The Diary of an Invalid: Being the Journal of a Tour in Pursuit of Health, in Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, and France, in the Years 1817, 1818, and 1819, Svazek 1J. Murray, 1824 - Počet stran: 307 |
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... BELIEVE it is Horace Walpole who says - quoting a remark of Gray- that if any man would keep a faithful account of what he had seen and heard himself , it must , in whatever hands , prove an interesting one . The observation would ...
... BELIEVE it is Horace Walpole who says - quoting a remark of Gray- that if any man would keep a faithful account of what he had seen and heard himself , it must , in whatever hands , prove an interesting one . The observation would ...
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... believe we must agree that old Cato's repentance was well founded . -- Sunday , 21st . To - day we have again a breeze in our favour . All the crew are busily employed . This demand for hands prevents the celebration of Church Service ...
... believe we must agree that old Cato's repentance was well founded . -- Sunday , 21st . To - day we have again a breeze in our favour . All the crew are busily employed . This demand for hands prevents the celebration of Church Service ...
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... believe , we did catch a glimpse of Cape Finisterre in our passage , but it might have been a " camel " or a " whale ; " - this morning , how- ever , the rock of Lisbon rose with clouded majesty within a few miles of us . At eleven o ...
... believe , we did catch a glimpse of Cape Finisterre in our passage , but it might have been a " camel " or a " whale ; " - this morning , how- ever , the rock of Lisbon rose with clouded majesty within a few miles of us . At eleven o ...
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... believe the true epi- thet would have been imposing ; for it is mere deceit and delusion : the prestige vanishes at once on landing ; and the gay and glittering city proves to be a painted sepulchre . Filth and beastliness assault you ...
... believe the true epi- thet would have been imposing ; for it is mere deceit and delusion : the prestige vanishes at once on landing ; and the gay and glittering city proves to be a painted sepulchre . Filth and beastliness assault you ...
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... believe that they were- -as the ancients also are supposed to have been - ignorant of the first principles of hydraulics , which have every where else superseded the necessity of such stu- pendous structures . Still , in point of ...
... believe that they were- -as the ancients also are supposed to have been - ignorant of the first principles of hydraulics , which have every where else superseded the necessity of such stu- pendous structures . Still , in point of ...
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Strana 23 - How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done...
Strana 102 - You should not have believed me. For virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it.
Strana 209 - My father's spirit in arms ! all is not well; I doubt some foul play: 'would, the night were come! Till then sit still, my soul: Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.
Strana 39 - For it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours...
Strana 9 - It is a strange thing that in sea voyages, where there is nothing to be seen but sky and sea, men should make diaries ; but in land travel, wherein so much is to be observed, for the most part they omit it, as if chance were fitter to be registered than observation.
Strana 106 - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Strana 82 - Winter season does of our own. The only advantage of Italy then is, that your penance is shorter than it would be in England ; for I repeat, that during the time it lasts, Winter is more severely felt here, than at Sidmouth, where I would even recommend an Italian invalid to repair, from November till February ; — if he could possess himself of Fortunatus's cap, to remove the difficulties of the journey.
Strana 132 - Caron dimonio, con occhi di bragia, Loro accennando, tutte le raccoglie: Batte col remo qualunque s
Strana 231 - ... ritu florent modo nata vigentque. debemur morti nos nostraque: sive receptus terra Neptunus classes Aquilonibus arcet, regis opus...
Strana 245 - As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.