The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel JohnsonT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 - 460 strani |
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... stone and water , and a little earth . Turkish Spy . Dreary ride to Lochbuy . Descrip- tion of the laird October 22 . 351 Sail to .... 355 Uncommon breakfast offered to Dr. John- son , and rejected . Lochbuy's war - saddle . Oban ...
... stone and water , and a little earth . Turkish Spy . Dreary ride to Lochbuy . Descrip- tion of the laird October 22 . 351 Sail to .... 355 Uncommon breakfast offered to Dr. John- son , and rejected . Lochbuy's war - saddle . Oban ...
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... so , when they had as much land as your family has now . Yet Auchinleck is the Field of Stones ; there would be bad going bare - footed there . " The Lairds , how- ever , did it . " - I bought some 42 JOURNAL OF A TOUR.
... so , when they had as much land as your family has now . Yet Auchinleck is the Field of Stones ; there would be bad going bare - footed there . " The Lairds , how- ever , did it . " - I bought some 42 JOURNAL OF A TOUR.
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... stones at birds . There may be relaxation , but there should be no levity . " We went and saw Colonel Nairne's garden and grotto . Here was a fine old plane tree . Unluckily the Colonel said , there was but this and another large tree ...
... stones at birds . There may be relaxation , but there should be no levity . " We went and saw Colonel Nairne's garden and grotto . Here was a fine old plane tree . Unluckily the Colonel said , there was but this and another large tree ...
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... stone ; for , instead of the * There were several points of similarity between them ; learning , clearness of head , precision of speech , and a love of research on many subjects which people in general do not investigate . Foote paid ...
... stone ; for , instead of the * There were several points of similarity between them ; learning , clearness of head , precision of speech , and a love of research on many subjects which people in general do not investigate . Foote paid ...
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... stone . Dr. Johnson observed , they thatched well here . D I was a little acquainted with Mr. Forbes , the minister of the parish . I sent to inform him that a gentleman desired to see him . He returned for answer , " that he would not ...
... stone . Dr. Johnson observed , they thatched well here . D I was a little acquainted with Mr. Forbes , the minister of the parish . I sent to inform him that a gentleman desired to see him . He returned for answer , " that he would not ...
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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
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Stran 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.
Stran 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...
Stran 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.
Stran 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...
Stran 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.
Stran 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...
Stran 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.
Stran 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...
Stran 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...