The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 6Cowie, 1825 |
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Page 40
... continued where the primitive language is spoken , no nation will desire me to suppose , for the manners of mountaineers are commonly savage , but they are rather produced by their situation than derived from their ancestors . Such ...
... continued where the primitive language is spoken , no nation will desire me to suppose , for the manners of mountaineers are commonly savage , but they are rather produced by their situation than derived from their ancestors . Such ...
Page 56
... continued for two hundred years , and is still subsisting between Macleod of Raasay , and Macdonald of Sky , in consequence of which , the survivor always inherits the arms of the deceased ; a natural memorial of military friendship ...
... continued for two hundred years , and is still subsisting between Macleod of Raasay , and Macdonald of Sky , in consequence of which , the survivor always inherits the arms of the deceased ; a natural memorial of military friendship ...
Page 72
... continued by constraint ; we derived much pleasure from it , and I hope have given him no reason to repent it . The weather was now almost one continued storm , and we were to snatch some happy intermission to be conveyed to Mull , the ...
... continued by constraint ; we derived much pleasure from it , and I hope have given him no reason to repent it . The weather was now almost one continued storm , and we were to snatch some happy intermission to be conveyed to Mull , the ...
Page 111
... continued till he was reduced to defend himself upon his knee . At that instant one of the Macleods came to his rescue ; who , as it is said , offered quarter to the dragoon , but he thought himself obliged to reject what he had before ...
... continued till he was reduced to defend himself upon his knee . At that instant one of the Macleods came to his rescue ; who , as it is said , offered quarter to the dragoon , but he thought himself obliged to reject what he had before ...
Page 114
... continued accumulation of ques- tions we found , that the translation meant , if any meaning there were , was nothing else than the Irish Bible . We heard of manuscripts that were , or that had been in the hands of somebody's father ...
... continued accumulation of ques- tions we found , that the translation meant , if any meaning there were , was nothing else than the Irish Bible . We heard of manuscripts that were , or that had been in the hands of somebody's father ...
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