The Journal of a Voyage to LisbonA. Millar, 1755 - 276 páginas |
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Página ii
... things ; both which are best known by compa- rifon . If the customs and manners of men were every where the fame , there would be no office fo dull as that of a tra- veller for the difference of hills , val- leys , rivers ; in fhort ...
... things ; both which are best known by compa- rifon . If the customs and manners of men were every where the fame , there would be no office fo dull as that of a tra- veller for the difference of hills , val- leys , rivers ; in fhort ...
Página iv
... things which a tra- veller is to record , there are fewer on which he is to offer his observations : this is the office of the reader , and it is fo pleasant a one , that he seldom chufes to have it taken from him , un- der the pretence ...
... things which a tra- veller is to record , there are fewer on which he is to offer his observations : this is the office of the reader , and it is fo pleasant a one , that he seldom chufes to have it taken from him , un- der the pretence ...
Página v
... thing , I think , half fo valuable as know- ledge , and yet there is nothing which men will give themselves fo little trouble to attain ; unless it be , perhaps , that lowest degree of it which is the object of curiofity , and which ...
... thing , I think , half fo valuable as know- ledge , and yet there is nothing which men will give themselves fo little trouble to attain ; unless it be , perhaps , that lowest degree of it which is the object of curiofity , and which ...
Página ix
... thing they touch feems to exist in the very manner they reprefent it : their portraits are fo juft , and their landscapes fo beau- . tiful , that we acknowledge the ftrokes of nature in both , without enquiring whether nature herself ...
... thing they touch feems to exist in the very manner they reprefent it : their portraits are fo juft , and their landscapes fo beau- . tiful , that we acknowledge the ftrokes of nature in both , without enquiring whether nature herself ...
Página xii
... things and facts of fo common a kind , that they challenge no other right of being remembered , than as they had the ... thing in the detail of his journal . That the fact is true , is fufficient to give it a place there , without any ...
... things and facts of fo common a kind , that they challenge no other right of being remembered , than as they had the ... thing in the detail of his journal . That the fact is true , is fufficient to give it a place there , without any ...
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