The Highlanders regale themselves with whisky. They find it an excellent preservation against the winter cold. It is given with great success to the infants in the confluent smallpox.
Opposition is the very spur of love. - Tobias Smollett
Opposition is the very spur of love.
- Tobias Smollett
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge m… - Tobias Smollett
A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge m…
There is not room to swing a cat. - Tobias Smollett
There is not room to swing a cat.
Glory is the child of peril. - Tobias Smollett
Glory is the child of peril.
The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support. - Tobias Smollett
The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.
Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age. - Tobias Smollett
Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.
Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions. - Tobias Smollett
Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions.
To the valiant actions speak alone. - Tobias Smollett
To the valiant actions speak alone.
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall. - Tobias Smollett
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
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