The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.Inskeep and Bradford, 1810 - 414 páginas |
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... Stones : there would be bad going bare- footed there . The Lairds , however , did it . " - I bought some speldings , fish ( generally whitings salted and dried in a particular manner , being dipped in the sea and dried in the sun , and ...
... Stones : there would be bad going bare- footed there . The Lairds , however , did it . " - I bought some speldings , fish ( generally whitings salted and dried in a particular manner , being dipped in the sea and dried in the sun , and ...
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... stones at birds . There may be relaxation , but there should be no levity . " We went and saw Colonel Nairne's garden and grotto . Here was a fine old plane tree . Unluckily the colonel said , there was but this and another large tree ...
... stones at birds . There may be relaxation , but there should be no levity . " We went and saw Colonel Nairne's garden and grotto . Here was a fine old plane tree . Unluckily the colonel said , there was but this and another large tree ...
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... stones set up on end , with a long one laid upon them , as was usual , and one stone at a little distance from them . That stone was the capital one of the circle which surrounded what now remains . Mr. Fraser was very hospitable ...
... stones set up on end , with a long one laid upon them , as was usual , and one stone at a little distance from them . That stone was the capital one of the circle which surrounded what now remains . Mr. Fraser was very hospitable ...
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... stones . Dr. John- son justly observed , that , " to go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing , for there is neither art nor power in it ; and seeing one is quite enough . " It was a delightful day . Lochness ...
... stones . Dr. John- son justly observed , that , " to go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing , for there is neither art nor power in it ; and seeing one is quite enough . " It was a delightful day . Lochness ...
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... stones like the ruins of the foundations of old buildings . We saw also three Cairns of considerable size . About a mile beyond Broadfoot , is Corrichata- chin , a farm of Sir Alexander Macdonald's , possessed by Mr. McKinnon , * who ...
... stones like the ruins of the foundations of old buildings . We saw also three Cairns of considerable size . About a mile beyond Broadfoot , is Corrichata- chin , a farm of Sir Alexander Macdonald's , possessed by Mr. McKinnon , * who ...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides: With Samuel Johnson, LL.D. By James ... James Boswell Visualização integral - 1785 |
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides: With Samuel Johnson, LL.D. By James ... James Boswell Visualização integral - 1785 |
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Página 322 - 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 from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground •which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Página 332 - ... 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, B,y forms...
Página 186 - Had Jesus Christ delivered no other declaration than the following : ' 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...
Página 24 - 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.
Página 194 - I have all my life long been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
Página 348 - Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know that a man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice...
Página 83 - Sir Joshua Reynolds, sir, is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel, you would find the most difficulty how to abuse.
Página 186 - ... constitutional Blackstone wisely rests on the solid footing of authority. " Our ancestors having most indisputably a competent jurisdiction to decide this great and important question, and having, in fact, decided it, it is now become our duty, at this distance of time, to acquiesce in their determination.
Página 121 - The day was calm, the air was soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. 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 34 - The teeming mother anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face: Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king.