A Journal of a Voyage to LisbonJ. Wenman, 1785 - 149 páginas |
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Página vii
... truth between d relator and hearer , as it is between author and " 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 ...
... truth between d relator and hearer , as it is between author and " 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 ...
Página xii
... truth than any other voyage extant ; my lord Anson's alone being , perhaps , excepted . Some few embellishments must be allowed to every historian : for we are not to conceive that the fpeeches in Livy , Salluft , or Thucydides , 3311 ...
... truth than any other voyage extant ; my lord Anson's alone being , perhaps , excepted . Some few embellishments must be allowed to every historian : for we are not to conceive that the fpeeches in Livy , Salluft , or Thucydides , 3311 ...
Página xiii
... truth , as I do feri- ously aver is the cafe in the enfuing pages ; and when it is fo , a good critic will be fo far from denying all kind of ornament of stile or diction , or even of circumftance to his author , that he would be rather ...
... truth , as I do feri- ously aver is the cafe in the enfuing pages ; and when it is fo , a good critic will be fo far from denying all kind of ornament of stile or diction , or even of circumftance to his author , that he would be rather ...
Página xiv
... truth ; and where the political reflections form fo diftinguishing a part . But perhaps I may hear , from fome critic of the most faturnine complexion , that my vanity must have made a horrid dupe of my judgment , if it hath flattered ...
... truth ; and where the political reflections form fo diftinguishing a part . But perhaps I may hear , from fome critic of the most faturnine complexion , that my vanity must have made a horrid dupe of my judgment , if it hath flattered ...
Página 19
... truth is , the fees are so very low , when any are due , and fo much is done for nothing , that if a fingle juf- tice 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 so very low , when any are due , and fo much is done for nothing , that if a fingle juf- tice 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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