The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 6Cowie, 1825 |
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Page 41
... church . Mountaineers are thievish , because they are poor , and having neither manufactures nor commerce , can grow richer only by robbery . They regularly plunder their neighbours , for their neighbours are commonly their ene- mies ...
... church . Mountaineers are thievish , because they are poor , and having neither manufactures nor commerce , can grow richer only by robbery . They regularly plunder their neighbours , for their neighbours are commonly their ene- mies ...
Page 46
... church , which they set on fire : and this said he , is the tune which the piper played while they were burning . Narrations like this , however uncertain , deserve the no- tice of a traveller , because they are the only records of a ...
... church , which they set on fire : and this said he , is the tune which the piper played while they were burning . Narrations like this , however uncertain , deserve the no- tice of a traveller , because they are the only records of a ...
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... churches in the islands are small squares enclosed with stone , which belong to particular families , as repositories for the dead . At Raasay there is one , I think , for the proprietor , and one for some collateral house . It is told ...
... churches in the islands are small squares enclosed with stone , which belong to particular families , as repositories for the dead . At Raasay there is one , I think , for the proprietor , and one for some collateral house . It is told ...
Page 61
... churches , we may indulge our superiority with a new triumph , by comparing it with the fervid acti- vity of those who suffer them to fall . Of the destruction of churches , the decay of religion must in time be the consequence ; for ...
... churches , we may indulge our superiority with a new triumph , by comparing it with the fervid acti- vity of those who suffer them to fall . Of the destruction of churches , the decay of religion must in time be the consequence ; for ...
Page 62
... churches at all , these venerable fragments do not prove the people of former times to have been more numerous , but to have been more devout . If the inhabitants were doubled , with their pre- sent principles , it appears not that any ...
... churches at all , these venerable fragments do not prove the people of former times to have been more numerous , but to have been more devout . If the inhabitants were doubled , with their pre- sent principles , it appears not that any ...
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