Journal of a Voyage to LisbonCambridge University Press, 1913 - 116 páginas |
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... truth , the keenest instinctive antipathy to hypocrisy , the happiest satirical gift of laughing it to scorn . His wit is wonderfully wise and detective ; it flashes upon a rogue and lightens up a rascal like a policeman's lantern . He ...
... truth , the keenest instinctive antipathy to hypocrisy , the happiest satirical gift of laughing it to scorn . His wit is wonderfully wise and detective ; it flashes upon a rogue and lightens up a rascal like a policeman's lantern . He ...
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... truth between relator and hearer , as it is between author and reader ; this is , that the latter never forgive any observation of the former which doth not convey some knowledge that they are sensible they could not possibly have ...
... truth between relator and hearer , as it is between author and reader ; this is , that the latter never forgive any observation of the former which doth not convey some knowledge that they are sensible they could not possibly have ...
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... truth than any other voyage extant ; my lord Anson's alone being , perhaps , excepted . Some few embellishments must be allowed to every historian : for we are not to conceive that the speeches in Livy , Sallust , or Thucydides , were ...
... truth than any other voyage extant ; my lord Anson's alone being , perhaps , excepted . Some few embellishments must be allowed to every historian : for we are not to conceive that the speeches in Livy , Sallust , or Thucydides , were ...
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... truth ; and where the political reflections form so distinguishing a part . But perhaps I may hear , from some critic of the most saturnine complexion , that my vanity must have made a horrid dupe of my judgment , if it 8 THE AUTHOR'S ...
... truth ; and where the political reflections form so distinguishing a part . But perhaps I may hear , from some critic of the most saturnine complexion , that my vanity must have made a horrid dupe of my judgment , if it 8 THE AUTHOR'S ...
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... truth is , the fees are so very low , when any are due , and so much is done for nothing , that if a single justice of peace had business enough to employ twenty clerks , neither he nor they would get much by their labour . The public ...
... truth is , the fees are so very low , when any are due , and so much is done for nothing , that if a single justice of peace had business enough to employ twenty clerks , neither he nor they would get much by their labour . The public ...
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