| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 464 pages
...him who cannot contradict him. He appears, by his modeft and unaffected narration, to have defcribed things as he faw them, to have copied nature from...crocodiles devour their prey without tears ; and his * For an account of this book, fee the Life of Dr. Jt/hnftn t (('by the Editor. cataracts fall from... | |
| Jerónimo Lobo - 1789 - 520 pages
...him who cannot contradict him. HE appears, by his modeft and unaffected narration, to have defcribed things as he faw them ; to have copied nature from...prey without tears ; and his cataracts fall from the rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. THE reader will here find no regions curfed with... | |
| Jeronymo Lobo - 1789 - 518 pages
...him who cannot contradict him. HE appears, by his modeft and unaffected narration, to have defcribed things as he faw them ; to have copied nature from...prey without tears ; and his cataracts fall from the rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. THE reader will here find no regions curfed with... | |
| Jerónimo Lobo - Ethiopia - 1789 - 544 pages
...his modeft and unaffected narration, t~j have defcribed things as he faw them; to have copied rature from the life; and to have confulted his fenfes not...prey without tears; and his cataracts fall from the rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. THE reader will here find no regions curfed with... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 458 pages
...him who cannot contradict him. He appears, by his modeft and unaffected narration, to have defcribed things as he faw them, to have copied nature from...eyes; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears j and his * For an account of this book, fee the Life of Dr. JOHNSON, by the Editor. cataracts cataradbs... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 652 pages
...abfurdities, or incredible " fictions. He appears, by his modeft and " unaffected narration, to have defcribed things " as he faw them ; to have copied nature from...his fenfes, " not his imagination. He meets with no bafi" lifks, that deftroy with their eyes; his cro" codiles devour their prey, without tears ; and... | |
| 1792 - 574 pages
...incredible fiiftions. He appears, by his modeft and unaffefted narration, to have defcribed things ns he faw them ; to have copied nature from the life; and to have confulted his fcnfcs, not his imagination. He meets with no bafililks, that dcfiroy with their eyes; his crocodiles... | |
| Richard Hole - Arabian nights - 1797 - 276 pages
...following account of the author: *' He appears by his modeft and. unaffected narration to have defcribed things as he faw them, to have copied nature from...to have confulted his fenfes, not his imagination." Ferdinand Mendez Pinto informs us, (I quote from the tranflation in 1653,) that, on the banks of a... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey...inhabitants. " The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blessed with spontaneous fecundity ; no perpetual gloom, or... | |
| James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...The rest of the work he describes as an epitome. 1 In the original, Segued. ' In the original, Zeila. devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts...inhabitants'. ' The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blessed with spontaneous fecundity ; no perpetual gloom, or... | |
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