The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Količina 5G. Bell and sons, 1889 |
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... manners - The Union - Value of money - St . Andrew's and John Knox - Retirement from the world - Dinner with the Professors - Question concerning sorrow and content -Instructions for composition - Dr . Johnson's method -Uncertainty of ...
... manners - The Union - Value of money - St . Andrew's and John Knox - Retirement from the world - Dinner with the Professors - Question concerning sorrow and content -Instructions for composition - Dr . Johnson's method -Uncertainty of ...
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... manners - Laziness censured - Landed and traded interests compared - Gratitude considered 21. Description of Dunvegan - Lord Lovat's pyramid - Ride to Ulinish - Phipps's Voyage to the North Pole 22. Subterraneous house and vast cave in ...
... manners - Laziness censured - Landed and traded interests compared - Gratitude considered 21. Description of Dunvegan - Lord Lovat's pyramid - Ride to Ulinish - Phipps's Voyage to the North Pole 22. Subterraneous house and vast cave in ...
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... manners of great families in Wales - German courts -Goldsmith's love of talk - Emigration - Curious story of the people of St. Kilda . 3. Epictetus on the voyage of death - Sail for Mull - A storm - Driven into Col 4 . Dr. Johnson ...
... manners of great families in Wales - German courts -Goldsmith's love of talk - Emigration - Curious story of the people of St. Kilda . 3. Epictetus on the voyage of death - Sail for Mull - A storm - Driven into Col 4 . Dr. Johnson ...
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... manners - His peculiar habits . 263 13 . 14 . Bustle not necessary to despatch - Oats the food not of the Scotch alone • • • 266 267 Arrive in Mull - Addison's Remarks on Italy - Addison not much conversant with Italian literature - The ...
... manners - His peculiar habits . 263 13 . 14 . Bustle not necessary to despatch - Oats the food not of the Scotch alone • • • 266 267 Arrive in Mull - Addison's Remarks on Italy - Addison not much conversant with Italian literature - The ...
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... manner in which Dr. Johnson spent his time from November 12 to November 21- Lord Mansfield - Mr . Richardson - The private life of an English Judge - Dr . Johnson's high opinion of Dr. Robertson and Dr. Blair - Letter from Dr. Blair to ...
... manner in which Dr. Johnson spent his time from November 12 to November 21- Lord Mansfield - Mr . Richardson - The private life of an English Judge - Dr . Johnson's high opinion of Dr. Robertson and Dr. Blair - Letter from Dr. Blair to ...
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Stran 214 - 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.
Stran 353 - GIBBON'S Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Complete and unabridged, with variorum Notes : including those of Guizot, Wenck, Niebuhr, Hugo, Neander, and others. 7 vols. 2 Maps and Portrait.
Stran 359 - HUNTINGDON'S History of the English, from the Roman Invasion to the Accession of Henry II. ; with the Acts of King Stephen, and the Letter to Walter. By T. Forester, MA Frontispiece from an old MS. INGULPH'S Chronicles of the Abbey of Croyland, with the CONTINUATION by Peter of Blois and others. Trans. with Notes by HT Riley, BA KEIGHTLEY'S (Thomas) Fairy Mythology, illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries.
Stran 366 - ENNEMOSER'S History of Magic. Trans, by W. Howitt. With an Appendix of the most remarkable and best authenticated Stories of Apparitions, Dreams, Second Sight, Table-Turning, and SpiritRapping, &c.
Stran 365 - CARPENTER'S (Dr. WB) Zoology. A Systematic View of the Structure, Habits, Instincts, and Uses of the principal Families of the Animal Kingdom, and of the chief Forms of Fossil Remains. Revised by WS Dallas, FLS Numerous Woedcuts. 2 vols. 6s. each. Mechanical Philosophy) Astronomy, and Horology. A Popular Exposition. 181 Woodcuts. CARPENTER'S Works.— Conttmud. Vegetable Physiology and Systematic Botany.
Stran 367 - Comprehending the Chronology and History of the World, from the Earliest Times to the Russian Treaty of Peace, April 1856. By JW Rosse. 800 pages. i«.
Stran 370 - Snow Image, and Other Tales. Scarlet Letter. House with the Seven Gables. Transformation ; or the Marble Fawn. Two Parts. HAZLITT (W.). Table-talk : Essays on Men and Manners. Three Parts. Plain Speaker : Opinions on Books, Men, and Things. Three Parts. Lectures on the English Comic Writers. Lectures on the English Poets.
Stran 358 - HENRY'S (Matthew) Exposition of the Book of Psalms. Numerous Woodcuts. PEARSON (John, DD) Exposition of the Creed. Edit, by E. Walford, MA With Notes, Analysis, and Indexes. PHILO-JUDJEUS, Works of. The Contemporary of Josephus. Trans, by CD Yonge. 4 vols. PHILOSTORGIUS. Ecclesiastical History of. — See Sozomen. SOCRATES
Stran 64 - The whole strange purpose of their lives, to find Or make an enemy of all mankind! Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose.
Stran 359 - FLORENCE OF WORCESTER'S Chronicle, with the Two Continuations : comprising Annals of English History from the Departure of the Romans to the Reign of Edward I. Trans., with Notes, by Thomas Forester, MA GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH.