The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides. With additions and notes, by J.W. Croker, Količina 21831 |
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Stran 250
... RASAY Taliska nser Sealpa Corichangan Cannal Beinert Gloffeleg For State Armidale Knoidart Rum O Egg Rattakin Anoch F Augustus INVER Loch Ness Moidart Grisspot Breacacha Tobermorie Ulva 19 MULL Inchkenneth Icohnkill Loch Br JURA COLONSA ...
... RASAY Taliska nser Sealpa Corichangan Cannal Beinert Gloffeleg For State Armidale Knoidart Rum O Egg Rattakin Anoch F Augustus INVER Loch Ness Moidart Grisspot Breacacha Tobermorie Ulva 19 MULL Inchkenneth Icohnkill Loch Br JURA COLONSA ...
Stran 344
... Rasay , Col , & c . sign their christian and surnames , as J. Macleod , A. Maclean , & c . The dignity of the judicial bench has consecrated , in the case of the judges , what was once the common practice of the country . - ED . ] 2 ...
... Rasay , Col , & c . sign their christian and surnames , as J. Macleod , A. Maclean , & c . The dignity of the judicial bench has consecrated , in the case of the judges , what was once the common practice of the country . - ED . ] 2 ...
Stran 382
... Rasay , in our way to Dunvegan , the seat of the Laird of Macleod . Being informed that the Rev. Mr. Donald M'Queen was the most intelligent man in Sky , and having been favoured with a letter of introduction to him , by the learned Sir ...
... Rasay , in our way to Dunvegan , the seat of the Laird of Macleod . Being informed that the Rev. Mr. Donald M'Queen was the most intelligent man in Sky , and having been favoured with a letter of introduction to him , by the learned Sir ...
Stran 385
... Rasay : " ODA . " Ponti profundis clausa recessibus , Strepens procellis , rupibus obsita , Quam grata defesso virentem Skia sinum nebulosa pandis . " His cura , credo , sedibus exulat ; His blanda certe pax habitat locis : Non ira ...
... Rasay : " ODA . " Ponti profundis clausa recessibus , Strepens procellis , rupibus obsita , Quam grata defesso virentem Skia sinum nebulosa pandis . " His cura , credo , sedibus exulat ; His blanda certe pax habitat locis : Non ira ...
Stran 387
... Rasay , Boisdale ; and the wives of all of them have the title of ladies . The tacksmen , or principal tenants , are named by their farms , as Kingsburgh , Corrichatachin ; and their wives are called the mistress of Kingsburgh , the ...
... Rasay , Boisdale ; and the wives of all of them have the title of ladies . The tacksmen , or principal tenants , are named by their farms , as Kingsburgh , Corrichatachin ; and their wives are called the mistress of Kingsburgh , the ...
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afterwards ancient answered appeared Ashbourne asked authour believe BENNET LANGTON BOSWELL called character church conversation dear dined dinner doubt Dunvegan Earl Edinburgh England English entertained Erse father favour Flora Macdonald Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy Hebrid Highland honour hope humble servant island James JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson king Kingsburgh lady Laird land Langton late learning letter Lichfield lived London Lord Lord Mansfield Lord Monboddo LUCY PORTER M'Queen Macleod Malcolm manner married mentioned mind Monboddo never night observed occasion opinion perhaps person Piozzi pleased poem Portree prayer Prince Prince Charles probably publick Rasay reason Samuel Johnson Scotland SCOTT seems Shakspeare Sir Alexander Sir Joshua Reynolds spirit suppose sure Talisker talked tell thing thought Thrale tion told Tour wish write wrote young
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Stran 126 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
Stran 257 - He the best player!" cries 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.
Stran 268 - The teeming mother anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face: Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king.
Stran 169 - I collated such copies as I could procure, and wished for more, but have not found the collectors of these rarities very communicative.
Stran 243 - He was steady and inflexible in maintaining the obligations of religion and morality, both from a regard for the order of society, and from a veneration for the Great Source of all order ; correct, nay, stern in his taste ; hard to please, and easily offended ; impetuous and irritable in his temper, but of a most humane and benevolent heart...
Stran 209 - Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale.
Stran 12 - To omit for a year, or for a day, the most efficacious method of advancing Christianity, in compliance with any purposes that terminate on this side of the grave, is a crime of which I know not that the world has yet had an example, except in the practice of the planters of America, a race of mortals whom, I suppose, no other man wishes to resemble.
Stran 161 - Road, and had carried down his books in two returned postchaises. He said he believed the farmer's family thought him an odd character, similar to that in which the Spectator appeared to his landlady and her children : he was the gentleman. Mr. Mickle, the translator of « The Lusiad,' and I went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards. He was not at home; but, having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals scrawled upon the wall...
Stran 208 - Whether indeed we take him as a poet, — as a comic writer, — or as an historian, he stands in the first class." Boswell. " An historian ! my dear Sir, you surely will not rank his compilation of the Roman History, with the works of other historians of this age.
Stran 91 - Why, Sir, it is a very harmless doctrine. They are of opinion that the generality of mankind are neither so obstinately wicked as to deserve everlasting punishment, nor so good as to merit being admitted into the society of blessed spirits ; and therefore that GOD is graciously pleased to allow of a middle state, where they may be purified by certain degrees of suffering. You sec, Sir, there is nothing unreasonable in this.