The Journal of a Voyage to LisbonA. Millar, 1755 - 276 páginas |
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Página vi
... fuch writers as thefe fhould be found extremely com- mon ; fince nature hath been a moft parfimonious diftributer of her richest talents , and hath feldom bestowed many on the fame perfon . But on the other hand , why there fhould ...
... fuch writers as thefe fhould be found extremely com- mon ; fince nature hath been a moft parfimonious diftributer of her richest talents , and hath feldom bestowed many on the fame perfon . But on the other hand , why there fhould ...
Página ix
... fuch pretenfions . to indulgence : they lye for lying fake , or in order infolently to impose the most monftrous improbabilities and abfurdi- ties upon their readers on their own authority ; treating them as fome fathers treat children ...
... fuch pretenfions . to indulgence : they lye for lying fake , or in order infolently to impose the most monftrous improbabilities and abfurdi- ties upon their readers on their own authority ; treating them as fome fathers treat children ...
Página x
... fuch most abfurd fuppofitions ; I reply , the fact is not true . They have known nothing of the matter , and have be- lieved they knew not what . It is , in- deed , with me no matter of doubt , but that the pope and his clergy might ...
... fuch most abfurd fuppofitions ; I reply , the fact is not true . They have known nothing of the matter , and have be- lieved they knew not what . It is , in- deed , with me no matter of doubt , but that the pope and his clergy might ...
Página xii
... fuch confequence do his own actions appear to one of this kind , that he would probably think himself guilty of infidelity , fhould he omit the minutest thing in the detail of his journal . That the fact is true , is fufficient to give ...
... fuch confequence do his own actions appear to one of this kind , that he would probably think himself guilty of infidelity , fhould he omit the minutest thing in the detail of his journal . That the fact is true , is fufficient to give ...
Página xv
... fuch inftruction or information with an air of joke and laughter , none but the dulleft of fellows will , I believe , cen- fure it ; but if they fhould , I have the authority of more than one paffage in Horace to alledge in my defence ...
... fuch inftruction or information with an air of joke and laughter , none but the dulleft of fellows will , I believe , cen- fure it ; but if they fhould , I have the authority of more than one paffage in Horace to alledge in my defence ...
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