A Journal of a Voyage to LisbonJ. Wenman, 1785 - 149 páginas |
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Página v
... things ; both . which are best known by comparifon . If the customs and manners of men were every where the fame , there would be no office fo dull as that of a traveller ; for the difference of hills , valleys , rivers ; in hort , the ...
... things ; both . which are best known by comparifon . If the customs and manners of men were every where the fame , there would be no office fo dull as that of a traveller ; for the difference of hills , valleys , rivers ; in hort , the ...
Página vi
... things which a traveller is to record , there are fewer on which he is to of- fer his obfervations : this is the office of the reader , and it is fo pleafant a one , that he fel- dom chufes to have it taken from him , under the pretence ...
... things which a traveller is to record , there are fewer on which he is to of- fer his obfervations : this is the office of the reader , and it is fo pleafant a one , that he fel- dom chufes to have it taken from him , under the pretence ...
Página ix
... thing they touch feems to exist in the very manner they reprefent it : their portraits are fo juft , and their landfcapes fo beautiful , that we acknowledge the ftrokes of nature in both , without enquiring whether nature herfelf ...
... thing they touch feems to exist in the very manner they reprefent it : their portraits are fo juft , and their landfcapes fo beautiful , that we acknowledge the ftrokes of nature in both , without enquiring whether nature herfelf ...
Página xi
... things . and facts of fo common a kind , that they chal- lenge no other right of being remembered , than as they had ... thing in the detail of his journal . That the fact is true , is fufficient to give it a place there , with- out any ...
... things . and facts of fo common a kind , that they chal- lenge no other right of being remembered , than as they had ... thing in the detail of his journal . That the fact is true , is fufficient to give it a place there , with- out any ...
Página xiii
... things : but the task is fo very pleasant that I fhall leave it wholly to the reader ; and it is all the task I impofe on him . A moderation for which he may think himfelf obliged to me , when he compares it with The PREFACE . xiii.
... things : but the task is fo very pleasant that I fhall leave it wholly to the reader ; and it is all the task I impofe on him . A moderation for which he may think himfelf obliged to me , when he compares it with The PREFACE . xiii.
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