...Johnson's reflection is that it makes a great part of the earth, and that anyone who has never seen it must live unacquainted with much of the face of Nature, and with one of the great scenes of human experience. There he gives us the angle of his view; to travel in wild country does not quicken our...

...only with one sullen power of uselass vegetation. Regions, mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited and little cultivated, make a great part of the earth:...with one of the great scenes of human existence." Among the eloquent paslages which dwell on the memory, the reflection that introduces the account of...

...our ideas of them are "just." Moreover, "regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and litde cultivated, make a great part of the earth, and he...and with one of the great scenes of human existence" (35) . Johnson's own situation now reappears, tonally altered. Amid the "rudeness, silence, and solitude"...

...Johnson was taking in with philosophical measure: 'Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated, make a great part of the earth,...with one of the great scenes of human existence.' One did not so much climb these mountains, he wrote, as traverse them, so that as they went forward...

...enlarge the understanding," by the thought that " regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited and little cultivated, make a great part of the earth....live unacquainted with much of the face of nature." lie will have ideas untested by realities, for " as we see more we become possessed of more certainties,...