 To banish, the tacksman is easy, to make a country plentiful by diminishing the people, is an expeditious mode of husbandry ; but that abundance, which there is nobody to enjoy, contributes little to human happiness. As the mind must govern the hands,...  A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland - Seite 152von Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 288 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 Seiten
...soldier may expedite his march by throwing away his arms. To banjsh. the tacksman is easy, to make a country plentiful by diminishing the people, is an...intelligence must direct the man of labour. If the tacksman be taken away, the Hebrides must in their present state be given np to grossness and ignorance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 398 Seiten
...soldier may expedite his march by throwing away his arms. To banish, the tacksman is easy, to make a country plentiful by diminishing the people, is an...intelligence must direct the man of labour. If the tacksman be taken away, the Hebrides must in their present state be given up to grossness and ignorance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 572 Seiten
...soldier may expedite his march by throwing away his arms. To banish the tacksman is easy, to make a country plentiful by diminishing the people, is an...intelligence must direct the man of labour. If the tacksman be taken away, the Hebrides must in their present state be given up to grossness and ignorance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 608 Seiten
...soldier may expedite his march by throwing away his arms. To banish the tacksman is easy, to make a country plentiful by diminishing the people, is an...intelligence must direct the man of labour. If the tacksman be taken away, the Hebrides must, in their present state, be given up to grossness and ignorance;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 728 Seiten
...soldier may expedite his march by throwing away his arms. To banish the tacksman is easy, to make a country plentiful by diminishing the people, is an...intelligence must direct the man of labour. If the tacksman be taken away, the Hebrides must in their present state be given up to grossness and ignorance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 510 Seiten
...soldier may expedite his march by throwing away his arms. To banish the tacksman is easy, to make a country plentiful by diminishing the people, is an...happiness. As the mind must govern the hands, so in CYery society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labour. If the tacksman be taken away,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 622 Seiten
...dimithe people, » an expeditious mode of husbandry; l>nt that abundance, which there is nobody to qnjoy, contributes little to human happiness. As the mind...intelligence must direct the man of labour. If the tacksman be taken away, the Hebrides irmst, in their present state, be given up to grossness and iprnorance;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 602 Seiten
...soldier may expedite his inarch by throwing away his arms. To banish the tacksman is easy, to make a country plentiful by diminishing the people, is an...but that abundance, which there is nobody to enjoy, con* tributes little to human happiness. As the mind must govern the hands, so, in every society, the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 680 Seiten
...soldier may expedite his march by throwing away his arms. To banish the tacksman is easy, to make a country plentiful by diminishing the people, is an expeditious mode of husbandry ; bat that abundance, which there is nobody to enjoy, contributes little to human happiness. As the... | |
 | 1834 - 536 Seiten
...honesty, punctuality, humanity, charity, the love of our country, and the fear of GOD. BISHOP NEWTON. As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society...man of intelligence must direct the man of labour. DR. JOHMSON. FOR all the blessings which Almighty God in his mercy bestows upon us, he expects and... | |
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