - Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound. All at her work the village maiden sings ; Nor, while she turns the giddy wheel around Revolves the sad vicissitude of things.
Page 403 - I believe, Sir, you have a great many. Norway, too, has noble wild prospects , and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, Sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England' !' This unexpected and pointed sally produced a roar of applause.
Page 129 - No, sir. It would be called so in a book ; and when a man comes to look at it, he sees it is not so. It is indeed pointed at the top; but one side of it is larger than the other.
Page 244 - M'Pherson's Ossian to be more like the original than Pope's Homer. JOHNSON. " Well, sir, this is just what I always maintained. He has found names, and stories, and phrases, nay passages in old songs, and with them has blended his own compositions, and so made what he gives to the world as the translation of an ancient poem...