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... wish was to have passed un- detected ; but since it has been my fortune to fail in my original design , to have the suppositious passages which I have inserted in my quotations made known to the world , and the shade which began to ...
... wish was to have passed un- detected ; but since it has been my fortune to fail in my original design , to have the suppositious passages which I have inserted in my quotations made known to the world , and the shade which began to ...
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... promp- ted to another performance , let him consider whether he is about to disburthen his mind , or employ his fin- gers ; and if I might venture to offer him a subject , I should wish that he would solve this question , Why 28 REVIEW OF ...
... promp- ted to another performance , let him consider whether he is about to disburthen his mind , or employ his fin- gers ; and if I might venture to offer him a subject , I should wish that he would solve this question , Why 28 REVIEW OF ...
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Samuel Johnson. should wish that he would solve this question , Why he that has nothing to write , should desire to be a writer ? Yet is not this Letter without some sentiments , which , though not new , are of great importance , and may ...
Samuel Johnson. should wish that he would solve this question , Why he that has nothing to write , should desire to be a writer ? Yet is not this Letter without some sentiments , which , though not new , are of great importance , and may ...
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... wish that I shall find nothing to blame in the succeeding part . He offers a criterion of action , on account of virtue and vice , for which I have often contended , and which must be embraced by all who are willing to know why they act ...
... wish that I shall find nothing to blame in the succeeding part . He offers a criterion of action , on account of virtue and vice , for which I have often contended , and which must be embraced by all who are willing to know why they act ...
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... wishes he had been there , for he loves wine and venison , and is re- solved as long as he lives to be against the govern- ment . The petition is then handed from town to town , and from house to house , and wherever it comes the ...
... wishes he had been there , for he loves wine and venison , and is re- solved as long as he lives to be against the govern- ment . The petition is then handed from town to town , and from house to house , and wherever it comes the ...
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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.