Boswell's Life of Johnson, Količina 5Bigelow, Brown & Company, Incorporated, 1786 |
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... stone and Turkish Spy . Dreary ride to Loch- buy . Description of the laird . October 22 . Uncommon breakfast offered to Dr. Johnson , and rejected . Lochbuy's war - saddle . Sail to Oban . October 23. Goldsmith's Traveller . Pope and ...
... stone and Turkish Spy . Dreary ride to Loch- buy . Description of the laird . October 22 . Uncommon breakfast offered to Dr. Johnson , and rejected . Lochbuy's war - saddle . Sail to Oban . October 23. Goldsmith's Traveller . Pope and ...
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... Stones : there would be bad going bare - footed there . The Lairds , however , did it . ' I bought some speldings , fish ( generally whitings ) salted and dried in a particular manner , being dipped in the sea and dried in the sun , and ...
... Stones : there would be bad going bare - footed there . The Lairds , however , did it . ' I bought some speldings , fish ( generally whitings ) salted and dried in a particular manner , being dipped in the sea and dried in the sun , and ...
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... stones at birds . 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 in ...
... stones at birds . 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 in ...
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... stone ' ; for , instead of the verdant thorn to refresh the eye , we found the bare wall or dike intersecting the prospect . He ob- served , that it was wonderful to see a country so divested , so denuded of trees . We stopped at ...
... stone ' ; for , instead of the verdant thorn to refresh the eye , we found the bare wall or dike intersecting the prospect . He ob- served , that it was wonderful to see a country so divested , so denuded of trees . We stopped at ...
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... stone . Dr. Johnson observed , they thatched well here . 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 . 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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