The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 6Cowie, 1825 |
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Page 47
... heard , and unskil- fully related . Distant events must have been mingled together , and the actions of one man given to another . These , however , are deficiencies in story , for which no man is now to be censured . It were enough ...
... heard , and unskil- fully related . Distant events must have been mingled together , and the actions of one man given to another . These , however , are deficiencies in story , for which no man is now to be censured . It were enough ...
Page 49
... heard . But there seems to be in all this more alarm than danger . The Highlander walks carefully before , and the horse ac- customed to the ground , follows him with little deviation . Sometimes the hill is too steep for the horseman ...
... heard . But there seems to be in all this more alarm than danger . The Highlander walks carefully before , and the horse ac- customed to the ground , follows him with little deviation . Sometimes the hill is too steep for the horseman ...
Page 56
... heard of any other fish than trouts and eels . The trouts which I have seen are not large ; the colour of their flesh is tinged as in England . Of their eels I can give no ac- count , having never tasted them ; for I believe 56 A ...
... heard of any other fish than trouts and eels . The trouts which I have seen are not large ; the colour of their flesh is tinged as in England . Of their eels I can give no ac- count , having never tasted them ; for I believe 56 A ...
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... heard of any house of prayer , except in Sky , that was not in ruins . The malignant influence of Cal- vinism has blasted ceremony and decency together ; and if the remembrance of papal superstition is obliterated , the monuments of ...
... heard of any house of prayer , except in Sky , that was not in ruins . The malignant influence of Cal- vinism has blasted ceremony and decency together ; and if the remembrance of papal superstition is obliterated , the monuments of ...
Page 65
... heard mentioned as brackish , though it has some hard- ness , or other qualities , which make it less fit for use ; and the family is now better supplied from a stream , which runs by the rock , from two pleasing waterfalls . Here we ...
... heard mentioned as brackish , though it has some hard- ness , or other qualities , which make it less fit for use ; and the family is now better supplied from a stream , which runs by the rock , from two pleasing waterfalls . Here we ...
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