Journal of a tour and residence in Great Britain, during ... 1810 and 1811, by a French traveller [L. Simond].1815 |
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... FRENCH TRAVELLER : WITH REMARKS ON THE COUNTRY , ITS ARTS , LITERATURE , AND POLITICS , AND ON THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF ITS INHABITANTS . VOLUME FIRST . EDINBURGH : PRINTED BY GEORGE RAMSAY AND COMPANY , FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND ...
... FRENCH TRAVELLER : WITH REMARKS ON THE COUNTRY , ITS ARTS , LITERATURE , AND POLITICS , AND ON THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF ITS INHABITANTS . VOLUME FIRST . EDINBURGH : PRINTED BY GEORGE RAMSAY AND COMPANY , FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND ...
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... French ; when it was suggested to me , that , as it could not at that time have been printed on the Continent , if it had any success at all in this country , it would be translated imme- diately , and , in all likelihood , very ...
... French ; when it was suggested to me , that , as it could not at that time have been printed on the Continent , if it had any success at all in this country , it would be translated imme- diately , and , in all likelihood , very ...
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... French original . I am perfectly aware of the double danger to which a foreigner , offering to the English public an account of England , written in the English language , exposes himself . Any apo- logy on the subject , would , I know ...
... French original . I am perfectly aware of the double danger to which a foreigner , offering to the English public an account of England , written in the English language , exposes himself . Any apo- logy on the subject , would , I know ...
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... French travels in England had come to his knowledge deserving of notice . M. Faujas de St Fond gave all his attention to minerals ; Madame Roland , Madame de Genlis , and Madame de Stael , have spoken incidentally of what they have seen ...
... French travels in England had come to his knowledge deserving of notice . M. Faujas de St Fond gave all his attention to minerals ; Madame Roland , Madame de Genlis , and Madame de Stael , have spoken incidentally of what they have seen ...
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... French tourists . In short , he might hope to do better what none had done well . Private anecdotes have been excluded as much as possible . It is a great sacrifice ; for they do not merely amuse the reader , but they initiate him into ...
... French tourists . In short , he might hope to do better what none had done well . Private anecdotes have been excluded as much as possible . It is a great sacrifice ; for they do not merely amuse the reader , but they initiate him into ...
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Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years ..., Volume 1 Louis Simond Visualização integral - 1817 |
Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years ..., Volume 1 Louis Simond Visualização integral - 1817 |
Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years ..., Volume 1 Louis Simond Visualização integral - 1817 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
a-day a-year acre America appear beautiful Buttermere called carriages castle certainly colouring court cultivation Dalmally direx door Edinburgh eight England English favourable feet high foot France French give half hand head Highlands hills honour horses inhabitants labour ladies lake land laws Leonardo de Vinci less liberty light Loch Loch Katrine Loch Long London look Lord Macbeth means members of Parliament ment miles ministers morning MOUNT EDGECUMBE mountains natural object observed Parliament party persons political poor present prodigious remarkable rent rich river road rocks round Scotch Scotland seat seems seen sheep shew shewn side sight Sir Francis Sir Francis Burdett Sir William Petty Skipton sort sterling stone Stourhead streets taste thing tion town trees ture twenty Walcheren walk whole Windermere
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Página 367 - Equity is a roguish thing : for law we have a measure, know what to trust to ; equity is according to the conscience of him that is chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is equity. "Tis all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a foot...
Página 136 - Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time 'to do't. — Hell is murky! — Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? — Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
Página 153 - Here let us sweep The boundless landscape; now the raptured eye, Exulting swift, to huge Augusta send, Now to the sister hills that skirt her plain, To lofty Harrow now, and now to where Majestic Windsor lifts his princely brow.
Página 136 - tis time to do't. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie ! a soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? Doct. Do you mark that? Lady M. The thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean? No more o' that, my lord, no more o' that: you mar all with this starting.
Página 134 - Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely? From this time, Such I account thy love. Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour, As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem ; Letting I dare not wait upon I would, Like the poor cat i
Página 134 - Be so much more the man. Nor time nor place Did then adhere, and yet you would make both : They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.
Página 322 - Crags, knolls, and mounds, confusedly hurled, The fragments of an earlier world ; A wildering forest feathered o'er His ruined sides and summit hoar, While on the north, through middle air, Ben-an heaved high his forehead bare. xv. From the steep promontory gazed The stranger, raptured and amazed, And,
Página 173 - For forms of government let fools contest— That which is best administered is best...
Página 134 - Like the poor cat i' the adage ? Macbeth. Prithee, peace : I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. Lady Macbeth. What beast was't then That made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would 50 Be so much more the man.
Página 222 - ... for setting to work all such persons, married or unmarried, having no means to maintain them, and use no ordinary and daily trade of life to get their living by...