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... land till the Union . Life of a sailor . The folly of Peter the Great in working in a dock - yard . Ar- rive at Talisker . Presbyterian clergy deficient in learning September 24. French hunting . Young Col. Dr. Birch , Dr. Percy . Lord ...
... land till the Union . Life of a sailor . The folly of Peter the Great in working in a dock - yard . Ar- rive at Talisker . Presbyterian clergy deficient in learning September 24. French hunting . Young Col. Dr. Birch , Dr. Percy . Lord ...
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... Land on Icolm- kill .... ... 342 347 351 Sail to 355 October 20. Sketch of the ruins of Icolmkill . Influence of solemn scenes of piety . Feudal authority in the extreme . Return to Mull .... October 21. Pulteney . Pitt . Walpole . Mr ...
... Land on Icolm- kill .... ... 342 347 351 Sail to 355 October 20. Sketch of the ruins of Icolmkill . Influence of solemn scenes of piety . Feudal authority in the extreme . Return to Mull .... October 21. Pulteney . Pitt . Walpole . Mr ...
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... land scenes , I am confident he would be pleased " with the grand features of nature in many parts " of this country ; he will meet with many persons " here who respect him , and some whom I am per- " suaded he will think not unworthy ...
... land scenes , I am confident he would be pleased " with the grand features of nature in many parts " of this country ; he will meet with many persons " here who respect him , and some whom I am per- " suaded he will think not unworthy ...
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... land ? " Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand ? " There none are swept by sudden fate away ; " But all , whom hunger spares , with age decay . " The truth is , like the ancient Greeks and Ro- mans , he allowed himself to look ...
... land ? " Or change the rocks of Scotland for the Strand ? " There none are swept by sudden fate away ; " But all , whom hunger spares , with age decay . " The truth is , like the ancient Greeks and Ro- mans , he allowed himself to look ...
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... land , like a poor invalid on the piquet guard , or like a list of quack medicines sold by the same bookseller , by whom a work of whatever nature is published ; for it has no connection with his History , let it blest with good health ...
... land , like a poor invalid on the piquet guard , or like a list of quack medicines sold by the same bookseller , by whom a work of whatever nature is published ; for it has no connection with his History , let it blest with good health ...
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Aberdeen afterwards ancient appearance asked believe better boat BOSWELL breakfast called castle church conversation Corrichatachin dinner Duke Dunvegan Edinburgh England English entertained Erse father Flora Macdonald Fort Augustus Garrick gave gentleman give heard Hebrides Highland honour horses humour Icolmkill Inchkenneth Inverary Inverness island isle JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson King Kingsburgh knew lady Laird laughed Lawrence Kirk learning lived looked Lord Lord Monboddo M'Aulay M'Donald M'Lean M'Leod M'Queen Macdonald Macleod main land Malcolm mentioned miles mind Monboddo morning Mull never night observed pleased Portree pretty Prince Charles Principal Robertson publick Rasay recollect remarkable sail Samuel Johnson Sconser Scotland seemed servant shew shore Sir Allan spirit stones suppose Talisker talked tell tenants thing thought tion Tobermorie told took vessel walked wind wish write young
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Page 117 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty,* frieze, Buttress, nor coign* of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt...
Page 14 - A lawyer is not to tell what he knows to be a lie ; he is not to produce what he knows to be a false deed ; but he is not to usurp the province of the jury and of the judge, and determine what shall be the effect of evidence, what shall be the result of legal argument.
Page 130 - I sat down on a bank, such as a writer of Romance might have delighted to feign. I had indeed no trees to whisper over my head, but a clear rivulet streamed at my feet. The day was calm, the air soft, and all was rudeness, silence and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.
Page 353 - ... daring aims irregularly great; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, B,y forms...
Page 225 - There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.
Page 215 - I have often thought, that, if I kept a seraglio, the ladies should all wear linen gowns, or 'cotton; I mean stuffs made of vegetable substances. I would have no silk; you cannot tell when it is clean: it will be very nasty before it is perceived to be so. Linen detects its own dirtiness.
Page 15 - ... community who, by study and experience, have acquired the art and power of arranging evidence, and of applying to the points at issue what the law has settled. A lawyer is to do for his client all that his client might fairly do for himself, if he could. If, by a superiority of attention, of knowledge, of skill, and a better method of communication, he has the advantage of his adversary, it is an advantage to which he is entitled. There must always be some advantage on one side or the other;...
Page 387 - In the course of our conversation this day, it came out that Lady Eglintoune was married the year before Dr. Johnson was born, upon which she graciously said to him that she might have been his mother, and that she now adopted him ; and, when we were going away, she embraced him, saying, "My dear son, farewell!" My friend was much pleased with this day's entertainment, and owned that I had done well to force him out.* TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2. We were now in a country not only " of saddles and bridles,"...
Page 103 - Live you ? or are you aught That man may question ? You seem to understand me, By each at once her choppy finger laying Upon her skinny lips. — You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.
Page 342 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow • warmer among...