The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 6Cowie, 1825 |
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... never to have been intended as a place of strength , nor was built to endure a siege , but merely to afford cover to a few soldiers , who perhaps had the charge of a battery , or were stationed to give signals of approach- ing danger ...
... never to have been intended as a place of strength , nor was built to endure a siege , but merely to afford cover to a few soldiers , who perhaps had the charge of a battery , or were stationed to give signals of approach- ing danger ...
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... never very large , and was built with more attention to security than pleasure . Cardinal Beatoun is said to have had workmen employed in im- proving its fortifications , at the time when he was murdered X by the ruffians of reformation ...
... never very large , and was built with more attention to security than pleasure . Cardinal Beatoun is said to have had workmen employed in im- proving its fortifications , at the time when he was murdered X by the ruffians of reformation ...
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... never explored . Their extent we had not time to try ; they are said to serve different purposes . Ladies come hither sometimes in the summer with collations , and smugglers make them storehouses for clandestine merchandize . It is ...
... never explored . Their extent we had not time to try ; they are said to serve different purposes . Ladies come hither sometimes in the summer with collations , and smugglers make them storehouses for clandestine merchandize . It is ...
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... , if he allows himself to wish for fresher air . These diminutive observations seem to take away some- thing from the dignity of writing , and therefore are never communicated but with hesitation , and a little fear of 18 A JOURNEY TO THE.
... , if he allows himself to wish for fresher air . These diminutive observations seem to take away some- thing from the dignity of writing , and therefore are never communicated but with hesitation , and a little fear of 18 A JOURNEY TO THE.
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... never wished to cover them again ; and being thus made useless , they were first neglected , and perhaps , as the stone was wanted , afterwards demolished . Elgin seems a place of little trade , and thinly 20 A JOURNEY TO THE.
... never wished to cover them again ; and being thus made useless , they were first neglected , and perhaps , as the stone was wanted , afterwards demolished . Elgin seems a place of little trade , and thinly 20 A JOURNEY TO THE.
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