The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Political tracts. Political essays. Miscellaneous essays. A journey to the western islands of ScotlandJ. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 - English literature |
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... State of Affairs in 1756 An Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain , written in the year 1756 MISCELLANEOUS ESSAY S. Review of the Memoirs of the Court of Auguftus ; by Thomas Blackwell , J. U. D. Principal of Mari- fhal ...
... State of Affairs in 1756 An Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain , written in the year 1756 MISCELLANEOUS ESSAY S. Review of the Memoirs of the Court of Auguftus ; by Thomas Blackwell , J. U. D. Principal of Mari- fhal ...
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... man- kind in a state of neutrality , or at worft have no- thing to encounter but prejudice and vanity ; pre- judice without malignity , and vanity without in- terest . B 2 1 tereft . But the politician's improvements are op- pofed.
... man- kind in a state of neutrality , or at worft have no- thing to encounter but prejudice and vanity ; pre- judice without malignity , and vanity without in- terest . B 2 1 tereft . But the politician's improvements are op- pofed.
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... state of the nation has continued the fame . The fun has risen , and the corn has grown , and whatever talk has been of the danger of property , yet he that ploughed the field commonly reaped it , and he that built a house was mafter of ...
... state of the nation has continued the fame . The fun has risen , and the corn has grown , and whatever talk has been of the danger of property , yet he that ploughed the field commonly reaped it , and he that built a house was mafter of ...
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... state can be no longer poffible . In this contemptuous cenfure , I mean not to in- clude every single man . In all lead , fays the chemist , there is filver ; and in all copper there is gold . But mingled maffes are juftly denominated ...
... state can be no longer poffible . In this contemptuous cenfure , I mean not to in- clude every single man . In all lead , fays the chemist , there is filver ; and in all copper there is gold . But mingled maffes are juftly denominated ...
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... state of the poor Bostonians , because they cannot all be fup- pofed to have committed acts of rebellion , yet all are involved in the penalty impofed . This , they fay , is to violate the first rule of justice , by con- demning the ...
... state of the poor Bostonians , because they cannot all be fup- pofed to have committed acts of rebellion , yet all are involved in the penalty impofed . This , they fay , is to violate the first rule of justice , by con- demning the ...
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Page 204 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 207 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Page 56 - ... with France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction; pale, torpid, spiritless and helpless; gasping and groaning, unpitied among men, made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery; and were at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean, without notice and without remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless, and enterprise impracticable, fleets...
Page 141 - The time is now come, in which every Englishman expects to be informed of the national affairs ; and in which he has a right to have that expectation gratified. For, whatever may be urged by ministers, or those whom vanity or interest make the followers of ministers, concerning the necessity of confidence in our...
Page 457 - ... it if he had it; but whence could it be had? It is too long to be remembered, and the language formerly had nothing written. He has doubtless inserted names that circulate in popular stories, and may have translated some wandering ballads, if any can be found; and the names, and some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole.
Page 458 - A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist, who does not love Scotland better than truth: he will always love it better than inquiry; and if falsehood flatters his vanity, will not be very diligent to detect it.
Page 241 - The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it...
Page 357 - 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 225 - It is a cordial administered by the gracious hand of providence, of which they ought never to be deprived by an ill-judged and improper education.
Page 413 - Length of life is distributed impartially to very different modes of life in very different climates ; and the mountains have no greater examples of age and health than the...