 Such are the things which this journey has given me an opportunity of seeing, and such are the reflections which that sight has raised. Having passed my time almost wholly in cities, I may have been surprised by modes of life and appearances of nature,...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Σελίδα 416των Samuel Johnson - 1801Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1924 - 322 σελίδες
...which that sight has raised. Having passed my time almost wholly in cities, I may have been surprised by modes of life and appearances of nature that are familiar to men of wider survey and more varied conversation. Novelty and ignorance must always be reciprocal, and I cannot... | |
 | Alida Alberdina Sibbellina Wieten - 1926 - 170 σελίδες
...Journey to the Western Islands. "Having passed my time almost wholly in cities, I may have been surprised by modes of life and appearances of nature, that are familiar to men of wider survey and more varied conversation. Novelty and ignorance must always be reciprocal, and I cannot... | |
 | Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - 1927 - 436 σελίδες
...which that sight has raised. Having passed my time almost wholly in cities, I may have been surprised by modes of life and appearances of nature that are familiar to men of wider survey and more varied conversation. Novelty and ignorance must always be reciprocal, a-nd I cannot... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 σελίδες
...paragraph of his narrative. " Having passed my time almost wholly in cities, I may have been surprised by modes of life, and appearances of nature, that are familiar to men of wider survey and more varied conversation. Novelty and ignorance must always be reciprocal ; and I cannot... | |
 | Catherine Neal Parke - 1991 - 212 σελίδες
...sociological perspective: Having passed my time almost wholly in cities, I may have been surprised by modes of life and appearances of nature, that are familiar to men of wider survey and more varied conversation. Novelty and ignorance must always be reciprocal, and I cannot... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 σελίδες
...varied conversation. Novelty and ignorance must always be reciprocal, and I cannot but be conscious that my thoughts on national manners, are the thoughts of one who has seen but little" (p. 137). This show of humility disappointed Boswell: "Is not your concluding paragraph... | |
 | Scottish Mountaineering Club - 1913 - 518 σελίδες
...proper traveller's modesty. " I cannot but be conscious," so runs the last sentence of the book, " that my thoughts on national manners are the thoughts of one who has seen but little." Yet there are some delightful notes. " The conversation of the Scots," he says, "... | |
 | Charles A. Knight - 2004 - 341 σελίδες
...overgeneralization of satire. "Novelty and ignorance must always be reciprocal, and I cannot but be conscious that my thoughts on national manners, are the thoughts of one who has seen but little."23 Juvenal's image of Egypt in Satire 15 treats Rome's relationship to foreigners... | |
 | Timothy Wilson-Smith - 2004 - 174 σελίδες
...varied conversation. Novelty and ignorance must always be reciprocal and I cannot but be conscious that my thoughts on national manners, are the thoughts of one who has seen but little. Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, p. 152. Johnson's 18th-century... | |
 | John Richetti - 2005 - 974 σελίδες
...broad knowledge of life: 'Having passed my time almost wholly in cities, I may have been surprised by modes of life and appearances of nature, that are familiar to men of wider survey and more varied conversation . . . I cannot but be conscious that my thoughts on national manners,... | |
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