The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 6 |
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We left this little island with our thoughts employed a while on the different
appearance that it would have made , if it had been placed at the same distance
from London , with the same facility of approach ; with what emulation of price a
few ...
We left this little island with our thoughts employed a while on the different
appearance that it would have made , if it had been placed at the same distance
from London , with the same facility of approach ; with what emulation of price a
few ...
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The arch of one of the gates is entire , and of another only so far dilapidated as to
diversify the appearance . A square apartment of great loftiness is yet standing ;
its use I could not conjecture , as its elevation was very disproportionate to its ...
The arch of one of the gates is entire , and of another only so far dilapidated as to
diversify the appearance . A square apartment of great loftiness is yet standing ;
its use I could not conjecture , as its elevation was very disproportionate to its ...
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The road from Montrose exhibited a continuation of the same appearances . The
country is still naked , the hedges are of stone , and the fields só generally
ploughed , that it is hard to imagine where grass is found for the horses that till
them .
The road from Montrose exhibited a continuation of the same appearances . The
country is still naked , the hedges are of stone , and the fields só generally
ploughed , that it is hard to imagine where grass is found for the horses that till
them .
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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 prosperous trade , and all ...
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 prosperous trade , and all ...
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It has the appearance of a vast well bordered with a wall . The edge of the Buller
is not wide , and to those that walk round , appears very narrow . He that ventures
to look downward , sees that if his foot should slip , he must fall from his ...
It has the appearance of a vast well bordered with a wall . The edge of the Buller
is not wide , and to those that walk round , appears very narrow . He that ventures
to look downward , sees that if his foot should slip , he must fall from his ...
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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 |
| Publisher | Cowie, 1825 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 17 Sep 2009 |
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