The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.: Containing essays, tracts, and JourneyJ. Haddon, 1820 |
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... claim to credit , and may perhaps be shown , by resistless evidence , to be better founded . It is related , by steady and uncontroverted tradi- tion , that the Paradise Lost was at first a Tra- gedy , and therefore , amongst tragedies ...
... claim to credit , and may perhaps be shown , by resistless evidence , to be better founded . It is related , by steady and uncontroverted tradi- tion , that the Paradise Lost was at first a Tra- gedy , and therefore , amongst tragedies ...
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... claim some kind of superiority to every other nation of the earth ; that poet , whose works may possibly be read when every other monument of British greatness shall be obliterated ; to reward him , not with pictures , or with medals ...
... claim some kind of superiority to every other nation of the earth ; that poet , whose works may possibly be read when every other monument of British greatness shall be obliterated ; to reward him , not with pictures , or with medals ...
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... claim or merit on our part . But was it an evil ever so great , it could not be remedied but by one much greater , which is by living for ever ; by which means our wick- edness , unrestrained by the prospect of a future state , would ...
... claim or merit on our part . But was it an evil ever so great , it could not be remedied but by one much greater , which is by living for ever ; by which means our wick- edness , unrestrained by the prospect of a future state , would ...
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... claim no reward for self - preservation ; as suicide deserves punishment and infamy , but a man deserves no re- ward or honours for not being guilty of it . This I take to be the meaning of all those passages in our Scripture , in which ...
... claim no reward for self - preservation ; as suicide deserves punishment and infamy , but a man deserves no re- ward or honours for not being guilty of it . This I take to be the meaning of all those passages in our Scripture , in which ...
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... the city , has no claim to particular consideration . That a man was in jail for sedition and impiety , would , I believe , have been within memory a suffi- t cient reason why he should not come out of THE FALSE ALARM . 67.
... the city , has no claim to particular consideration . That a man was in jail for sedition and impiety , would , I believe , have been within memory a suffi- t cient reason why he should not come out of THE FALSE ALARM . 67.
Palavras e frases frequentes
Americans ancient appearance authority Boethius Boswell called castle cattle chief claim clan colonies common commonly considered danger desire dignity distance dominion Dunvegan easily elegance endeavoured enemies England English enquire equal Erse Essay evil expected expence Falkland's Island favour Fort Augustus gentleman give greater ground happiness Hebrides highlands honour hope House of Commons human Inch Kenneth inhabitants Inverness king king of Spain labour lady laird land lately less liberty live Loch Macdonald Maclean Macleod ment miles minister mountains Mull nation nature necessary never once opinion Paradise Lost parliament patriot perhaps pleasure Port Egmont produce punishment Raasay reason rich rock Scotland second sight sedition seems sion Sir Allan Slanes Castle sometimes Spaniards stone subordination suffered supposed tacksman taisch tenants thing thought tion told travelled Ulva violence vote whole
Passagens conhecidas
Página 391 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion. To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible.
Página 174 - That they are entitled to life, liberty, and property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign power whatever, a right to dispose of either without their consent.
Página 48 - The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it...
Página 249 - An eye accustomed to flowery pastures and waving harvests is astonished and repelled by this wide extent of hopeless sterility. The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or usefulness, dismissed by nature from her care, and disinherited of her favours, left in its original elemental state, or quickened only with -one sullen power of useless vegetation.
Página 285 - We were entertained with the usual hospitality by Mr. Macdonald, and his lady Flora Macdonald, a name that will be mentioned in history, and, if courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honour.
Página 177 - British parliament, as are, bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation, internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America, without their consent.
Página 176 - That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are, entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
Página 271 - If an epicure could remove by a wish, in quest of sensual gratifications, wherever he had supped he would breakfast in Scotland.
Página 219 - His history is written with elegance and vigour, but his fabulousness and credulity are justly blamed. His fabulousness. if he was the author of the fictions, is a fault for which no apology can be made ; but his credulity may be excused in an age when all men were credulous.
Página 177 - ... we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are, bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members...