The Journal of a Voyage to LisbonA. Millar, 1755 - 276 páginas |
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Página iv
... reader , and it is fo pleasant a one , that he seldom chufes to have it taken from him , un- der the pretence of lending him affist- ance . Some occafions , indeed , there are , when proper observations are per- tinent , and others when ...
... reader , and it is fo pleasant a one , that he seldom chufes to have it taken from him , un- der the pretence of lending him affist- ance . Some occafions , indeed , there are , when proper observations are per- tinent , and others when ...
Página ix
... readers on their own authority ; treating them as fome fathers treat children , and as other fathers do lay - men ,, exacting their belief of what- B 5 ever ever they relate , on no other foundation than their The ix PREFACE .
... readers on their own authority ; treating them as fome fathers treat children , and as other fathers do lay - men ,, exacting their belief of what- B 5 ever ever they relate , on no other foundation than their The ix PREFACE .
Página xv
... reader will eafily perceive it is not introduced for its own fake , but for fome obfervations and re- flections naturally refulting from it ; and which , if but little to his amusement , tend directly to the inftruction of the reader ...
... reader will eafily perceive it is not introduced for its own fake , but for fome obfervations and re- flections naturally refulting from it ; and which , if but little to his amusement , tend directly to the inftruction of the reader ...
Página xvi
... reader ; and it is all the task that I impofe on him . A mode- ration for which he may think himself obliged to me , when he compares it with the conduct of authors , who of- ten fill a whole fheet with their own praises , to which they ...
... reader ; and it is all the task that I impofe on him . A mode- ration for which he may think himself obliged to me , when he compares it with the conduct of authors , who of- ten fill a whole fheet with their own praises , to which they ...
Página 25
... reader fhould be too eager to catch at the word vanity , and fhould be unwilling to indulge me with fo fublime a gratification , for I think he is not too apt to gratify me , I will take my key a pitch lower , and will frankly own that ...
... reader fhould be too eager to catch at the word vanity , and fhould be unwilling to indulge me with fo fublime a gratification , for I think he is not too apt to gratify me , I will take my key a pitch lower , and will frankly own that ...
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