The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 2G. Allen & Unwin, 1924 |
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... Learning was new among them , and he doubted not but they would in time be a learned people , for they were a fine , bold , enterprising people . compared England and Scotland to two lions , the one saturated with his belly full , and ...
... Learning was new among them , and he doubted not but they would in time be a learned people , for they were a fine , bold , enterprising people . compared England and Scotland to two lions , the one saturated with his belly full , and ...
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... learning . They are not so good as Brydone's , but they are better than Pococke's . I have not , indeed , cut the leaves yet ; but I have read in them where the pages are open , and I do not suppose that what is in the pages which are ...
... learning . They are not so good as Brydone's , but they are better than Pococke's . I have not , indeed , cut the leaves yet ; but I have read in them where the pages are open , and I do not suppose that what is in the pages which are ...
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... learning and piety ; his only chance for promotion is his being connected with somebody who has parliamentary interest . Our several ministries in this reign . have outbid each other in concessions to the people . Lord Bute , though a ...
... learning and piety ; his only chance for promotion is his being connected with somebody who has parliamentary interest . Our several ministries in this reign . have outbid each other in concessions to the people . Lord Bute , though a ...
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... learning of the Scotch ; - " Their learning is like bread in a besieged town : every man gets a little , but no man gets a full meal . " " There is ( said he , ) in Scotland a diffusion of learn- ing , a certain portion of it widely and ...
... learning of the Scotch ; - " Their learning is like bread in a besieged town : every man gets a little , but no man gets a full meal . " " There is ( said he , ) in Scotland a diffusion of learn- ing , a certain portion of it widely and ...
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... learning , the points in which I saw much difficulty , maintaining that " the succession of heirs . general was the succession , by the law of Scotland , from the throne to the cottage , as far as we can learn it by record ; " observing ...
... learning , the points in which I saw much difficulty , maintaining that " the succession of heirs . general was the succession , by the law of Scotland , from the throne to the cottage , as far as we can learn it by record ; " observing ...
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