The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Henry Baldwin, 1786 - 442 strani |
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... ( faid I , ) it is commonly thought that our veal in Scotland is not good . But here is fome which I believe you will like . " - There was no catch- ing him.Johnson . " Why , fir , what is com- monly thought , I should take to be true ...
... ( faid I , ) it is commonly thought that our veal in Scotland is not good . But here is fome which I believe you will like . " - There was no catch- ing him.Johnson . " Why , fir , what is com- monly thought , I should take to be true ...
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... ( faid he ) like maids round a May - pole . " - I told him , I had found out a perfect definition of human nature , as distinguished from the animal . An ancient philofopher faid , Man was " a two- legged animal without feathers , " upon ...
... ( faid he ) like maids round a May - pole . " - I told him , I had found out a perfect definition of human nature , as distinguished from the animal . An ancient philofopher faid , Man was " a two- legged animal without feathers , " upon ...
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... faid , he believed Burke was intended for the law ; but either had not money enough to follow it , or had not diligence enough . He faid , he could not understand how a man could apply to one thing , and not to another . Robertfon faid ...
... faid , he believed Burke was intended for the law ; but either had not money enough to follow it , or had not diligence enough . He faid , he could not understand how a man could apply to one thing , and not to another . Robertfon faid ...
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... faid , a certain eminent political friend of our's was wrong , in his maxim of sticking to a certain fet of men on all oc- cafions . " I can fee that a man may do right to ftick to a party ( faid he ) ; that is to fay , he is a Whig ...
... faid , a certain eminent political friend of our's was wrong , in his maxim of sticking to a certain fet of men on all oc- cafions . " I can fee that a man may do right to ftick to a party ( faid he ) ; that is to fay , he is a Whig ...
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... faid to this lady , What foolish talking have we had ! ' - Yes , ( faid fhe , ) but while they talked , you faid nothing .'- I was struck with the reproof . How much better is the man who does any thing that is innocent , than he who ...
... faid to this lady , What foolish talking have we had ! ' - Yes , ( faid fhe , ) but while they talked , you faid nothing .'- I was struck with the reproof . How much better is the man who does any thing that is innocent , than he who ...
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Stran 101 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Stran 19 - 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 353 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Stran 37 - 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 48 - 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 342 - 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 from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Stran 317 - Its merits had not escaped the notice of Dr. Johnson, though in politics opposed to much it inculcates, for in reply to an observation of Boswell in praise of the French Ana, he said, ' A few of them are good, but we have one book of that kind better than any of them — Selden's Table Talk.
Stran 15 - There must always be some advantage, on one side or other; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents, than by chance. If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.
Stran 7 - He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvellous and the mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence with jealousy.
Stran 173 - 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.