 | James Boswell - 1907 - 634 páginas
...said, " A man who has m in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen wh expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great Empires of the the Assyrian, the Persian,... | |
 | John Bancroft Devins - 1910 - 268 páginas
...that the grand object of traveling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean, on which have rested the four great empires of the world : the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian and the Roman. He maintains that all of our religion, nearly all of our law, the majority of our arts, almost all... | |
 | Edward Salmon - 1914 - 302 páginas
...his preparations for the command of that sea " on whose shores," as Dr. Johnson said, had existed " the four great Empires of the world — the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman." The Mediterranean, the cradle and burial-place of Empires, was to contribute its full share to the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 páginas
...A journey to Italy was still in his thoughts. He said, "A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen...is expected a man should see. The grand object of traveling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great Empires of... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 páginas
...that he has good reasons for it." 34 He [Johnson] said, "A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen...is expected a man should see. The grand object of traveling. is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were the four great empires of... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 928 páginas
...that he has good reasons for it." 34 He [Johnson] said, "A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen...is expected a man should see. The grand object of traveling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were .the four great empires of... | |
 | Frederick Earle Emmons, Thomas Waterman Huntington - 1928 - 454 páginas
...ARTHUR SYMONS. ROME UNVISITED "A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority for his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. It ought to be the business of every man's, life to see Rome." — DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON. "Then from the... | |
 | Helen Bevington - 1983 - 232 páginas
...left home, I memorized Dr. Johnson's lapidary statement: "A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see." Dr. Johnson never got to Italy, but this is true if a man hasn't seen the Certosa of Pavia, what Stendhal... | |
 | Robert Eisner - 1991 - 340 páginas
..."Sir," Samuel Johnson intoned from his armchair, "a man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected...travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean." The schoolbooks may claim that the Middle East, specifically Mesopotamia, was the cradle of civilization,... | |
 | Gordon Charles Cook - 1995 - 224 páginas
...of education; in the elder, a part of experience. . .' Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) considered '. . . the grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean'. Many present day travellers set their sights considerably further away than that! Robert Louis Stevenson... | |
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A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. 
