The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.G. Walker ... [and 9 others], 1820 |
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Pàgina 87
... expected no- thing less than half the revenue of the Indies ; nor is it easy to imagine their mortification and perplexity when they found only two mules laden with silver , the rest having no other burden than provisions . The driver ...
... expected no- thing less than half the revenue of the Indies ; nor is it easy to imagine their mortification and perplexity when they found only two mules laden with silver , the rest having no other burden than provisions . The driver ...
Pàgina 88
... expected enemies . Determining therefore to pass forward to Venta Cruz , he asked Pedro , the leader of the Symerons , whether he was resolved to follow him ; and having received from him the strongest assurances that nothing should ...
... expected enemies . Determining therefore to pass forward to Venta Cruz , he asked Pedro , the leader of the Symerons , whether he was resolved to follow him ; and having received from him the strongest assurances that nothing should ...
Pàgina 118
... expected from the natives so incensed , but the most cruel and lingering death ? But why he should not rather have requested to be sent to Eng- land , it is not easy to conceive . In so long a voy- age he might have found a thousand ...
... expected from the natives so incensed , but the most cruel and lingering death ? But why he should not rather have requested to be sent to Eng- land , it is not easy to conceive . In so long a voy- age he might have found a thousand ...
Pàgina 126
... expected here , but that southward , in a place to which he offered to be his pilot , there was great plenty . This proposal was accepted , and on the 5th of December , under the direction of the good - natured Indian , they came to ...
... expected here , but that southward , in a place to which he offered to be his pilot , there was great plenty . This proposal was accepted , and on the 5th of December , under the direction of the good - natured Indian , they came to ...
Pàgina 127
... expected in the boat . To this end , on the 19th of December , they en- tered a bay near Cippo , a town inhabited by Spa- niards , who , discovering them , immediately issued out , to the number of an hundred horsemen , with about two ...
... expected in the boat . To this end , on the 19th of December , they en- tered a bay near Cippo , a town inhabited by Spa- niards , who , discovering them , immediately issued out , to the number of an hundred horsemen , with about two ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 455 - ... commemoration available to the confirmation of my faith, the establishment of my hope, and the enlargement of my charity; and make the death of thy Son JESUS CHRIST effectual to my redemption. Have mercy upon me, and pardon the multitude of my offences. Bless my friends ; have mercy upon all men. Support me, by thy Holy Spirit, in the days of weakness, and at the hour of death ; and receive me, at my death, to everlasting happiness, for the sake of JESUS CHRIST. Amen.
Pàgina 338 - I cannot forbear to mention, that neither reason nor revelation denies you to hope, that you may increase her happiness, by obeying her precepts ; and that she may, in her present state, look, with pleasure, upon every act of virtue, to which her instructions or example have contributed.
Pàgina 288 - It is the heaviest stone that melancholy can throw at a man, to tell him he is at the end of his nature ; or that there is no further state to come, unto which this seems progressional, and otherwise made in vain...
Pàgina 446 - JESUS CHRIST'S sake; to whom with thee and the HOLY GHOST, three persons and one GOD, be all honour and glory, world without end, Amen."1 BOSWELL. " Pray, Mr. Dilly, how does Dr. Leland's History of Ireland sell...
Pàgina 444 - I am afraid however that my counsel is vain, yet I have eased my heart by giving it. When Queen Mary took the resolution of sheltering herself in England, the Archbishop of St. Andrew's, attempting to dissuade her, attended on her journey; and when they came to the irremeable...
Pàgina 308 - His style is, indeed, a tissue of many languages ; a mixture of heterogeneous words, brought together from distant regions, with terms originally appropriated to one art, and drawn by violence into the service of another. He must however be confessed to have augmented our philosophical diction : and in defence of his uncommon words and expressions, we must consider, that he had uncommon sentiments, and was not content to express in many words that idea for which any language could supply a single...
Pàgina 60 - He was the first man who brought the ships to contemn castles on shore, which had been thought ever very formidable, and were discovered by him to make a noise only, and to fright those who could rarely be hurt by them. He was the first that infused that proportion of courage into the seamen, by making them see by experience what mighty things they could do if they were resolved...
Pàgina 284 - ... and had^[ lately declared, that " the whole world was made for man, " but only the twelfth part of man for woman ;" and, that " man is the whole world, but woman only " the rib or crooked part of man.
Pàgina 378 - The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Pàgina 216 - London, for a guinea a week. He was afterwards raised to the office of clerk of the franks, in which he acted with great spirit and firmness ; and often stopped franks, which were given by members of parliament to their friends, because he thought such extension of a peculiar right illegal. This raised many complaints, and having stopped, among others, a frank given to the old duchess of Marlborough by Mr.