 ... they were collected are of vast extent, and without much exuberance of people great armies may be raised where every man is a soldier. But their true numbers were never known, Those who were conquered by them are their historians, and shame may have...  A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland - Page 123by Samuel Johnson (écrivain.) - 1816 - 208 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 550 pages
...conquered by them are their hiftoriansj and fhame may have excited them to lay, that they were overwhelmed with multitudes. To count is a modern practice, the ancient method was to guefs ; and when numbers are gucfled, they are always magnified. Thus England has for feveral years... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...conquered by them are their hiftorians, and fhame may have excited them to fay, that they were overwhelmed with multitudes. To count is a modern practice, the ancient method was to guefs ; and when numbers are gueffed, they are always magnified. Thus England has for feveral years... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1800 - 302 pages
...Highland regiment, consisting of twelve hundred, only seventy-six \ survived to see their country again. method was to guess ; and when numbers are guessed they are always magnified. The Gothic swarms have at least been multiplied with equal liberality. That they bore no great proportion... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...conquered by them are their hiftorians, and fhame may have excited them to fay, that they were overwhelmed with multitudes. To .count is a modern practice, the ancient method was to guefs ; and when numbers are guefled, they are always magnified. Thus England has for feveral years... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 432 pages
...conquered by them are their hiftorians, and fhame may have excited them to fay, that they were overwhelmed with multitudes. To count is a modern practice, the ancient method was to guefs ; and when numbers are guefled, they are always magnified. Thus England has for feveral years... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...that we have been accustomed to form, it becomes at last incredible. Idler, vol. 2, f. 129) NUMBERS. To count is a modern practice ; the ancient method...when numbers are guessed, they are always magnified. v Weft era [flands, p. 127. ' NARKATION. Nothing can be more disgusting than a narrative spangled with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1806 - 360 pages
...conquered by them are their historians, and shame may have excited them to say, that they were overwhelmed with multitudes. To count is a modern practice, the ancient method was to guess ; an3 when numbers are guessed, they are always magnified. Thus England has for several years been... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pages
...conquered by them are their historians, and shame may have excited them to say, that they were overwhelmed with multitudes. To count is a modern, practice, the...been filled with the achievements of seventy thousand High* landers employed in America. I have heard from an English officer, not much inclined to favour... | |
 | John Walker - English language - 1810 - 276 pages
...time, than a whole life spent in detached and desultory inquiries. am. To count, says Dr. Johnson, is a modern practice : the ancient method was to guess...when numbers are guessed, they are always magnified. it. It is an injunction of St. Paul to the Corinthians, that in the management of ecclesiastical affairs,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...conquered by them are their historians, and shame may have excited them to say, that they were overwhelmed with multitudes. To count is a modern practice, the...; but their number has been much exaggerated. One ef the ministers told me, that seventy thousand men could not have been found in all the Highlands,... | |
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