The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 6Cowie, 1825 |
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Page 34
... scenes of adventures , stratagems , surprises , and escapes . Mountainous countries are not passed but with diffi- culty , not merely from the labour of climbing ; for to climb is not always necessary : but because that which is not ...
... scenes of adventures , stratagems , surprises , and escapes . Mountainous countries are not passed but with diffi- culty , not merely from the labour of climbing ; for to climb is not always necessary : but because that which is not ...
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... scenes of human existence . As the day advanced towards noon , we entered a narrow valley not very flowery , but sufficiently verdant . Our guides told us , that the horses could not travel all day without rest or meat , and entreated ...
... scenes of human existence . As the day advanced towards noon , we entered a narrow valley not very flowery , but sufficiently verdant . Our guides told us , that the horses could not travel all day without rest or meat , and entreated ...
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... scenes , as it obtains in real life : almost all remarkable events have evil for their basis ; and are either miseries in- curred , or miseries escaped . Our sense is so much stronger of what we suffer , than of what we enjoy , that the ...
... scenes , as it obtains in real life : almost all remarkable events have evil for their basis ; and are either miseries in- curred , or miseries escaped . Our sense is so much stronger of what we suffer , than of what we enjoy , that the ...
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... scene of an action , much celebrated in the traditional history of Col , but which pro- bably no two relaters will tell alike . Some time , in the obscure ages , Macneil of Barra mar- ried the lady Maclean , who had the isle of Col for ...
... scene of an action , much celebrated in the traditional history of Col , but which pro- bably no two relaters will tell alike . Some time , in the obscure ages , Macneil of Barra mar- ried the lady Maclean , who had the isle of Col for ...
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... scene that strikes the imagination more than this little desert in these depths of western obscurity , occupied not by a gross herdsman , or amphibious fisherman , but by a gentleman and two ladies , of high birth , polished manners ...
... scene that strikes the imagination more than this little desert in these depths of western obscurity , occupied not by a gross herdsman , or amphibious fisherman , but by a gentleman and two ladies , of high birth , polished manners ...
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