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Page 34
... to contemplate the appearance and properties of mountainous regions , such
as have been , in many countries , the last shelters of national distress , and are
every where the scenes of adventures , stratagems , surprises , and escapes .
... to contemplate the appearance and properties of mountainous regions , such
as have been , in many countries , the last shelters of national distress , and are
every where the scenes of adventures , stratagems , surprises , and escapes .
Page 36
Regions mountainous and wild , thinly inhabited , and little cultivated , make a
great part of the earth , and he that has never seen them , must live unacquainted
with much of the face of nature , and with one of the great scenes of human ...
Regions mountainous and wild , thinly inhabited , and little cultivated , make a
great part of the earth , and he that has never seen them , must live unacquainted
with much of the face of nature , and with one of the great scenes of human ...
Page 104
Good seems to have the same proportion in those visionary scenes , as it obtains
in real life : almost all remarkable events have evil for their basis ; and are either
miseries incurred , or miseries escaped . Our sense is so much stronger of what ...
Good seems to have the same proportion in those visionary scenes , as it obtains
in real life : almost all remarkable events have evil for their basis ; and are either
miseries incurred , or miseries escaped . Our sense is so much stronger of what ...
Page 118
The house of Grišsipol stands by a brook very clear and quick ; which is , I
suppose , one of the most copious streams in the island . This place was the
scene of an action , much celebrated in the traditional history of Col , but which
probably no ...
The house of Grišsipol stands by a brook very clear and quick ; which is , I
suppose , one of the most copious streams in the island . This place was the
scene of an action , much celebrated in the traditional history of Col , but which
probably no ...
Page 139
Romance does not often exhibit a 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
...
Romance does not often exhibit a 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
...
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| Title | The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 6 The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | Robert Lynam |
| Publisher | G. Cowie, 1825 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 17 Sep 2009 |
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