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I hope every reader will rejoice that this cargo of sacrilege was lost at sea . Let us
not , however , make too much haste to despise our neighbours . Our own
cathedrals are mouldering by unregarded dilapidation . It seems to be part of the
...
I hope every reader will rejoice that this cargo of sacrilege was lost at sea . Let us
not , however , make too much haste to despise our neighbours . Our own
cathedrals are mouldering by unregarded dilapidation . It seems to be part of the
...
Page 81
To be told that any man has attained a hundred years , gives hope and comfort to
him who stands trembling on the brink of his own climacterick . Length of life is
distributed impartially to very different modes of life in very different climates ; and
...
To be told that any man has attained a hundred years , gives hope and comfort to
him who stands trembling on the brink of his own climacterick . Length of life is
distributed impartially to very different modes of life in very different climates ; and
...
Page 90
In all greater questions , however , there is now happily an end to all fear or hope
from malice or from favour . The roads are secure in those places through which ,
forty years ago , no traveller could pass without a convoy . All trials of right by ...
In all greater questions , however , there is now happily an end to all fear or hope
from malice or from favour . The roads are secure in those places through which ,
forty years ago , no traveller could pass without a convoy . All trials of right by ...
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He had intended to lodge us , for that night , with a gentleman that lived upon the
coast , but discovered on the way , that he then lay in bed without hope of life .
We resolved not to embarrass a family , in a time of so much sorrow , if any other
...
He had intended to lodge us , for that night , with a gentleman that lived upon the
coast , but discovered on the way , that he then lay in bed without hope of life .
We resolved not to embarrass a family , in a time of so much sorrow , if any other
...
Page 140
ligious distinction , and invited us to partake in his acts of domestick worship ;
which I hope neither Mr. Boswell nor myself will be suspected of a disposition to
refuse . The elder of the ladies read the English service . Inch Kenneth was once
a ...
ligious distinction , and invited us to partake in his acts of domestick worship ;
which I hope neither Mr. Boswell nor myself will be suspected of a disposition to
refuse . The elder of the ladies read the English service . Inch Kenneth was once
a ...
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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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