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... Highland hut . Fort 110 Augustus . Governour Trapaud . August 31. Anoch . Emigration . Goldsmith . Poets and soldiers compared . Life of a sailor . Landlord's daughter at Anoch . 114 September 1. Glensheal . The Macraas . Dr. Johnson's ...
... Highland hut . Fort 110 Augustus . Governour Trapaud . August 31. Anoch . Emigration . Goldsmith . Poets and soldiers compared . Life of a sailor . Landlord's daughter at Anoch . 114 September 1. Glensheal . The Macraas . Dr. Johnson's ...
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... Highland Chief . Lan- guages the pedigree of nations . Laird of the Isle of Muck 207 September 19. Choice of a wife . Women an overmatch for men . Lady Grange in St. Kilda . Poetry of savages . French lite- rati . Prize - fighting ...
... Highland Chief . Lan- guages the pedigree of nations . Laird of the Isle of Muck 207 September 19. Choice of a wife . Women an overmatch for men . Lady Grange in St. Kilda . Poetry of savages . French lite- rati . Prize - fighting ...
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... Highland lady . - 246 September 28. Ancient Irish pride of family . Dr. Johnson on threshing and thatching . Dangerous to increase the price of labour . Arrive at Ostig . Dr. M.Pherson's Latin poetry . 248 September 29. Reverend Mr. M ...
... Highland lady . - 246 September 28. Ancient Irish pride of family . Dr. Johnson on threshing and thatching . Dangerous to increase the price of labour . Arrive at Ostig . Dr. M.Pherson's Latin poetry . 248 September 29. Reverend Mr. M ...
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... Highland tradition . Dr. Johnson's delicacy of feel- ing . 288 October 10. Dependence of tenants on landlords . October 11. London and Pekin compared . Dr. Johnson's high opinion of the former . 290 291 October 12. Return to Mr. M ...
... Highland tradition . Dr. Johnson's delicacy of feel- ing . 288 October 10. Dependence of tenants on landlords . October 11. London and Pekin compared . Dr. Johnson's high opinion of the former . 290 291 October 12. Return to Mr. M ...
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... Highlands . Mr. Harris of Salisbury . 366 November 4. Auchinleck . Cattle without horns . Composure of mind how far attainable . 368 November 5. Dr. Johnson's high respect for the English clergy . 371 November 6. Lord Auchinleck and Dr ...
... Highlands . Mr. Harris of Salisbury . 366 November 4. Auchinleck . Cattle without horns . Composure of mind how far attainable . 368 November 5. Dr. Johnson's high respect for the English clergy . 371 November 6. Lord Auchinleck and Dr ...
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Page 322 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground •which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Page 332 - ... daring aims irregularly great; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by; Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band, B,y forms...
Page 186 - Had Jesus Christ delivered no other declaration than the following : ' 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...
Page 24 - 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.
Page 194 - I have all my life long been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
Page 348 - Sir, are you so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know that a man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice...
Page 83 - Sir Joshua Reynolds, sir, is the most invulnerable man I know ; the man with whom if you should quarrel, you would find the most difficulty how to abuse.
Page 186 - ... constitutional Blackstone wisely rests on the solid footing of authority. " Our ancestors having most indisputably a competent jurisdiction to decide this great and important question, and having, in fact, decided it, it is now become our duty, at this distance of time, to acquiesce in their determination.
Page 121 - The day was calm, the air was soft, and all was rudeness, silence, and solitude. Before me, and on either side, were high hills, which, by hindering the eye from ranging, forced the mind to find entertainment for itself. Whether I spent the hour well I know not ; for here I first conceived the thought of this narration.
Page 34 - The teeming mother anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face: Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king.