Journal of a Voyage to LisbonCambridge University Press, 1913 - 116 páginas |
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... hath seen . Nature is not , any more than a great genius , always admirable in her productions , and therefore the traveller , who may be called her commentator , should not expect to find every where subjects worthy of his notice . It ...
... hath seen . Nature is not , any more than a great genius , always admirable in her productions , and therefore the traveller , who may be called her commentator , should not expect to find every where subjects worthy of his notice . It ...
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... hath been a most parsimonious distributor of her richest talents , and hath seldom bestowed many on the same person . But on the other hand , why there should scarce exist a single writer of this kind worthy our regard ; and whilst ...
... hath been a most parsimonious distributor of her richest talents , and hath seldom bestowed many on the same person . But on the other hand , why there should scarce exist a single writer of this kind worthy our regard ; and whilst ...
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... hath ever seen , and with adventures which never have nor could possibly have happened to them , they waste their time and paper with recording things and facts of so common a kind , that they challenge no other right of being ...
... hath ever seen , and with adventures which never have nor could possibly have happened to them , they waste their time and paper with recording things and facts of so common a kind , that they challenge no other right of being ...
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Henry Fielding J. H. Lobban. made a horrid dupe of my judgment , if it hath flattered me with an expectation of having any thing here seen in a grave light , or of conveying any useful instruction to the public , or to their guardians ...
Henry Fielding J. H. Lobban. made a horrid dupe of my judgment , if it hath flattered me with an expectation of having any thing here seen in a grave light , or of conveying any useful instruction to the public , or to their guardians ...
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... hath not been universally practised ) and by refusing to take a shilling from a man who most undoubtedly would not have had another left , I had reduced an income of about £ 5001 a year of the dirtiest money 1 A predecessor of mine used ...
... hath not been universally practised ) and by refusing to take a shilling from a man who most undoubtedly would not have had another left , I had reduced an income of about £ 5001 a year of the dirtiest money 1 A predecessor of mine used ...
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