The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 6Cowie, 1825 |
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Page 52
... obtained here at an easy rate . A dinner in the Western Islands differs very little from a dinner in England , except that , in the place of tarts , there are always set different preparations of milk . This part of their diet will ...
... obtained here at an easy rate . A dinner in the Western Islands differs very little from a dinner in England , except that , in the place of tarts , there are always set different preparations of milk . This part of their diet will ...
Page 57
... obtained . That they have few or none of either in Sky , they impute to the ravage of the foxes , and have therefore set , for some years past , a price upon their heads , which , as the number was diminished , has been gradually raised ...
... obtained . That they have few or none of either in Sky , they impute to the ravage of the foxes , and have therefore set , for some years past , a price upon their heads , which , as the number was diminished , has been gradually raised ...
Page 59
... obtained any positive ac- count , consistent with the result of political computation . Not many years ago , the late laird let out one hundred men upon a military expedition . The sixth part of a people is supposed capable of bearing ...
... obtained any positive ac- count , consistent with the result of political computation . Not many years ago , the late laird let out one hundred men upon a military expedition . The sixth part of a people is supposed capable of bearing ...
Page 76
... obtained with so much difficulty , no- thing surely ought to be wasted ; yet their method of clearing their oats from the husk is by parching them in the straw . Thus with the genuine improvidence of sa- vages , they destroy that fodder ...
... obtained with so much difficulty , no- thing surely ought to be wasted ; yet their method of clearing their oats from the husk is by parching them in the straw . Thus with the genuine improvidence of sa- vages , they destroy that fodder ...
Page 90
... obtained . In all greater questions , however , there is now happily an end to all fear or hope from malice or from ... obtain the consent of others to our gratification . Power , simply considered , what- ever it confers on one , must ...
... obtained . In all greater questions , however , there is now happily an end to all fear or hope from malice or from ... obtain the consent of others to our gratification . Power , simply considered , what- ever it confers on one , must ...
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