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" To expand the human face to its full perfection, it seems necessary that the mind should cooperate by placidness of content, or consciousness of superiority. "
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland - Page 144
by Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 288 pages
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The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ...

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...by want, and sometimes hardened by blasts. Supreme beauty is seldom found in cottages, or workshops, even where no real hardships are suffered. To- expand...placidness of content, or consciousness of superiority. Weftern Iflands, p, 190. Beauty is so little -subject to the examination of reason, that Paschal supposes...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1806 - 360 pages
...want, and sometimes hardened by the blasts. Supreme beauty is seldom found in cottages or workshops, even where no real hardships are suffered. To expand...their size, but they are accustomed to run upon rough groundt and therefore can with great agility skip over the bog, or clamber the mountain. For a campaign...
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The British Tourist's, Or, Traveller's Pocket Companion, Through ..., Volume 2

William Fordyce Mavor - Great Britain - 1809 - 378 pages
...and *ametimes hardened by the blasts. Supreme beauty is seldom found in cottages or workshops, eveu .where no real hardships are suffered. To expand the...they are accustomed to run upon rough ground, and therefote can with great agility skip over the bog, or clamber the mountain. For a campaign in the...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson: With an Essay on His Life and Genius

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pages
...want, and sometimes hardened by the blasts. Supreme beauty is seldom found in cottages or workshops, even where no real hardships are suffered. To expand...proportionate to their size, but they are accustomed to run upou rough ground, £ a and and therefore can with great agility skip over the bog, or clamber the...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 8

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...want, and sometimes hardened by the blasts. Supreme beauty is seldom found in cottages or workshops, even where no real hardships are suffered. To expand...seems necessary that the mind should cooperate by plaeidness of content, or consciousness of superiority. Their strength is proportionate to their size,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 8

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 432 pages
...want, and sometimes hardened by the blasts. Supreme beauty is seldom found in cottages or workshops, even where no real hardships are suffered. To expand...consciousness of superiority. Their strength is proportionate ta their size, but they are accustomed to run upon rough ground, and therefore can with great agility...
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The Flowers of Modern Travels: Being Elegant, Entertaining and ..., Volume 2

John Adams - Voyages and travels - 1816 - 352 pages
...want, and sometimes hardened by the blasts. Supreme beauty is seldom found in cottages or work-shops, even where no real hardships are suffered. To expand...mind should cooperate by placidness of content, or conciousness of superiority. Their strength is proportionate to their size, but they are accustomed...
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A Treatise on the Records of the Creation: And on the Moral ..., Volume 1

John Bird Sumner - Creation - 1818 - 416 pages
...of the instances which have been adduced also confirm the opinion of Johnson, who remarks*, that " to expand the human face to its full perfection, it...placidness of content, or consciousness of superiority." But, without attempting to account for the fact, the fact itself is indisputable, that in every climate,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.: Containing essays, tracts, and Journey

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 424 pages
...want, and sometimes hardened by the blasts. Supreme beauty is seldom found in cottages or workshops, even where no real hardships are suffered. To expand the human face to its full perfection, it seems necessanr that the mind should co-operate by placidness of content, or consciousness of superiority....
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Journey to the Hebrides. Tales of the ...

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 608 pages
...want, and sometimes hardened by the blasts. Supreme beauty is seldom found in cottages or workshops, even where no real hardships are suffered. To expand...proportionate to their size, but they are accustomed to inn upon rough ground, and, therefore, can with great agility skip over the bog, or clamber the mountain....
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