A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, Volume 14R. Phillips & Company, 1809 |
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... passed through the country . The most obvious rea- son is certainly the great difference that there is in the humours and manners of the two nations , which always works more in the meaner sort , who are not able to vanquish the ...
... passed through the country . The most obvious rea- son is certainly the great difference that there is in the humours and manners of the two nations , which always works more in the meaner sort , who are not able to vanquish the ...
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... passed by it , that it brought into my mind Virgil's noble description of it . Adde lacus tantos , te Lari maxime , teque Fluctibus et fremitu assurgens , Benace , marino . Georg . ii . v . 159 . Here vex'd by winter storms Banacus ...
... passed by it , that it brought into my mind Virgil's noble description of it . Adde lacus tantos , te Lari maxime , teque Fluctibus et fremitu assurgens , Benace , marino . Georg . ii . v . 159 . Here vex'd by winter storms Banacus ...
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... passed through it , were extremely apprehen- sive of seeing Lombardy the seat of war , which must have made miserable havoc among their plantations ; for it is not here as in the corn - fields of Flanders , where the whole product of ...
... passed through it , were extremely apprehen- sive of seeing Lombardy the seat of war , which must have made miserable havoc among their plantations ; for it is not here as in the corn - fields of Flanders , where the whole product of ...
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... passed it , according to Lucan . Fonte cadit modico parvisque impellitur undis Puniceus Rubicon , cum fervida canduit æstas ; Perque imas serpit valles , et Gallica certus Limes af Auseniis disterminat arva colonis : Tunc vires præbebat ...
... passed it , according to Lucan . Fonte cadit modico parvisque impellitur undis Puniceus Rubicon , cum fervida canduit æstas ; Perque imas serpit valles , et Gallica certus Limes af Auseniis disterminat arva colonis : Tunc vires præbebat ...
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... passed the Rubicon . I must confess I can by no means look on this last as au- thentic : it is built of hewn stonc , like the pedestal of a pillar , but something higher than ordinary , and is but just broad enough for one man to stand ...
... passed the Rubicon . I must confess I can by no means look on this last as au- thentic : it is built of hewn stonc , like the pedestal of a pillar , but something higher than ordinary , and is but just broad enough for one man to stand ...
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Page 307 - The small-pox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless, by the invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated.
Page 314 - To confess the truth, my head is so full of my entertainment yesterday, that 'tis absolutely necessary for my own repose to give it some vent. Without farther preface, I will then begin my story. I was invited to dine with the Grand Vizier's lady; and it was with a great deal of pleasure I prepared myself for an entertainment which was never before given to any Christian. I thought I should very little satisfy her curiosity (which I did not doubt was a considerable motive to the invitation) by going...
Page 238 - ... make use of to fix their pails upon. This machine they cover with their own hair, which they mix with a great deal of false, it being a particular beauty to have their heads too large to go into a moderate tub. Their hair is prodigiously powdered, to conceal the mixture, and set out with three or four rows of bodkins (wonderfully large, that...
Page 308 - There is no example of any one that has died in it ; and you may believe I am well satisfied of the safety of this experiment, since I intend to try it on my dear little son.
Page 371 - Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground ; For here the Muse so oft her harp has strung, That not a mountain rears its head unsung, Renown'd in verse each shady thicket grows, And every stream in heavenly numbers flows.
Page 308 - England; and I should not fail to write to some of our doctors very particularly about it, if I knew any one of them that I thought had virtue enough to destroy such a considerable branch of their revenue for the good of mankind. But that distemper is too beneficial to them, not to expose to all their resentment the hardy wight that should undertake to put an end to it. Perhaps, if I live to return, I may, however, have courage to war with them.
Page 304 - I have taken abundance of pains to get these verses in a literal translation; and if you were acquainted with my interpreters, I might spare myself the trouble of assuring you, that they have received no poetical touches from their hands. In my opinion (allowing for the inevitable faults of a prose translation into a language so very different) there is a good deal of beauty in them. The epithet of stag-ey'd (though the sound is not very agreeable in English) pleases me extremely; and I think it...
Page 283 - Guido or Titian, — and most of their skins shiningly white, only adorned by their beautiful hair divided into many tresses, hanging on their shoulders, braided either with pearl or ribbon, perfectly representing the figures of the Graces.
Page 319 - Her fair maids were ranged below the sofa, to the number of twenty, and put me in mind of the pictures of the ancient nymphs. I did not think all nature could have furnished such a scene of beauty.
Page 315 - She guessed at my thoughts, and told me she was no longer of an age to spend either her time or money in superfluities ; that her whole expense was in charity, and her whole employment praying to God. There was no affectation in this speech ; both she and her husband are entirely given up to devotion.