The Journal of a Voyage to LisbonA. Millar, 1755 - 276 páginas |
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Página vi
... 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 .
... 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
... these two , and two or three more , fhould be removed from the mafs , there would remain such a heap of dulnefs behind , that the appel- lation of voyage - writer would not ap- pear very defirable . I AM not here unapprized that old ...
... these two , and two or three more , fhould be removed from the mafs , there would remain such a heap of dulnefs behind , that the appel- lation of voyage - writer would not ap- pear very defirable . I AM not here unapprized that old ...
Página viii
... these with more admiration and aftonifhment , I still read Herodotus , Thucydides and Xenophon , with more amufement and more fatis- faction . THE original poets were not , how- ever , without excufe . They found the limits of nature ...
... these with more admiration and aftonifhment , I still read Herodotus , Thucydides and Xenophon , with more amufement and more fatis- faction . THE original poets were not , how- ever , without excufe . They found the limits of nature ...
Página xiii
... these kinds are , I conceive , all that vaft pile of books which pafs under the names of voyages , travels , adventures , lives , me- moirs , hiftories , & c . fome of which a fingle traveller fends into the world in many volumes , and ...
... these kinds are , I conceive , all that vaft pile of books which pafs under the names of voyages , travels , adventures , lives , me- moirs , hiftories , & c . fome of which a fingle traveller fends into the world in many volumes , and ...
Página xiv
... these faults we have endeavoured to fteer clear in the follow- ing narrative : which , however the con- trary may be infinuated by ignorant , un- learned , and fresh - water critics , who have never travelled either in books or fhips ...
... these faults we have endeavoured to fteer clear in the follow- ing narrative : which , however the con- trary may be infinuated by ignorant , un- learned , and fresh - water critics , who have never travelled either in books or fhips ...
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