The journal of a tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel JohnsonT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 - 460 páginas |
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... Dr. Johnson , on account of the unhappy difference in their politicks , upon my repeating , this passage to him , exclaimed , " Oil of vitriol ! " which have been thought , necessary to human hap- piness B 2 TO THE HEBRIDES .
... Dr. Johnson , on account of the unhappy difference in their politicks , upon my repeating , this passage to him , exclaimed , " Oil of vitriol ! " which have been thought , necessary to human hap- piness B 2 TO THE HEBRIDES .
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James Boswell. which have been thought , necessary to human hap- piness , is he to be surprized if another man comes and laughs at him ? If he is the great man he thinks himself , all this cannot hurt him : it is like throwing pease ...
James Boswell. which have been thought , necessary to human hap- piness , is he to be surprized if another man comes and laughs at him ? If he is the great man he thinks himself , all this cannot hurt him : it is like throwing pease ...
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... thought it necessary or proper , he frequently indulged himself in plea- santry and sportive sallies . He was prone to su- perstition , but not to credulity . Though his ima- gination might incline him to a belief of the mar- vellous ...
... thought it necessary or proper , he frequently indulged himself in plea- santry and sportive sallies . He was prone to su- perstition , but not to credulity . Though his ima- gination might incline him to a belief of the mar- vellous ...
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... thought , that I now had him actually in Caledonia . Mr. Scott's amiable manners , and attachment to our Socrates , at once united me to him . He told me that , before I came in , the Doctor had unluckily had a bad specimen of Scottish ...
... thought , that I now had him actually in Caledonia . Mr. Scott's amiable manners , and attachment to our Socrates , at once united me to him . He told me that , before I came in , the Doctor had unluckily had a bad specimen of Scottish ...
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... thought there was something in it , if there had been for twenty years a neglect to prosecute a crime which was known . He would not allow that a murder , by not being discovered for twenty years , should escape punish- ment . We talked ...
... thought there was something in it , if there had been for twenty years a neglect to prosecute a crime which was known . He would not allow that a murder , by not being discovered for twenty years , should escape punish- ment . We talked ...
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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...