Journal of a Voyage to LisbonCambridge University Press, 1913 - 116 páginas |
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... things ; both which are best known by com- parison . If the customs and manners of men were every where the same , there would be no office so dull as that of a traveller : for the difference of hills , valleys , rivers ; in short , the ...
... things ; both which are best known by com- parison . If the customs and manners of men were every where the same , there would be no office so dull as that of a traveller : for the difference of hills , valleys , rivers ; in short , the ...
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... things which a traveller is to record , there are fewer on which he is to offer his observations : this is the office of the reader , and it is so pleasant a one , that he seldom chuses to have it taken from him , under the pretence of ...
... things which a traveller is to record , there are fewer on which he is to offer his observations : this is the office of the reader , and it is so pleasant a one , that he seldom chuses to have it taken from him , under the pretence of ...
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... things and facts of so common a kind , that they challenge no other right of being remembered , than as they had the ... thing in the detail of his journal . That the fact is true , is sufficient to give it a place there , with- out any ...
... things and facts of so common a kind , that they challenge no other right of being remembered , than as they had the ... thing in the detail of his journal . That the fact is true , is sufficient to give it a place there , with- out any ...
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... things : but the task is so very pleasant that I shall leave it wholly to the reader ; and it is all the task that I impose on him . A modera- tion for which he may think himself obliged to me , when he compares it with the conduct of ...
... things : but the task is so very pleasant that I shall leave it wholly to the reader ; and it is all the task that I impose on him . A modera- tion for which he may think himself obliged to me , when he compares it with the conduct of ...
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... thing here seen in a grave light , or of conveying any useful instruction to the public , or to their guardians . I answer with the great man , whom I just now quoted , that my purpose is to convey instruction in the vehicle of ...
... thing here seen in a grave light , or of conveying any useful instruction to the public , or to their guardians . I answer with the great man , whom I just now quoted , that my purpose is to convey instruction in the vehicle of ...
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