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... writing . .... 26 Edinburgh surveyed . Character of Swift's works . Evil spirits and witchcraft . Lord Monboddo and the Ouran - Outang August 17. Poetry and Dictionary - writing . Scepticism . Eternal necessity refuted . Lord Hai'es's ...
... writing . .... 26 Edinburgh surveyed . Character of Swift's works . Evil spirits and witchcraft . Lord Monboddo and the Ouran - Outang August 17. Poetry and Dictionary - writing . Scepticism . Eternal necessity refuted . Lord Hai'es's ...
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... written by a friend . Studied conclusions of letters . Whether allowable in dying men to main- tain resentment to the last . Instructions for writing the lives of literary men . Fingal denied to be genuine , and pleasantly ridiculed ...
... written by a friend . Studied conclusions of letters . Whether allowable in dying men to main- tain resentment to the last . Instructions for writing the lives of literary men . Fingal denied to be genuine , and pleasantly ridiculed ...
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... written with the address and persuasion of the historian of America . 66 " WHEN I saw you last , you gave us some hopes that you might prevail with Mr. Johnson to make out that excursion to Scotland , with the " expectation of which we ...
... written with the address and persuasion of the historian of America . 66 " WHEN I saw you last , you gave us some hopes that you might prevail with Mr. Johnson to make out that excursion to Scotland , with the " expectation of which we ...
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... writing it . He was- conscious of his superiority . He loved praise when it was brought to him ; but was too proud to seek for it . He was somewhat susceptible of flattery . His mind was so full of imagery , that he might have been ...
... writing it . He was- conscious of his superiority . He loved praise when it was brought to him ; but was too proud to seek for it . He was somewhat susceptible of flattery . His mind was so full of imagery , that he might have been ...
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... written like a man conscious of the truth , and feel- ing his own strength . Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled . The greatest part of men can- not judge of reasoning , and are ...
... written like a man conscious of the truth , and feel- ing his own strength . Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled . The greatest part of men can- not judge of reasoning , and are ...
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Aberdeen afterwards ancient appearance asked Auchinleck believe better boat BOSWELL breakfast called castle church conversation dined dinner Duke Duke of Argyle Dunvegan Edinburgh England English entertained Erse father Flora Macdonald Garrick gave gentleman give heard Hebrides Highland honour horse humour Icolmkill Inchkenneth Inverary island isle JAMES BOSWELL John Johnson kind Kingsburgh knew Lady Laird laughed Lawrence Kirk learning lived Lochbuy looked Lord Lord Monboddo lordship M'Aulay M'Lean M'Leod M'Queen main land manner mentioned miles mind Monboddo morning Mull never night obliged observed OCTOBER opinion pleased Portree pretty Principal Robertson publick Rasay recollect remarkable sail Samuel Johnson Scotland servant shew shewn shore Sir Allan stone suppose Talisker talked tell thing thought Thrale tion Tobermorie told took Ulva vessel walked Whig wind wish write young
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Strona 28 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition ; and how a man can write at one time, and not at another. ' Nay, (said Dr. Johnson,) a man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly* to it.
Strona 117 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his loved mansionry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here : no jutty,* frieze, Buttress, nor coign* of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle : Where they most breed and haunt...
Strona 9 - He was afflicted with a bodily disease which made him often restless and fretful; and with a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking.
Strona 42 - Then, sir, let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known...
Strona 26 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Strona 200 - The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation...
Strona 67 - But in the course of general history, we find manners. In wars, we see the dispositions of people, their degrees of humanity, and other particulars.
Strona 232 - In the last age, when my mother lived in London, there were two sets of people, those who gave the wall, and those who took it ; the peaceable and the quarrelsome. When...
Strona 225 - There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations. If you find the same language in distant countries, you may be sure that the inhabitants of each have been the same people ; that is to say, if you find the languages a good deal the same ; for a word here and there being the same, will not do. Thus Butler, in his 'Hudibras...