The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Political tracts. Political essays. Miscellaneous essays. A journey to the western islands of ScotlandJ. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 |
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29. oldal
... feven . Few love their friends fo well as not to defire fuperiority by unexpensive benefaction . Yet , notwithstanding all these motives to com- pliance , the promoters of petitions have not been fuccefsful . Few could be perfuaded to ...
... feven . Few love their friends fo well as not to defire fuperiority by unexpensive benefaction . Yet , notwithstanding all these motives to com- pliance , the promoters of petitions have not been fuccefsful . Few could be perfuaded to ...
42. oldal
... feven hundred miles round , and reprefented it as a region naked indeed of wood , but which , if that defect were fup- plied , would have all that nature , almost all that luxury could want . The harbour he found capaci- ous and fecure ...
... feven hundred miles round , and reprefented it as a region naked indeed of wood , but which , if that defect were fup- plied , would have all that nature , almost all that luxury could want . The harbour he found capaci- ous and fecure ...
47. oldal
... feven cannon , four mortars , and two hundred bombs . The fleet con- fifted of five frigates , from twenty to thirty guns , which were now ftationed oppofite to the Block- house . He then fent them a formal memorial , in which he ...
... feven cannon , four mortars , and two hundred bombs . The fleet con- fifted of five frigates , from twenty to thirty guns , which were now ftationed oppofite to the Block- house . He then fent them a formal memorial , in which he ...
80. oldal
... feven years comes the Sa- turnalian feason , when the freemen of Great Britain may please themfelves with the choice of their re- prefentatives . This happy day has now arrived , fomewhat fooner than it could be claimed . To felect and ...
... feven years comes the Sa- turnalian feason , when the freemen of Great Britain may please themfelves with the choice of their re- prefentatives . This happy day has now arrived , fomewhat fooner than it could be claimed . To felect and ...
125. oldal
... feven years , we infer with Mr. Mauduit , that by this folemn compact , they were , after expiration of the ftipulated term , liable to taxation . When When they apply to our compaffion , by telling us TAXATION NO TYRANNY . 125.
... feven years , we infer with Mr. Mauduit , that by this folemn compact , they were , after expiration of the ftipulated term , liable to taxation . When When they apply to our compaffion , by telling us TAXATION NO TYRANNY . 125.
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204. oldal - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
207. oldal - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
56. oldal - ... 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 were at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean, without notice and without remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless, and enterprise impracticable, fleets...
141. oldal - The time is now come, in which every Englishman expects to be informed of the national affairs ; and in which he has a right to have that expectation gratified. For, whatever may be urged by ministers, or those whom vanity or interest make the followers of ministers, concerning the necessity of confidence in our...
457. oldal - ... it if he had it; but whence could it be had? It is too long to be remembered, and the language formerly had nothing written. He has doubtless inserted names that circulate in popular stories, and may have translated some wandering ballads, if any can be found; and the names, and some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole.
458. oldal - A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth: he will always love it better than inquiry; and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it.
241. oldal - The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it...
357. oldal - Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.
225. oldal - It is a cordial administered by the gracious hand of providence, of which they ought never to be deprived by an ill-judged and improper education.
413. oldal - Length of life is distributed impartially to very different modes of life in very different climates ; and the mountains have no greater examples of age and health than the...