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... morning , having chatted a good while after my wife left us . She had infifted , that to fhew all refpect to the Sage , The would give up our own bed - chamber to him and take a worse . This I cannot but gratefully mention , as one of a ...
... morning , having chatted a good while after my wife left us . She had infifted , that to fhew all refpect to the Sage , The would give up our own bed - chamber to him and take a worse . This I cannot but gratefully mention , as one of a ...
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... morning , as did Dr. Gerard , who had come in fix miles from the country on purpose . We went and faw the Marifchal College * , and at one o'clock we waited on the magistrates in the town - half , as they had invited us in order to ...
... morning , as did Dr. Gerard , who had come in fix miles from the country on purpose . We went and faw the Marifchal College * , and at one o'clock we waited on the magistrates in the town - half , as they had invited us in order to ...
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... morning ; now we were but barren . The profeffors feemed afraid to speak . Dr. Gerard told us that an eminent printer was very intimate with Warburton . " Johnson . " Why , Sir , he has printed fome of his works , and perhaps bought the ...
... morning ; now we were but barren . The profeffors feemed afraid to speak . Dr. Gerard told us that an eminent printer was very intimate with Warburton . " Johnson . " Why , Sir , he has printed fome of his works , and perhaps bought the ...
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... morning , and breakfafted at Ellon . The landlady faid to me , " Is not this the great Doctor that is . go- ing about through the country ? " - I faid , " Yes . " - " Aye , ( faid she ) we heard of him , I made an errand into the room ...
... morning , and breakfafted at Ellon . The landlady faid to me , " Is not this the great Doctor that is . go- ing about through the country ? " - I faid , " Yes . " - " Aye , ( faid she ) we heard of him , I made an errand into the room ...
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... morning I introduced the subject of the origin of evil . - Johnson . " Moral evil is occa- fioned by free will , which implies choice be- tween good and evil . With all the evil that there is , there is no man but would rather be a free ...
... morning I introduced the subject of the origin of evil . - Johnson . " Moral evil is occa- fioned by free will , which implies choice be- tween good and evil . With all the evil that there is , there is no man but would rather be a free ...
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Page 414 - 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...
Page 7 - ... the order of society, and from a veneration for the Great Source of all order ; correct, nay stern in his taste ; hard to please, and easily offended, impetuous and irritable in his temper, but of a most humane and benevolent heart...
Page 238 - 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...
Page 18 - There must always be some advantage, on one side or other; and it is better that advantage should be had by talents, than by chance. If lawyers were to undertake no causes till they were sure they were just, a man might be precluded altogether from a trial of his claim, though, were it judicially examined, it might be found a very just claim.
Page 8 - He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the marvellous and the mysterious, his vigorous reason examined the evidence with jealousy.
Page 156 - 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 211 - Tartan waistcoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes, a bluish philibeg, and Tartan hose. He had jet black hair tied behind, and was a large stately man, with a steady sensible countenance.
Page 7 - In him were united a most logical head with a most fertile imagination, which gave him an extraordinary advantage in arguing: for he could reason close or wide, as he saw best for the moment. Exulting in his intellectual...
Page 271 - There is no tracing the connection of ancient nations, but by language ; and therefore I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations.
Page 103 - Johnson, upon all occasions, expressed his approbation of enforcing instruction by means of the rod. "I would rather [said he] have the rod to be the general terror to all, to make them learn, than tell a child, if you do thus, or thus, you will be -more esteemed than your brothers or sisters. The rod produces an effect which terminates in itself. A child is afraid of being whipped, and gets his task, and there's an end on't; whereas, by exciting emulation and comparisons of superiority, you lay...