Journal of a Voyage to LisbonCambridge University Press, 1913 - 116 páginas |
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Página xi
... give his letters the unity of a plot by making them relate the persecution of the virtuous Pamela at the hands of her em- ployer . The scheme of the book is best indicated by a fragment of its very voluminous sub - title which declares ...
... give his letters the unity of a plot by making them relate the persecution of the virtuous Pamela at the hands of her em- ployer . The scheme of the book is best indicated by a fragment of its very voluminous sub - title which declares ...
Página xiii
... gives us many memorable sidelights on the London of the mid - eighteenth century . Amelia , a novel be- ginning and not ending with marriage , is also of supreme biographical interest . For many traits of the erring Captain Booth are ...
... gives us many memorable sidelights on the London of the mid - eighteenth century . Amelia , a novel be- ginning and not ending with marriage , is also of supreme biographical interest . For many traits of the erring Captain Booth are ...
Página xv
... give any man his purse he can't help kindness and profusion . He may have low tastes , but not a mean mind ; he admires with all his heart good and virtuous men , stoops to no flattery , bears no rancour , disdains all disloyal acts ...
... give any man his purse he can't help kindness and profusion . He may have low tastes , but not a mean mind ; he admires with all his heart good and virtuous men , stoops to no flattery , bears no rancour , disdains all disloyal acts ...
Página 3
... pleasure worthy of his labour ; and surely it would give him very little opportunity of communi- cating any kind of entertainment or improvement to others . L. F. I To make a traveller an agreeable companion to a man THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE I.
... pleasure worthy of his labour ; and surely it would give him very little opportunity of communi- cating any kind of entertainment or improvement to others . L. F. I To make a traveller an agreeable companion to a man THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE I.
Página 5
... give themselves so little trouble to attain ; unless it be , perhaps , that lowest degree of it which is the object of curiosity , and which hath therefore that active passion constantly employed in its service . This , indeed , it is ...
... give themselves so little trouble to attain ; unless it be , perhaps , that lowest degree of it which is the object of curiosity , and which hath therefore that active passion constantly employed in its service . This , indeed , it is ...
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