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... effects of Mr. Pope's ill - natured criticism . One of these editions in quarto , illustrated with an interpre- tation and notes , after the manner of the classic authors in usum Delphini , was , by the worthy editor , anno 1741 ...
... effects of Mr. Pope's ill - natured criticism . One of these editions in quarto , illustrated with an interpre- tation and notes , after the manner of the classic authors in usum Delphini , was , by the worthy editor , anno 1741 ...
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... effect all possible things . But so little are we acquaint- ed with the whole system of nature , that we know not what are possible , and what are not : but if we may judge from that constant mixture of pain with pleasure , and ...
... effect all possible things . But so little are we acquaint- ed with the whole system of nature , that we know not what are possible , and what are not : but if we may judge from that constant mixture of pain with pleasure , and ...
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... effects . He imagines that as we have not only animals for food , but choose some for our diversion , the same privilege may be allowed to some beings above us , who may deceive , torment , or destroy us for the ends only of their own ...
... effects . He imagines that as we have not only animals for food , but choose some for our diversion , the same privilege may be allowed to some beings above us , who may deceive , torment , or destroy us for the ends only of their own ...
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... effects of the air - pump . To swell a man with tympany is as good sport as to blow a frog . Many a merry bout have these frolic beings at the vicissitudes of an ague , and good sport it is to see a man tumble with an epilep- sy , and ...
... effects of the air - pump . To swell a man with tympany is as good sport as to blow a frog . Many a merry bout have these frolic beings at the vicissitudes of an ague , and good sport it is to see a man tumble with an epilep- sy , and ...
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... effects , is unmean- ing nonsense ; patriotism , which injures mankind in general for the sake of a particular country , is but a more extended selfishness , and really criminal : and all human glory but a mean and ridiculous delusion ...
... effects , is unmean- ing nonsense ; patriotism , which injures mankind in general for the sake of a particular country , is but a more extended selfishness , and really criminal : and all human glory but a mean and ridiculous delusion ...
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Americans ancient appearance authority Boethius Boswell called castle cattle chief claim clan colonies common commonly considered curiosity danger delight dignity distance dominion Dunvegan easily elegance endeavoured enemies England English equal Erse Essay evil expected Falkland's Island favour Fort Augustus gentleman give greater ground happiness Hebrides Hebridians Highlands honour hope house of commons human Inch Kenneth inhabitants inquire Inverness king king of Spain labour laird land lately less liberty live Macdonald Maclean Macleod ment miles minister mountains Mull nation nature necessary ness never once opinion PARADISE LOST parliament passage patriot perhaps pleasure political Port Egmont produce punishment Raasay reason rich rock Scotland second sight sedition seems sir Allan Slanes Castle sometimes Spaniards stone subordination suffered supposed tacksman taisch tenants thing thought tion told travelled Ulva violence vote whole
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Seite 355 - 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.
Seite 114 - The life of a modern soldier is ill represented by heroic fiction. War has means of destruction more formidable than the cannon and the sword. Of the thousands and ten thousands that perished in our late contests with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy ; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction ; pale, torpid, spiritless and helpless ; gasping and groaning, unpitied among men, made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery ; and...
Seite 273 - Whatever is imaged in the wildest tale, if giants, dragons, and enchantment be excepted, would be felt by him, who, wandering in the mountains without a guide, or upon the sea without a pilot, should be carried amidst his terror and uncertainty, to the hospitality and elegance of Raasay or Dunvegan.
Seite 188 - We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties ; an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes ? But let us interrupt awhile this dream of conquest, settlement, and supremacy.
Seite 177 - Those who wrote the Address, though they have shown no great extent or profundity of mind, are yet probably wiser than to believe it: but they have been taught by some master of mischief, how to put in motion the engine of political electricity; to attract by the sounds of Liberty and Property, to repel by those of Popery and Slavery; and to give the great stroke by the name of Boston.
Seite 190 - HAD desired to visit the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, so long, that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally excited ; and was in the autumn of the year 1773 induced to undertake the journey, by finding in Mr. Boswell a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniencies of travel, in countries less hospitable than we have passed.
Seite 230 - Regions mountainous and wild, thinly inhabited, and little cultivated make a great part of the earth, and he that has never seen them must live unacquainted with much of the face of nature and with one of the great scenes of human existence.
Seite 260 - Raasay has little that can detain a traveller, except the laird and his family ; but their power wants no auxiliaries. Such a seat of hospitality, amidst the winds and waters, fills the imagination with a delightful contrariety of images. Without is the rough ocean and the rocky land, the beating billows and the howling storm : within is plenty and elegance, beauty and gaiety, the song and the dance.
Seite 114 - It is wonderful with what coolness and indifference the greater part of mankind see war commenced. Those that hear of it at a distance or read of it in books, but have never presented its evils to their minds, consider it as little more than a splendid game, a proclamation, an army, a battle, and a triumph.
Seite 194 - ... necessity there is reason to complain. It is surely not without just reproach, that a nation, of which the commerce is hourly extending, and the wealth increasing, denies any participation of its prosperity to its literary societies ; and while its merchants or its nobles are raising palaces, suffers its Universities to moulder into dust.