The Journal of a Voyage to LisbonA. Millar, 1755 - 276 páginas |
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Página iv
... former which doth not convey fome knowledge that they are fenfible they could not poffibly have attained of themselves . BUT all his pains in collecting know- ledge , all his judgment in selecting , and all his art in communicating it ...
... former which doth not convey fome knowledge that they are fenfible they could not poffibly have attained of themselves . BUT all his pains in collecting know- ledge , all his judgment in selecting , and all his art in communicating it ...
Página vi
... . Of these I fhall willingly ad- mit Burnet and Addison ; if the former was not perhaps to be confidered as a political effayift , and the latter as a com- commentator on the claffics , rather than as a writer vi The PREFACE .
... . Of these I fhall willingly ad- mit Burnet and Addison ; if the former was not perhaps to be confidered as a political effayift , and the latter as a com- commentator on the claffics , rather than as a writer vi The PREFACE .
Página vii
... , the Te- lemachus , and all of that kind , are to the voyage - writing I here intend , what romance is to true hiftory , the former being the confounder and corrupter of B 4 the the latter . I am far from fuppofing , that The PREFACE .
... , the Te- lemachus , and all of that kind , are to the voyage - writing I here intend , what romance is to true hiftory , the former being the confounder and corrupter of B 4 the the latter . I am far from fuppofing , that The PREFACE .
Página x
... former ages , and to the experience of our own , and which no man can at once understand and believe . If it fhould be objected ( and it can no where be objected better than where I now write * , as there is no where more pomp of ...
... former ages , and to the experience of our own , and which no man can at once understand and believe . If it fhould be objected ( and it can no where be objected better than where I now write * , as there is no where more pomp of ...
Página 49
... former you pay largely for luxury , at the latter for nothing . ; Thurfday , June 27. THIS morning the captain , who lay on fhore at his own house , paid us a vifit in the cabin and after having exprefs'd his concern at the ...
... former you pay largely for luxury , at the latter for nothing . ; Thurfday , June 27. THIS morning the captain , who lay on fhore at his own house , paid us a vifit in the cabin and after having exprefs'd his concern at the ...
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