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There is a paper of his on the Inland Navigation of the County of Salop, contained in 'The Agricultural Survey of Shropshire, in which he speaks of the judicious use of railways, and recommends that in all future surveys "it be an instruction to the engineers that they do examine the county with a view of introducing iron railways wherever difficulties may occur with regard to the making of navigable canals."
See post, June 3, 1784, where Johnson again mentions this. In The Spectator, No. 536, Addison recommends knotting, which was, he says, again in fashion, as an employment for 'the most idle part of the kingdom; I mean that part of mankind who are known by the name of the women's-men, or beaus, etc. In The Universal Passion, Satire i, Young says of fame:
He also recommends, in conformity with the views of the Judge-Advocate-General, some declaratory legislation in reference to the military statute of limitations as applied to the crime of desertion. In these several recommendations I concur. The Secretary of War further reports that the work for the improvement of the South Pass of the Mississippi River, under contract with Mr.
In subsequent letters he recommends the issuing of a proclamation on the subject by the president, and sent a draft of one to Washington.
"At least you don't speak well of him." "That is because I am not his friend," said she, sighing, "but his victim!" "But this letter in which he recommends you to me?" "Is an order for me to confine myself to a sort of prison, from which he will release me by one of his satellites." "But why have you not fled?" "Whither should I go?
She recommends, under strict limitations, the treadmill for hardened, refractory, and depraved women, but only for short periods.
Roger Morton recommends you a relation unfortunate circumstances well educated hum! Well, young man, what have you to say for yourself?" "Sir?" "Can you cast accounts? know bookkeeping?" "I know something of algebra, sir." "Algebra! oh, what else?" "French and Latin." "Hum! may be useful. Why do you wear your hair so long? look at mine. What's your name?" "Philip Morton." "Mr.
And yet as Horace, centuries ago remarked, whatever is communicated to the ear excites the mind far more feebly than what is exhibited to the trusty eye, and the spectator informs himself of. What he recommends to be withdrawn from observation is only the incredible and the revoltingly cruel.
The congress believes that the warlike prejudices and traditions which are still fostered in the various nationalities, and the misrepresentations by leaders of public opinion in legislative assemblies or through the press, are often indirect causes of war, and that these evils should be counteracted by the publication of accurate information tending to the removal of misunderstanding between nations, and recommends the importance of considering the question of commencing an international newspaper with such a purpose.
In such a case it is expedient to abandon the form of science, which exercises too great violence over the imagination, and can only be made acceptable through the importance of the object in view. Instead of this, it is proper to choose the form of beauty, which, independent of the contents or subject, recommends itself by its very appearance.
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