Boswell's Life of JohnsonG. Routledge and Sons, 1856 - 298 pàgines |
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Pàgina iv
... Travellers - Parnell , the Poet- " Taxation no Tyranny " -Rumoured Death of Johnson CHAPTER VIII .-- 1778 . Boswell's ... Travelling - Boswell's system of Shorthand - Dr . Dodd's " Thoughts in Prison " -Writings of Pennant - Johnson and ...
... Travellers - Parnell , the Poet- " Taxation no Tyranny " -Rumoured Death of Johnson CHAPTER VIII .-- 1778 . Boswell's ... Travelling - Boswell's system of Shorthand - Dr . Dodd's " Thoughts in Prison " -Writings of Pennant - Johnson and ...
Pàgina 6
... travellers to the South Sea must be conjecture , because they had not enough of the language of those countries to understand so much as they have related . Objects falling under the observation of the senses might be clearly known ...
... travellers to the South Sea must be conjecture , because they had not enough of the language of those countries to understand so much as they have related . Objects falling under the observation of the senses might be clearly known ...
Pàgina 21
... travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean . On those shores were the four great Empires of the world — the Assyrian , the Persian , the Grecian , and the Roman . All our religion , almost all our law , almost all our arts ...
... travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean . On those shores were the four great Empires of the world — the Assyrian , the Persian , the Grecian , and the Roman . All our religion , almost all our law , almost all our arts ...
Pàgina 56
... travelling in Ireland . I have * * * * 1 The son of Johnson's old friend , Mr. William Drummond ( see vol . ii . chap . i . ) He was a young man of such distinguished merit , that he was nominated to one of the medical profes- sorships ...
... travelling in Ireland . I have * * * * 1 The son of Johnson's old friend , Mr. William Drummond ( see vol . ii . chap . i . ) He was a young man of such distinguished merit , that he was nominated to one of the medical profes- sorships ...
Pàgina 91
... travelled all the preceding night , and gone to bed at Leek in Staffordshire ; and that when I rose to go to church in the afternoon I was informed there had been an earthquake , of which , it seems , the shock had been felt in some ...
... travelled all the preceding night , and gone to bed at Leek in Staffordshire ; and that when I rose to go to church in the afternoon I was informed there had been an earthquake , of which , it seems , the shock had been felt in some ...
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