The Georgian Era: Voyagers and travellers. Philosophers and men of science. AuthorsVizetelly, Branston and Company, 1834 |
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... learning the man- ners and habits of the people , of whom , in her letters , she gives a very minute description , accompanied with obser- vations indicative of her wit and shrewdness , but with no very great On regard to modesty or ...
... learning the man- ners and habits of the people , of whom , in her letters , she gives a very minute description , accompanied with obser- vations indicative of her wit and shrewdness , but with no very great On regard to modesty or ...
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... learning and research . Sailing east- ward , he passed by Rhodes ; and after landing among the ruins of ancient Nisna , and visiting the sanctuary of Sidi Daoud , proceeded to Lowhaneah , for- merly Aquilana , where he inspected the ...
... learning and research . Sailing east- ward , he passed by Rhodes ; and after landing among the ruins of ancient Nisna , and visiting the sanctuary of Sidi Daoud , proceeded to Lowhaneah , for- merly Aquilana , where he inspected the ...
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... learning , and was even a clear , if not an elegant writer , as may be seen from his own account of his second voyage . He showed great perseverance in difficulty , and fortitude in danger ; and had such a reliance on his own judgment ...
... learning , and was even a clear , if not an elegant writer , as may be seen from his own account of his second voyage . He showed great perseverance in difficulty , and fortitude in danger ; and had such a reliance on his own judgment ...
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... learning , excepting that of self , however , with great assiduity to his self - selected studies , which oon- sisted of history , antiquity , and every variety of learning comprehended under the term of belles lettres . Natural his ...
... learning , excepting that of self , however , with great assiduity to his self - selected studies , which oon- sisted of history , antiquity , and every variety of learning comprehended under the term of belles lettres . Natural his ...
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... learning when he was unanimously elected to the chair . About the same time he received £ 1,000 from the curators of the Bodleian Library , Oxford , for the manuscripts he had collected during his travels , in- Icluding the famous one ...
... learning when he was unanimously elected to the chair . About the same time he received £ 1,000 from the curators of the Bodleian Library , Oxford , for the manuscripts he had collected during his travels , in- Icluding the famous one ...
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Página 370 - I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Página 312 - I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel ; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
Página 144 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father ; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Página 311 - Candide, written to refute the system of Optimism, which it has accomplished with brilliant success, is wonderfully similar in its plan and conduct to Johnson's Rasselas; insomuch, that I have heard Johnson say, that if they had not been published so closely one after the other that there was not time for imitation, it would have been in vain to deny that the scheme of that which came latest was taken from the other.
Página 368 - After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate; I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life.
Página 307 - Porter told me, that when he was first introduced to her mother, his appearance was very forbidding: he was then lean and lank, so that his immense structure of bones was hideously striking to the eye, and the scars of the scrofula were deeply visible.
Página 307 - I had looked into a great many books, which were not commonly known at the Universities, where they seldom read any books but what are put into their hands by their tutors; so that when I came to Oxford, Dr. Adams, now master of Pembroke College, told me, I was the best qualified for the University that he had ever known come there.
Página 420 - During the last year of my residence at Cambridge, I became acquainted with Mr. Wordsworth's first publication entitled "Descriptive Sketches"; and seldom, if ever, was the emergence of an original poetic genius above the literary horizon more evidently announced.
Página 385 - Thackeray, one of his masters, was wont to say of him, that he was a boy of so active a mind, that if he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury Plain, he would, nevertheless, find the road to fame and riches.
Página 314 - The doctor, having first asked him if he could bear the whole truth, which way soever it might lead, and being answered that he could, declared that, in his opinion, he could not recover without a miracle. " Then," said Johnson, " I will take no more physic, not even my opiates ; for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded."^) In this resolution he persevered, and, at the same time, used only the weakest kinds of sustenance.