Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries: From the Time of Columbus to the Present Period ...E. Newbery, 1797 |
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... hiftory . Being at Naples * , in May 1770 , our author , in company with Meffrs . Fullerton and Glover , formed the plan of vifiting Sicily , a country little known to fcientic travellers , and therefore prefenting a wide field for ...
... hiftory . Being at Naples * , in May 1770 , our author , in company with Meffrs . Fullerton and Glover , formed the plan of vifiting Sicily , a country little known to fcientic travellers , and therefore prefenting a wide field for ...
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... hiftory tells us contained one of the most famous pictures of an- tiquity , from the pencil of Zeuxis , who , deter- mined to produce a model of human perfection , affembled all the finest women of Agrigentum , who were even ambitious ...
... hiftory tells us contained one of the most famous pictures of an- tiquity , from the pencil of Zeuxis , who , deter- mined to produce a model of human perfection , affembled all the finest women of Agrigentum , who were even ambitious ...
Side 90
... hiftory , and politics ; but particularly poetry . At fome period of his life , almoft every perfon is fure to be infpired by the god of verfe ; and a lo- ver is never believed as long as he can speak of his paffion in profe . The beft ...
... hiftory , and politics ; but particularly poetry . At fome period of his life , almoft every perfon is fure to be infpired by the god of verfe ; and a lo- ver is never believed as long as he can speak of his paffion in profe . The beft ...
Side 91
... hiftory of this island , would open a vaft field , which the prefent work forbids to traverse . Some general remarks muft therefore fuffice . Mineral waters are most abun- dant ; many boiling hot ; and there are others , though colder ...
... hiftory of this island , would open a vaft field , which the prefent work forbids to traverse . Some general remarks muft therefore fuffice . Mineral waters are most abun- dant ; many boiling hot ; and there are others , though colder ...
Side 136
... even in its brumal robes , be- yond expreffion . Grenada is a place of great antiquity , and has been much celebrated in hiftory , both European and and oriental . It was the beautiful and favoured metropolis 136 SWINBURNE'S TRAVELS .
... even in its brumal robes , be- yond expreffion . Grenada is a place of great antiquity , and has been much celebrated in hiftory , both European and and oriental . It was the beautiful and favoured metropolis 136 SWINBURNE'S TRAVELS .
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