The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.: Containing essays, tracts, and JourneyJ. Haddon, 1820 |
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... laird through the whole clan . But they are not com- monly dexterous : their narrowness of life confines them to a few operations , and they are accustomed to endure little wants more than to remove them . We mounted our steeds on the ...
... laird through the whole clan . But they are not com- monly dexterous : their narrowness of life confines them to a few operations , and they are accustomed to endure little wants more than to remove them . We mounted our steeds on the ...
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... laird of Mac- leod passed through their country . The Macraes , as we heard afterwards in the He- brides , were originally an indigent and subordi- nate clan , and having no farms nor stock , were in great numbers servants to the ...
... laird of Mac- leod passed through their country . The Macraes , as we heard afterwards in the He- brides , were originally an indigent and subordi- nate clan , and having no farms nor stock , were in great numbers servants to the ...
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... laird's house , a neat mo- dern fabric , and found Mr Macleod , the proprietor of the island , with many gentlemen , expecting us on the beach . We had , as at all other places , some difficulty in landing . The crags were irregularly ...
... laird's house , a neat mo- dern fabric , and found Mr Macleod , the proprietor of the island , with many gentlemen , expecting us on the beach . We had , as at all other places , some difficulty in landing . The crags were irregularly ...
Página 276
... laird of Raasay . The family of Raasay consists of the laird , the lady , three sons , and ten daughters . For the sons there is a tutor in the house , and the lady is said to be very skilful and diligent in the education of her girls ...
... laird of Raasay . The family of Raasay consists of the laird , the lady , three sons , and ten daughters . For the sons there is a tutor in the house , and the lady is said to be very skilful and diligent in the education of her girls ...
Página 277
... laird has an orchard , and very large forest trees grow about his house . Like other hilly coun- One of the brooks turns tries it has many rivulets . a corn - mill , and at least one produces trouts . In the streams or fresh lakes of ...
... laird has an orchard , and very large forest trees grow about his house . Like other hilly coun- One of the brooks turns tries it has many rivulets . a corn - mill , and at least one produces trouts . In the streams or fresh lakes of ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
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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...