The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel JohnsonT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 - 460 páginas |
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... October 1. Dr. Johnson not answerable for all the words in his Dictionary . Attacks on authours useful to them . Return to Armidale .... .... 279 October 2. Old manners of great families in Wales . German courts . Goldsmith's love of ...
... October 1. Dr. Johnson not answerable for all the words in his Dictionary . Attacks on authours useful to them . Return to Armidale .... .... 279 October 2. Old manners of great families in Wales . German courts . Goldsmith's love of ...
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... October 11. London and Pekin compared . Dr. Johnson's high opinion of the former .. October 12. Return to Mr. M'Sweyn's . Other supersti- tions beside those connected with religion . Dr. John- son disgusted with coarse manners . His ...
... October 11. London and Pekin compared . Dr. Johnson's high opinion of the former .. October 12. Return to Mr. M'Sweyn's . Other supersti- tions beside those connected with religion . Dr. John- son disgusted with coarse manners . His ...
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... October 19. Death of young Col. Dr. Johnson slow of belief without strong evidence . La Credulité des Incredules . Coast of Mull . Nun's Island . Past scenes pleasing in recollection . kill ..... October 20 . Land on Icolm- 342 Sketch ...
... October 19. Death of young Col. Dr. Johnson slow of belief without strong evidence . La Credulité des Incredules . Coast of Mull . Nun's Island . Past scenes pleasing in recollection . kill ..... October 20 . Land on Icolm- 342 Sketch ...
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... October 28. Dr. Smollet's Epitaph . Dr. Johnson's won- derful memory . His alacrity during the Tour . Arrive at Glasgow .... ... 381 October 29. Glasgow surveyed . Attention of the profes- sors to Dr. Johnson ... October 30 . November 1 ...
... October 28. Dr. Smollet's Epitaph . Dr. Johnson's won- derful memory . His alacrity during the Tour . Arrive at Glasgow .... ... 381 October 29. Glasgow surveyed . Attention of the profes- sors to Dr. Johnson ... October 30 . November 1 ...
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... October . M'Aulay's calculation , we were not to land in Lorn till the 20th of September . I thought that the interruptions by bad days , or by occasional excursions , might make it ten days later ; and I. thought too , that we might ...
... October . M'Aulay's calculation , we were not to land in Lorn till the 20th of September . I thought that the interruptions by bad days , or by occasional excursions , might make it ten days later ; and I. thought too , that we might ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Aberdeen afterwards ancient appearance asked Auchinleck believe better boat BOSWELL breakfast called castle church conversation 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 kind Kingsburgh knew Lady Laird laughed Lawrence Kirk learning lived Lochbuy looked Lord Lord Monboddo lordship M'Aulay M'Lean M'Leod M'Queen main land manner mentioned miles mind Monboddo morning Mull never night obliged observed OCTOBER opinion pleased Portree pretty Principal Robertson publick Rasay recollect remarkable sail Samuel Johnson Scotland servant shew shewn shore Sir Allan stone suppose Talisker talked tell thing thought Thrale tion Tobermorie told took Ulva vessel walked Whig wind wish write young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 28 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition ; and how a man can write at one time, and not at another. ' Nay, (said Dr. Johnson,) a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly* to it.
Página 117 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty,* frieze, Buttress, nor coign* of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt...
Página 9 - He was afflicted with a bodily disease which made him often restless and fretful; and with a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking.
Página 42 - Then, sir, let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 67 - But in the course of general history, we find manners. In wars, we see the dispositions of people, their degrees of humanity, and other particulars.
Página 232 - In the last age, when my mother lived in London, there were two sets of people, those who gave the wall, and those who took it ; the peaceable and the quarrelsome. When...
Página 225 - 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. If you find the same language in distant countries, you may be sure that the inhabitants of each have been the same people ; that is to say, if you find the languages a good deal the same ; for a word here and there being the same, will not do. Thus Butler, in his 'Hudibras...