...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...

...nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.— Mrs. Stouse. t with wondrous potency.— Shakespeare. HABIT. HAND. Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes labor. — Johnson. A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity lodged in Heel), and may...

...impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, no that the weak become во mighty.— Mrs. Stowe. values be V — What was real estate worth in Sodom '/ —HL Waylaud. To that moat direct the man of labor. — Johnson. A great, a good, and a right mind is a kind of divinity...

...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...to enjoy, contributes little to human happiness. As r^ As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society the |_man of intelligence must direct the...

...the older values and helping to drive the Highlanders into emigration, he writes bitingly: 'To make a country plentiful by diminishing the people, is an...nobody to enjoy, contributes little to human happiness' (p. 79). In all this, Johnson is perhaps less a devotee of wildness than a conservative critic of the...

...especially if one recognizes the addiction of a primitive people to "wild justice" and revenge: "To make a country plentiful by diminishing the people, is an...there is nobody to enjoy, contributes little to human happiness."53 Like David Hume, Adam Smith, and a score of other literary figures, Johnson valued the...

...middlemen, that could equally well describe his conception of the intellectual as the mediator of culture, "so in every society the man of intelligence must direct the man of labour" (p. 88). ^ Visiting the Lowlands during its period of greatest cultural vitality, Johnson's melancholy,...

...commercialism. The tacksman was necessary to combat the inferior acumen for improvement among the lower orders: "As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society...labour. If the tacksmen be taken away, the Hebrides must m their present state be given up to grossness and ignorance; the tenant, for want of instruction,...

...necessary that the mind should cooperate by placidness of content or consciousness of superiority. . . . As the mind must govern the hands, so in every society...intelligence must direct the man of labour. If the takman be taken away the Hebrides must in their present state be given up to grossness and ignorance....

...[the official leaseholder of the Chief's lands, who collected rent from tenants] is easy, to make a country plentiful by diminishing the people, is an...nobody to enjoy, contributes little to human happiness" (79). In his efforts to increase the Highlanders' happiness, Johnson knows that simple solutions, especially...