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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... person who was the best judge of its truth . I need not tell you I niean Ge- neral Paoli ; who , after his great , though un- preserve the liberties successful , efforts to preserve h of his country , has found an honourable asylum in ...
... person who was the best judge of its truth . I need not tell you I niean Ge- neral Paoli ; who , after his great , though un- preserve the liberties successful , efforts to preserve h of his country , has found an honourable asylum in ...
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... person of taste and knowledge that I have conversed with , it has been greatly heightened ; and I will venture to predict , that this specimen of the colloquial talents and ex- temporaneous effusions of my illustrious fellow - tra ...
... person of taste and knowledge that I have conversed with , it has been greatly heightened ; and I will venture to predict , that this specimen of the colloquial talents and ex- temporaneous effusions of my illustrious fellow - tra ...
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... Persons of consequence watched in London . Learning of the Scots from 1550 to 1650. The arts of civil life little known in Scot- land till the Union . Life of a sailor . The folly of Peter the Great in working in a dock - yard . Ar ...
... Persons of consequence watched in London . Learning of the Scots from 1550 to 1650. The arts of civil life little known in Scot- land till the Union . Life of a sailor . The folly of Peter the Great in working in a dock - yard . Ar ...
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... persons as too hard . Reception of the travellers in their progress . Spence . 318 324 October 16. Miss Maclean . Account of Mull . The value of an oak walking - stick in the Hebrides . Arrive at Mr. M'Quarrie's in Ulva . Captain ...
... persons as too hard . Reception of the travellers in their progress . Spence . 318 324 October 16. Miss Maclean . Account of Mull . The value of an oak walking - stick in the Hebrides . Arrive at Mr. M'Quarrie's in Ulva . Captain ...
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... persons " here who respect him , and some whom I am per- " suaded he will think not unworthy of his esteem . " I wish he would make the experiment . He some- " times cracks his jokes upon us ; but he will find " that we can distinguish ...
... persons " here who respect him , and some whom I am per- " suaded he will think not unworthy of his esteem . " I wish he would make the experiment . He some- " times cracks his jokes upon us ; but he will find " that we can distinguish ...
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afterwards ancient appeared asked Auchinleck believe better boat Boswell breakfast called castle church conversation Court of Session DEAR SIR dined dinner Duke Duke of Argyle Dunvegan Edinburgh England English entertained Erse father Flora Macdonald Garrick gave gentleman give heard Hebrides Highland honour horse humour Icolmkill Inchkenneth Inverary island isle JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson Journal journey Kingsburgh knew Lady Laird learned lived Lochbuy London looked Lord Monboddo M'Aulay M'Lean M'Leod M'Queen Macdonald Macleod main land Malcolm mentioned miles mind Monboddo morning Mull never night obliged observed opinion passed pleased Portree pretty Principal Robertson publick Rasay recollect sail Samuel Johnson Scotland second sight servant shew shewn shore Sir Allan spirit suppose sure Talisker talked tell thing thought tion Tobermorie told took Tour walked Whig wish write young
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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...