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Pagina 44
... Lord Monboddo's strange speculation on the primitive state of human nature , observing : " Sir , it is all conjecture about a thing useless , even were it known to be true . Knowledge of all kinds is good . Conjecture , as to things ...
... Lord Monboddo's strange speculation on the primitive state of human nature , observing : " Sir , it is all conjecture about a thing useless , even were it known to be true . Knowledge of all kinds is good . Conjecture , as to things ...
Pagina 140
... Lord Monboddo supped with me one evening . They joined in controverting your proposition , that the Gaelic of the Highlands and Isles of Scotland was not written till of late . " " My mind has been somewhat dark this summer . I have ...
... Lord Monboddo supped with me one evening . They joined in controverting your proposition , that the Gaelic of the Highlands and Isles of Scotland was not written till of late . " " My mind has been somewhat dark this summer . I have ...
Pagina 141
James Boswell. LORD HAILES'S HISTORY 141 am sorry the advertisement was not continued for three or four times in the paper . " That Lord Monboddo and Mr. Macqueen should controvert a position contrary to the imaginary interest of ...
James Boswell. LORD HAILES'S HISTORY 141 am sorry the advertisement was not continued for three or four times in the paper . " That Lord Monboddo and Mr. Macqueen should controvert a position contrary to the imaginary interest of ...
Pagina 303
... Lord Monboddo have each received one , and return you thanks . Monboddo dined with me lately , and having drank tea , we were a good while by ourselves , and as I knew that he had read the ' Journey ' superficially , as he did not talk ...
... Lord Monboddo have each received one , and return you thanks . Monboddo dined with me lately , and having drank tea , we were a good while by ourselves , and as I knew that he had read the ' Journey ' superficially , as he did not talk ...
Pagina 325
... Lord Kames , Lord Monboddo , and Mr. Nairne . He is gone to the Highlands with Dr. Gregory ; when he returns , I shall do more for him . " Sir Allan Maclean has carried that branch of his cause , of which we had good hopes : the ...
... Lord Kames , Lord Monboddo , and Mr. Nairne . He is gone to the Highlands with Dr. Gregory ; when he returns , I shall do more for him . " Sir Allan Maclean has carried that branch of his cause , of which we had good hopes : the ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 366 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. 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.
Pagina 96 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
Pagina 370 - Why, sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Pagina 112 - I once wrote for a magazine : I made a calculation, that if I should write but a page a day, at the same rate, I should, in ten years, write nine volumes in folio, of an ordinary size and print.
Pagina 352 - Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is Strange, yet nothing new: Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong; Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
Pagina 128 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Pagina 27 - Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go And view the ocean leaning on the sky : From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know And on the lunar world securely pry.
Pagina 204 - I sell here, Sir, what all the " world desires to have, — POWER' He had about seven
Pagina 24 - Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale.
Pagina 300 - ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.