The Journal of a Voyage to LisbonA. Millar, 1755 - 276 páginas |
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Página ii
... kind of en- tertainment or improvement to others . To make a traveller an agreeable com- panion to a man of fenfe , it is neceffary , not only that he fhould have feen much , but that he should have overlooked much of what he hath feen ...
... kind of en- tertainment or improvement to others . To make a traveller an agreeable com- panion to a man of fenfe , it is neceffary , not only that he fhould have feen much , but that he should have overlooked much of what he hath feen ...
Página vi
... kind worthy our regard ; and whilft there is no other branch of history ( for this is history ) which hath not exercifed the greatest pens , why this alone fhould be over- looked by all men of great genius and erudition , and delivered ...
... kind worthy our regard ; and whilft there is no other branch of history ( for this is history ) which hath not exercifed the greatest pens , why this alone fhould be over- looked by all men of great genius and erudition , and delivered ...
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 xi
... writings , and fometimes , I believe , in the actions of men . There is another fault of a kind directly op- pofite to this , to which thefe writers are B 6 fome- te fometimes liable , when , instead of fill- ing The PREFACE . xi.
... writings , and fometimes , I believe , in the actions of men . There is another fault of a kind directly op- pofite to this , to which thefe writers are B 6 fome- te fometimes liable , when , instead of fill- ing The PREFACE . xi.
Página xii
... kind , that they challenge no other right of being remembered , than as they had the honour of having happened to the author , to whom nothing feems trivial that in any manner happens to himself . Of fuch confequence do his own actions ...
... kind , that they challenge no other right of being remembered , than as they had the honour of having happened to the author , to whom nothing feems trivial that in any manner happens to himself . Of fuch confequence do his own actions ...
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