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Page 29
... at the bridge strikes the imagination with all the gloom and grandeur of
Siberian solitude . The way makes a flexure , and the mountains , covered with
trees , rise at once on the left hand and in the front . We desired our guides to
shew us the ...
... at the bridge strikes the imagination with all the gloom and grandeur of
Siberian solitude . The way makes a flexure , and the mountains , covered with
trees , rise at once on the left hand and in the front . We desired our guides to
shew us the ...
Page 31
The country is totally denuded of its wood , but the stumps both of oaks and firs ,
which are still found , shew that it has been once a forest of large timber . I do not
remember that we saw any animals , but we were told , that in the mountains ...
The country is totally denuded of its wood , but the stumps both of oaks and firs ,
which are still found , shew that it has been once a forest of large timber . I do not
remember that we saw any animals , but we were told , that in the mountains ...
Page 37
phantoms which haunt a desert are want , and misery , and danger ; the evils of
dereliction rush upon the thoughts ; man is made unwillingly acquainted with his
own weakness , and meditation shews him only how little he can sustain , and ...
phantoms which haunt a desert are want , and misery , and danger ; the evils of
dereliction rush upon the thoughts ; man is made unwillingly acquainted with his
own weakness , and meditation shews him only how little he can sustain , and ...
Page 59
On one side of it they shew caves into which the rude nations of the first ages
retreated from the weather . These dreary vaults might have had other uses .
There is still a cavity near the house called the oar - cave , in which the seamen ,
after ...
On one side of it they shew caves into which the rude nations of the first ages
retreated from the weather . These dreary vaults might have had other uses .
There is still a cavity near the house called the oar - cave , in which the seamen ,
after ...
Page 60
The whole number will then be nine hundred , or nine to a square mile ; a degree
of populousness greater than those tracts of desolation can often shew . They are
content with their country , and faithful to their chiefs , and yet uninfected with ...
The whole number will then be nine hundred , or nine to a square mile ; a degree
of populousness greater than those tracts of desolation can often shew . They are
content with their country , and faithful to their chiefs , and yet uninfected with ...
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| Title | The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 6 The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Cowie, 1825 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 17 Sep 2009 |
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