The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 6Cowie, 1825 |
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... stones had this inscription : " Maria Reg . 1564. " It has probably been neglected from the time that the whole island had the same king . We left this little island with our thoughts employed a while on the different appearance that it ...
... stones had this inscription : " Maria Reg . 1564. " It has probably been neglected from the time that the whole island had the same king . We left this little island with our thoughts employed a while on the different appearance that it ...
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... stones who fancied that he wanted them . The cathedral , of which the foundations may be still traced , and a small part of the wall is standing , appears to have been a spacious and majestic building , not unsuitable to the primacy of ...
... stones who fancied that he wanted them . The cathedral , of which the foundations may be still traced , and a small part of the wall is standing , appears to have been a spacious and majestic building , not unsuitable to the primacy of ...
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... stone . From the bank of the Tweed to St. Andrews I had never seen a single tree , which I did not believe to have grown up far within the present century . Now and then about a gentle- man's house stands a small plantation , which in ...
... stone . From the bank of the Tweed to St. Andrews I had never seen a single tree , which I did not believe to have grown up far within the present century . Now and then about a gentle- man's house stands a small plantation , which in ...
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... stone , and the fields so generally ploughed , that it is hard to imagine where grass is found for the horses that till them . The harvest , which was almost ripe , appeared very plentiful . Early in the afternoon Mr. Boswell observed ...
... stone , and the fields so generally ploughed , that it is hard to imagine where grass is found for the horses that till them . The harvest , which was almost ripe , appeared very plentiful . Early in the afternoon Mr. Boswell observed ...
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... stone , open to the main sea on one side , and parted from the land by a very narrow channel on the other . It has ... stones on one side , or into the water on the other . We how- ever went round , and were glad when the circuit was ...
... stone , open to the main sea on one side , and parted from the land by a very narrow channel on the other . It has ... stones on one side , or into the water on the other . We how- ever went round , and were glad when the circuit was ...
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