A Journal of a Voyage to LisbonJ. Wenman, 1785 - 149 páginas |
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Página v
... fuch as have had good fenfe enough to apply their peregrinations to a pro- per ufe , fo as to acquire from them a real and valuable knowledge of men and things ; both . which are best known by comparifon . If the customs and manners of ...
... fuch as have had good fenfe enough to apply their peregrinations to a pro- per ufe , fo as to acquire from them a real and valuable knowledge of men and things ; both . which are best known by comparifon . If the customs and manners of ...
Página vii
... higher ornaments of ftile , and every fact and fentiment offers itself to the fulleft and moft deliberate examination . It would appear therefore , I think , " fomewhat A frange , if fuch writers as thefe fhould be found The PREFACE .佳.
... higher ornaments of ftile , and every fact and fentiment offers itself to the fulleft and moft deliberate examination . It would appear therefore , I think , " fomewhat A frange , if fuch writers as thefe fhould be found The PREFACE .佳.
Página viii
... fuch a heap of dulnefs behind , that the appellation of voyage - writer would not appear very defirable . I am not here unapprized that old Homer him- felf is by fome confidered as a voyage - writer ; and indeed the beginning of his ...
... fuch a heap of dulnefs behind , that the appellation of voyage - writer would not appear very defirable . I am not here unapprized that old Homer him- felf is by fome confidered as a voyage - writer ; and indeed the beginning of his ...
Página x
... fuch pretenfions to indulgence : they lye for lying fake , or in order infolently to impofe the molt monftrous improbabilities and abfurdities upon their readers on their own au- thority ; treating them as fome fathers treat children ...
... fuch pretenfions to indulgence : they lye for lying fake , or in order infolently to impofe the molt monftrous improbabilities and abfurdities upon their readers on their own au- thority ; treating them as fome fathers treat children ...
Página xiii
... fuch inftruction or information with an air of joke and laughter , none but the dulleft of fellows will , I believe , cenfure it ; but if they should , I have the authority of more than one paffage in Horace to alledge in my defence ...
... fuch inftruction or information with an air of joke and laughter , none but the dulleft of fellows will , I believe , cenfure it ; but if they should , I have the authority of more than one paffage in Horace to alledge in my defence ...
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