The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 6Cowie, 1825 |
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... desire it . The Scotch universities hold but one term or session in the year . That of St. Andrews continues eight months , that of Aberdeen only five , from the first of November to the first of April . In Aberdeen there is an English ...
... desire it . The Scotch universities hold but one term or session in the year . That of St. Andrews continues eight months , that of Aberdeen only five , from the first of November to the first of April . In Aberdeen there is an English ...
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... desire to continue his memory . Yet what the Romans did to other nations , was in a great degree done by Cromwell to the Scots ; he civilized them by conquest , and introduced by useful violence the arts of peace . I was told at ...
... desire to continue his memory . Yet what the Romans did to other nations , was in a great degree done by Cromwell to the Scots ; he civilized them by conquest , and introduced by useful violence the arts of peace . I was told at ...
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... desire of enjoying in security the more fruitful provinces . As mountaineers are long before they are conquered , they are likewise long before they are civilized . Men are softened by intercourse mutually profitable , and instructed by ...
... desire of enjoying in security the more fruitful provinces . As mountaineers are long before they are conquered , they are likewise long before they are civilized . Men are softened by intercourse mutually profitable , and instructed by ...
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... desire me to suppose , for the manners of mountaineers are commonly savage , but they are rather produced by their situation than derived from their ancestors . Such seems to be the disposition of man , that whatever makes a distinction ...
... desire me to suppose , for the manners of mountaineers are commonly savage , but they are rather produced by their situation than derived from their ancestors . Such seems to be the disposition of man , that whatever makes a distinction ...
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... desire of knowledge , the offence has not the invidiousness of singularity . Edifices , either standing or ruined , are the chief records of an illiterate nation . In some part of this journey , at no great distance from our way , stood ...
... desire of knowledge , the offence has not the invidiousness of singularity . Edifices , either standing or ruined , are the chief records of an illiterate nation . In some part of this journey , at no great distance from our way , stood ...
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