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A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland AND The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (Penguin Classics) by Samuel Johnson
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November 9, 2023
Wonderful.
Notes:
Johnson's Journey, 1775:
53 ... That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected.
64 ... Mountaineers are thievish because they are poor
72 ... Whisky signifies water
83 ... smallpox inoculation, Shetland Islands, 1773
87 ... formed an acquaintance, begun by kindness, accidentally continued by constraint: we derived much pleasure from it, and I hope have given him no reason to repent it.
96 ... no admonition promotes negligence
97 ... kilts: compelled to a new dress painful
120 ... at 77 it is time to be in earnest
134 ... trees: frightful interval between the seed and timber
136 ... islanders ignorance, Newton's gravity
Boswell's Journal, 1786
163 ... travelling in post-chaises was one of his most favorite amusements
234 ... no man will be a sailor, who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned
238 ... pretty goats! LUDICROUS
footnotes 318 ... kiss and sit on lap, see who tires first
329 Epictetus always be ready for death
335 cucumber recipe
348 melancholics hat gay people Epioctetus
351 I shall write his bio
353 He knew a drum from a trumpet
354 Let us glean Johnsoniana
377 Happiest time, lying awake in bed
Notes:
Johnson's Journey, 1775:
53 ... That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected.
64 ... Mountaineers are thievish because they are poor
72 ... Whisky signifies water
83 ... smallpox inoculation, Shetland Islands, 1773
87 ... formed an acquaintance, begun by kindness, accidentally continued by constraint: we derived much pleasure from it, and I hope have given him no reason to repent it.
96 ... no admonition promotes negligence
97 ... kilts: compelled to a new dress painful
120 ... at 77 it is time to be in earnest
134 ... trees: frightful interval between the seed and timber
136 ... islanders ignorance, Newton's gravity
Boswell's Journal, 1786
163 ... travelling in post-chaises was one of his most favorite amusements
234 ... no man will be a sailor, who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned
238 ... pretty goats! LUDICROUS
footnotes 318 ... kiss and sit on lap, see who tires first
329 Epictetus always be ready for death
335 cucumber recipe
348 melancholics hat gay people Epioctetus
351 I shall write his bio
353 He knew a drum from a trumpet
354 Let us glean Johnsoniana
377 Happiest time, lying awake in bed
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