The History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI. Till His Accession to the Throne of England: With a Review of the Scottish History Previous to that Period and an Appendix Containing Original Papers, 第 1 卷T. Cadell and W. Davis, 1806 |
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第 160 頁 - I used every expedient to evade this journey to London, yet it is now uncertain whether I shall ever leave it. I have had some invitations, and some intentions of taking a trip to Paris ; but I believe it will be safer for me not to go thither, for I might probably settle there for life. No one was ever endowed with so great a portion of the vis inertia:.
第 169 頁 - B. the eldest, a boy of ten years old, stepped forth and told me how many friends and admirers I had in this country, and that he reckoned himself in the number, from the pleasure he had received from the reading of many passages in my works. When he had finished, his brother, the Count de P., who is two years younger, began his discourse, and informed me, that I had been long...
第 60 頁 - ... is sufficiently obvious. By carrying on a connected series of important events, and indicating their relations to the contemporary history of mankind, a meridian is traced (if I may use the expression) through the vast and crowded map of time ; and a line of reference is exhibited to the mind, for marking the bearings of those subordinate occurrences, in the multiplicity of which its powers would have been lost.
第 53 頁 - But what a fancy is this you have taken of saying always an hand, an heart, an head? Have you an ear? Do you not know that this n is added before vowels to prevent the cacophony, and ought never to take place before h when that letter is sounded?
第 96 頁 - One is also plagued with his notes, according to the present method of printing the book: when a note is announced, you turn to the end of the volume; and there you often find nothing but a reference to an authority. All these authorities ought only to be printed at the margin, or the bottom of the page.
第 52 頁 - I propose to myself great pleasure in being the only man in England, during some months, who will be in the situation of doing you justice ; after which you may certainly expect that my voice will be drowned in that of the public.
第 40 頁 - The book, they tell me, is perfectly well wrote ; yet it has had such small sale, and has so little excited the attention of the public, that the author has reason to think his labour thrown away. I have not read the book ; but by the size, I should judge it to be too particular. It is a pretty large quarto. I think a book of that...
第 169 頁 - I can only say, that I eat nothing but ambrosia, drink nothing but nectar, breathe nothing but incense, and tread on nothing but flowers. Every man I meet, and still more every lady, would think they were wanting in the most indispensable duty if they did not make to me a long and elaborate harangue in my praise. What happened last week, when I had the honour of being presented to the D n's children at Versailles, is one of the most curious scenes I ever yet passed through.
第 22 頁 - ... publication. I have not heard of one who does not praise it warmly ; and were I to enumerate all those whose suffrages I have either heard in its favour, or been told of, I should fill my letter with a list of names. Mallet told me that he was sure there was no Englishman capable of composing such a work. The town will have it that you was educated at Oxford, thinking it impossible for a mere untravelled Scotchman to produce such language.
第 313 頁 - God lighted upon it for their falsehood and disloyalty. Do what you can, out of hand, and without long tarrying, to beat down...