The Journal of a Voyage to LisbonA. Millar, 1755 - 276 páginas |
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Página i
... informa- tion of mankind . If the converfation of travellers be fo eagerly fought after as it is , we may believe their books will be ftill more agreeable company , as they will , B will , in general , be more inftructive and more ...
... informa- tion of mankind . If the converfation of travellers be fo eagerly fought after as it is , we may believe their books will be ftill more agreeable company , as they will , B will , in general , be more inftructive and more ...
Página ii
... travellers is ufually fo welcome , I must be understood to mean that only of such as have had good fenfe enough to apply ... traveller an agreeable com- panion to a man of fenfe , it is neceffary , not only that he fhould have feen much ...
... travellers is ufually fo welcome , I must be understood to mean that only of such as have had good fenfe enough to apply ... traveller an agreeable com- panion to a man of fenfe , it is neceffary , not only that he fhould have feen much ...
Página iii
... traveller , who may be called her commentator , fhould not expect to find every where fubjects worthy of his notice . It is certain , indeed , that one may be guilty of omiflion as well as of the oppofite extreme : but a fault on that ...
... traveller , who may be called her commentator , fhould not expect to find every where fubjects worthy of his notice . It is certain , indeed , that one may be guilty of omiflion as well as of the oppofite extreme : but a fault on that ...
Página v
... traveller to gratify ; but it is the leading principle in weak minds only . To render his relation agreeable to the man of fenfe , it is therefore necef- fary that the voyager fhould poffels fe- veral eminent and rare talents ; fo rare ...
... traveller to gratify ; but it is the leading principle in weak minds only . To render his relation agreeable to the man of fenfe , it is therefore necef- fary that the voyager fhould poffels fe- veral eminent and rare talents ; fo rare ...
Página xiii
... traveller fends into the world in many volumes , and others are , by ju- dicious bookfellers , collected into vaft bodies in folo , and infcribed with their own names , as if they were indeed their own own travels ; thus unjustly ...
... traveller fends into the world in many volumes , and others are , by ju- dicious bookfellers , collected into vaft bodies in folo , and infcribed with their own names , as if they were indeed their own own travels ; thus unjustly ...
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