A Journal of a Voyage to LisbonJ. Wenman, 1785 - 149 páginas |
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Página vi
... reader , and it is fo pleafant a one , that he fel- dom chufes to have it taken from him , under the pretence of lending him affiftance . Some occa- fions , indeed , there are , when proper obferva- tions are pertinent , and others when ...
... reader , and it is fo pleafant a one , that he fel- dom chufes to have it taken from him , under the pretence of lending him affiftance . Some occa- fions , indeed , there are , when proper obferva- tions are pertinent , and others when ...
Página vii
... reader ; this is , that the latter never forgive any obfervation or the former which doth not con- vey fome knowledge that they are fenfible they could not poffibly have attained to themselves . But all his pains in collecting knowledge ...
... reader ; this is , that the latter never forgive any obfervation or the former which doth not con- vey fome knowledge that they are fenfible they could not poffibly have attained to themselves . But all his pains in collecting knowledge ...
Página x
... readers on their own au- thority ; treating them as fome fathers treat children , and as other fathers do lay - men , ex- acting their belief of whatever they relate , on no other foundation than their own authority , without ever ...
... readers on their own au- thority ; treating them as fome fathers treat children , and as other fathers do lay - men , ex- acting their belief of whatever they relate , on no other foundation than their own authority , without ever ...
Página xi
... confideration whether it is capable of pleafing or furprising , of diverting or informing the reader . I have feen a play ( if I mistake not it is one of Mrs. Behn's , or of Mrs. Cenlivre's ) where A 6 The PREFACE . xi ir ...
... confideration whether it is capable of pleafing or furprising , of diverting or informing the reader . I have feen a play ( if I mistake not it is one of Mrs. Behn's , or of Mrs. Cenlivre's ) where A 6 The PREFACE . xi ir ...
Página xiii
... reader will eafily perceive it is not introduced for its own fake , but for fome obfervations and reflections naturally refulting from it ; and which , if but little to his amusement , tend directly to the in- ftruction of the reader ...
... reader will eafily perceive it is not introduced for its own fake , but for fome obfervations and reflections naturally refulting from it ; and which , if but little to his amusement , tend directly to the in- ftruction of the reader ...
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