The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 6Cowie, 1825 |
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... remains can hardly exhibit , even to an artist , a suffi- cient specimen . It was demolished , as is well known , in the tumult and violence of Knox's reformation . Not far from the cathedral , on the margin of the water , stands a ...
... remains can hardly exhibit , even to an artist , a suffi- cient specimen . It was demolished , as is well known , in the tumult and violence of Knox's reformation . Not far from the cathedral , on the margin of the water , stands a ...
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... remains of the cathedral . It has the appearance of a town in decay , having been situated , in times when commerce was yet unstudied , with very little attention to the commodiousness of the harbour . New Aberdeen has all the bustle of ...
... remains of the cathedral . It has the appearance of a town in decay , having been situated , in times when commerce was yet unstudied , with very little attention to the commodiousness of the harbour . New Aberdeen has all the bustle of ...
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... it was once magnificent . Its whole plot is easily traced . On the north side of the choir , the chapter - house , which is roofed with an arch of stone , remains entire ; and on the south side c 2 WESTERN ISLANDS , & c . 19.
... it was once magnificent . Its whole plot is easily traced . On the north side of the choir , the chapter - house , which is roofed with an arch of stone , remains entire ; and on the south side c 2 WESTERN ISLANDS , & c . 19.
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With Murphy's Essay Samuel Johnson. stone , remains entire ; and on the south side , another mass of building , which we could not enter , is preserved by the care of the family of Gordon ; but the body of the church is a mass of ...
With Murphy's Essay Samuel Johnson. stone , remains entire ; and on the south side , another mass of building , which we could not enter , is preserved by the care of the family of Gordon ; but the body of the church is a mass of ...
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... remains to be done they will quickly do , and then wonder , like me , why that which was so necessary and so easy was so long delayed . But they must be for ever content to owe to the English that elegance and culture , which , if they ...
... remains to be done they will quickly do , and then wonder , like me , why that which was so necessary and so easy was so long delayed . But they must be for ever content to owe to the English that elegance and culture , which , if they ...
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