The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Henry Baldwin, 1785 - 524 strani |
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Stran 98
... Laird of Coll . He gave me a letter to young Coll . I was weary of this day , and began to think wifhfully of being again in motion . I was uneafy to think myself too fastidious , whilst I fancied Dr. Johnfon quite fatisfied . But he ...
... Laird of Coll . He gave me a letter to young Coll . I was weary of this day , and began to think wifhfully of being again in motion . I was uneafy to think myself too fastidious , whilst I fancied Dr. Johnfon quite fatisfied . But he ...
Stran 123
... Laird of Auchinleck ! We got to Fores at night , and found an admirable inn , in which Dr. Johnson was pleased to meet with a landlord who ftyled him- felf " Wine - Cooper , from LONDON . " Friday , 27th Auguft . It was dark when we ...
... Laird of Auchinleck ! We got to Fores at night , and found an admirable inn , in which Dr. Johnson was pleased to meet with a landlord who ftyled him- felf " Wine - Cooper , from LONDON . " Friday , 27th Auguft . It was dark when we ...
Stran 150
... laird of Glenmorison , and the laird to go to America . M'Queen very gene- rously answered , he should be forry for it ; for the laird could not shift for himself in America as he could do . I talked of the officers whom we had left to ...
... laird of Glenmorison , and the laird to go to America . M'Queen very gene- rously answered , he should be forry for it ; for the laird could not shift for himself in America as he could do . I talked of the officers whom we had left to ...
Stran 154
... Laird of Glenmorifon does not hinder any body to do . Few , indeed , can do them harm . We had him to breakfast with us . We got away about eight . M'Queen walked fome miles to give us a convoy . He had , in 1745 , joined the Highland ...
... Laird of Glenmorifon does not hinder any body to do . Few , indeed , can do them harm . We had him to breakfast with us . We got away about eight . M'Queen walked fome miles to give us a convoy . He had , in 1745 , joined the Highland ...
Stran 156
... Laird of Macleod in Glenelg , run along with us to - day . He was a very obliging fel- low . At Auchnafheal , we fat down on a green turf feat at the end of a houfe ; they brought us out . two wooden difhes of milk , which we tafted ...
... Laird of Macleod in Glenelg , run along with us to - day . He was a very obliging fel- low . At Auchnafheal , we fat down on a green turf feat at the end of a houfe ; they brought us out . two wooden difhes of milk , which we tafted ...
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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides With Samuel Johnson, LL.D. James Boswell Omejen predogled - 1780 |
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Stran 23 - Upon the whole, I have always considered him, both in his lifetime and since his death, as approaching as nearly to the idea of a perfectly wise and virtuous man, as perhaps the nature of human frailty will permit.
Stran 418 - 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...
Stran 318 - This he said with good-humored English pleasantry. Soon afterwards, Corrichatachin, Col, and other friends assembled round my bed. Corri had a brandy bottle and glass with him, and insisted I should take a dram. "Ay," said Dr. Johnson, "fill him drunk again. Do it in the morning, that we may laugh at him all day. It is a poor thing for a fellow to get drunk at night, and skulk to bed, and let his friends have no sport.
Stran 56 - We talked of change of manners. Dr. Johnson observed that our drinking less than our ancestors was owing to the change from ale to wine. "I remember," said he, "when all the decent people in Lichfield got drunk every night, and were not the worse thought of.
Stran 318 - Prayer-book, I opened it at the twentieth Sunday after Trinity, in the epistle for which I read, " And be not drunk with wine, wherein there is excess.
Stran 156 - 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.
Stran 18 - As it rarely happens that a man is fit to plead his own cause, lawyers are a class of the community who, by study and experience, have acquired the art and power of arranging evidence and of applying to the points at issue what the law has settled. A lawyer is to do for his client all that his client might fairly do for himself if he could.
Stran 273 - 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.
Stran 213 - Tartan waistcoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes, a bluish philibeg, and Tartan hose. He had jet black hair tied behind, and was a large stately man, with a steady sensible countenance.