The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Henry Baldwin, 1785 - 524 páginas |
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... in Britain , where he has now lived many years the object of Royal regard and pri- vate refpect ; and whom I cannot name without expreffing my very grateful sense of of the uniform kindness which he has been pleased to [ ▽ ]
... in Britain , where he has now lived many years the object of Royal regard and pri- vate refpect ; and whom I cannot name without expreffing my very grateful sense of of the uniform kindness which he has been pleased to [ ▽ ]
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... lived in it magnificently . His own ample fortune , with the addition of his falary , enabled him to be fplendidly hofpitable . It may be fortunate for an individual amongst qurfelves to be Lord Chief Baron ; and a moft worthy man now ...
... lived in it magnificently . His own ample fortune , with the addition of his falary , enabled him to be fplendidly hofpitable . It may be fortunate for an individual amongst qurfelves to be Lord Chief Baron ; and a moft worthy man now ...
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... lived on good terms with Mr. Hume , though I have frankly told him , I was not clear that it was right in me to keep company with him . " But ( faid I ) how much better are you than your books ! " C3 books ! " He was cheerful , obliging ...
... lived on good terms with Mr. Hume , though I have frankly told him , I was not clear that it was right in me to keep company with him . " But ( faid I ) how much better are you than your books ! " C3 books ! " He was cheerful , obliging ...
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James Boswell. He told us of Cooke , who tranflated Hefiod , and lived twenty years on a translation of Plautus , for which he was always taking fub- fcriptions ; and that he prefented Foote to a Club , in the following fingular manner ...
James Boswell. He told us of Cooke , who tranflated Hefiod , and lived twenty years on a translation of Plautus , for which he was always taking fub- fcriptions ; and that he prefented Foote to a Club , in the following fingular manner ...
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... lived , and in which David Rizzio was murdered ; and also the State Rooms . Dr. Johnson was a great reciter of all forts of things serious or comical . I over heard him repeat- ing here , in a kind of muttering tone , a line of the old ...
... lived , and in which David Rizzio was murdered ; and also the State Rooms . Dr. Johnson was a great reciter of all forts of things serious or comical . I over heard him repeat- ing here , in a kind of muttering tone , a line of the old ...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL. D. James Boswell Visualização integral - 1860 |
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL. D. James Boswell Visualização integral - 1928 |
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Página 23 - 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.
Página 418 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and...
Página 318 - This he said with good-humored English pleasantry. Soon afterwards, Corrichatachin, Col, and other friends assembled round my bed. Corri had a brandy bottle and glass with him, and insisted I should take a dram. "Ay," said Dr. Johnson, "fill him drunk again. Do it in the morning, that we may laugh at him all day. It is a poor thing for a fellow to get drunk at night, and skulk to bed, and let his friends have no sport.
Página 56 - We talked of change of manners. Dr. Johnson observed that our drinking less than our ancestors was owing to the change from ale to wine. "I remember," said he, "when all the decent people in Lichfield got drunk every night, and were not the worse thought of.
Página 318 - Prayer-book, I opened it at the twentieth Sunday after Trinity, in the epistle for which I read, " And be not drunk with wine, wherein there is excess.
Página 156 - Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.
Página 18 - As it rarely happens that a man is fit to plead his own cause, lawyers are a class of the community who, by study and experience, have acquired the art and power of arranging evidence and of applying to the points at issue what the law has settled. A lawyer is to do for his client all that his client might fairly do for himself if he could.
Página 273 - There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.
Página 213 - Tartan waistcoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes, a bluish philibeg, and Tartan hose. He had jet black hair tied behind, and was a large stately man, with a steady sensible countenance.