The Journal of a Voyage to LisbonA. Millar, 1755 - 276 páginas |
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Página iv
... truth between relator and hear- er , as it is between author and reader ; this is , that the latter never forgive any obfervation of the former which doth not convey fome knowledge that they are fenfible they could not poffibly have ...
... truth between relator and hear- er , as it is between author and reader ; this is , that the latter never forgive any obfervation of the former which doth not convey fome knowledge that they are fenfible they could not poffibly have ...
Página xiv
... truth than any other voyage ex- tant ; my lord Anson's alone being , per- haps , excepted . SOME few embellishments must be allowed to every hiftorian : for we are not to conceive that the fpeeches in Livy , Salluft , or Thucydides ...
... truth than any other voyage ex- tant ; my lord Anson's alone being , per- haps , excepted . SOME few embellishments must be allowed to every hiftorian : for we are not to conceive that the fpeeches in Livy , Salluft , or Thucydides ...
Página xvi
... be the firft ; if this , I fay , be true of a mere work of inven- tion , fure it may well be fo confidered mance ; in a work founded , like this , on truth in xvi The PREFACE . pleafing task, and fall at once to the di- ...
... be the firft ; if this , I fay , be true of a mere work of inven- tion , fure it may well be fo confidered mance ; in a work founded , like this , on truth in xvi The PREFACE . pleafing task, and fall at once to the di- ...
Página xvii
Henry Fielding. in a work founded , like this , on truth ; and where the political reflections form fo distinguishing a part . BUT perhaps I may hear , from fome critic of the most faturnine complexion , that my vanity must have made a ...
Henry Fielding. in a work founded , like this , on truth ; and where the political reflections form fo distinguishing a part . BUT perhaps I may hear , from fome critic of the most faturnine complexion , that my vanity must have made a ...
Página 26
... truth is , the fees are fo very low , when any are due , and fo much is done for nothing , that if a fingle justice of peace had bufinefs enough to employ twenty clerks , neither he nor they would get much by their labour . The public ...
... truth is , the fees are fo very low , when any are due , and fo much is done for nothing , that if a fingle justice of peace had bufinefs enough to employ twenty clerks , neither he nor they would get much by their labour . The public ...
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