A Journal of a Voyage to LisbonJ. Wenman, 1785 - 149 páginas |
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Página vii
... thefe talents must concur in the relator , they are certainly in a more eminent de- gree neceffary to the writer : for here the nar- ration admits of higher ornaments of ftile , and every fact and fentiment offers itself to the fulleft ...
... thefe talents must concur in the relator , they are certainly in a more eminent de- gree neceffary to the writer : for here the nar- ration admits of higher ornaments of ftile , and every fact and fentiment offers itself to the fulleft ...
Página viii
... thefe I thall willingly admit Burnet and Addifon ; if the former was not perhaps to be confidered as a political effayift , and the latter as a commentator on the claffics , rather than as a writer of travels ; which laft title perhaps ...
... thefe I thall willingly admit Burnet and Addifon ; if the former was not perhaps to be confidered as a political effayift , and the latter as a commentator on the claffics , rather than as a writer of travels ; which laft title perhaps ...
Página ix
... thefe with more ad- miration and astonishment , I ftill read Herodotus , Thucydides and Xenophon , with more amuse- ment and more fatisfaction . The original poets were not , however , with out excufe . They found the limits of nature ...
... thefe with more ad- miration and astonishment , I ftill read Herodotus , Thucydides and Xenophon , with more amuse- ment and more fatisfaction . The original poets were not , however , with out excufe . They found the limits of nature ...
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... thefe villains ; in examining whom , and in taking the depofitions against them , I have often spent whole days , nay fome- times whole nights , efpecially when there was any difficulty in procuring fufficient evidence to convict them ...
... thefe villains ; in examining whom , and in taking the depofitions against them , I have often spent whole days , nay fome- times whole nights , efpecially when there was any difficulty in procuring fufficient evidence to convict them ...
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... thefe rewards , had been fometimes drawn into guilt ; and fometimes , which cannot be thought on without the higheft horror , had de- ftroyed them without it . Thirdly , That my plan had not put the government to more than 300l ...
... thefe rewards , had been fometimes drawn into guilt ; and fometimes , which cannot be thought on without the higheft horror , had de- ftroyed them without it . Thirdly , That my plan had not put the government to more than 300l ...
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