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... fame time , I pleased myself with the idea of attaining a more accurate knowledge of the topography of that dutchy ; as alfo of the customs and manners of the in- habitants , from my own obfervation and expe- rience , and of rectifying ...
... fame time , I pleased myself with the idea of attaining a more accurate knowledge of the topography of that dutchy ; as alfo of the customs and manners of the in- habitants , from my own obfervation and expe- rience , and of rectifying ...
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... fame day , and there waited till Saturday in the afternoon for the arrival of a Hamburg fhip , having agreed with the captain at London , for our paffage . Sunday in the afternoon we fell down the river , the weather exceeding fine ...
... fame day , and there waited till Saturday in the afternoon for the arrival of a Hamburg fhip , having agreed with the captain at London , for our paffage . Sunday in the afternoon we fell down the river , the weather exceeding fine ...
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... fame mutton , the failors hung it up in the fun , and wafhed it frequently with falt - water , which gave it a moft difagreeable tafte . We had two Ruffian paffengers on board , who did not feem to dif like this homely kind of fare ...
... fame mutton , the failors hung it up in the fun , and wafhed it frequently with falt - water , which gave it a moft difagreeable tafte . We had two Ruffian paffengers on board , who did not feem to dif like this homely kind of fare ...
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... fame . The up- per island is a clayey foil , from two and a half to four feet in depth . It is tolerably fruitful , producing barley and oats , though not a fuffi- cient quantity for the inhabitants . There are but very few trees in ...
... fame . The up- per island is a clayey foil , from two and a half to four feet in depth . It is tolerably fruitful , producing barley and oats , though not a fuffi- cient quantity for the inhabitants . There are but very few trees in ...
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... to the god- defs Fofta or Phofeta , the fame with the Vesta of the Romans : hence it was formerly known by the name of Terra Sancta , facra infula , and Phofs- Phofsland or Fofteland . But the behaviour of the inhabitants 14 I LETTER.
... to the god- defs Fofta or Phofeta , the fame with the Vesta of the Romans : hence it was formerly known by the name of Terra Sancta , facra infula , and Phofs- Phofsland or Fofteland . But the behaviour of the inhabitants 14 I LETTER.
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Page 143 - Then cheers his heart with what his fate affords, And chants his sonnet to deceive the time, Till the due season calls him to repose : Thus I...
Page 134 - Liberty, thou goddess heav'nly bright ! Profuse of bliss, and pregnant with delight ! Eternal pleasures in thy presence reign, And smiling Plenty leads thy wanton train ; Eas'd of her load Subjection grows more light, And Poverty looks cheerful in thy sight ; Thou mak'st the gloomy face of nature gay, Giv'st beauty to the sun, and pleasure to the day.
Page 171 - ... was behind, Megara before me ; Piraeus on the right, Corinth on the left ; all which towns, once famous and flourishing, now lie overturned, and buried in their ruins : upon this sight I could not but think presently within myself, alas ! how do we poor mortals fret and vex ourselves, if any of our friends happen to die, or to be killed, whose life is yet so short, when the carcasses of so many noble cities lie here exposed before me in one view...
Page 289 - Priapus, thy rewards : Sylvanus too his part deferves* Whofe care the fences guards. Sometimes beneath an ancient oak, Or on the matted grafs he lies ; No God of fleep he need invoke ; The ftream that o'er the pebbles flies With gentle (lumber crowns his eyes.
Page 342 - Ambition in idleness; meanness mixed with pride; a desire of riches without industry; aversion to truth; flattery, perfidy, violation of engagements, contempt of civil duties, fear of the prince's virtue, hope from his weakness, but, above all, a perpetual ridicule cast upon virtue, are, I think, the characteristics by which most courtiers in all ages and countries have been constantly distinguished.
Page 289 - HAPPY the man, whom bounteous gods allow With his own hands paternal grounds to plough ! Like the...
Page 170 - When th' humble roof Anchifes' fon explor'd Of good Evander, wealth-defpifing king, Amid the thickets : fo revolves the fcene ; So time ordains, who rolls the things of pride From duft again to duft. Behold that heap Of...
Page 289 - Despise a mean but safe retreat ; I'll ne'er contrive my own undoing, Nor stoop so low as to be great ' The faithless court, the pensive 'change, What solid pleasures can they give? Oh let me in the country range, 'Tis there we breathe, 'tis there we live. ' The beauteous scene of lofty mountains, Smiling valleys, murmuring fountains, Lambs in flowery pastures bleating, Ecclios our complaints repeating ; Birds in cheerful!
Page 158 - Tfris fixes the situation of the Varini and the Angli, the former inhabiting that part of the Duchy of Mecklenburg which extends along the banks of the Warnow ; and the latter the remaining part of the country as far as Lubeck. Such a display of erudition was at first productive of surprise, but afterwards created a good deal of merriment; the company wishing Dr. Nugent joy, that Dr. B. had proved the Mecklenburghers and the Knglish to be one and the same nation.
Page 143 - AS when a traveller, a long day paft In painful fearch of what he cannot find, At night's approach, content with the next cot, There ruminates...