A Tour in Switzerland, Or, A View of the Present State of the Governments and Manners of Those Cantons: With Comparative Sketches of the Present State of Paris, المجلد 1G.G. and J. Robinson, 1798 |
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... all ranks , and all nations , being , at that period when general hoftility had barred the paffes from one country to another , al- VOL . I. B moft moft the only spot left open for the tranf- actions STATE OF SWITZERLAND . 3.
... all ranks , and all nations , being , at that period when general hoftility had barred the paffes from one country to another , al- VOL . I. B moft moft the only spot left open for the tranf- actions STATE OF SWITZERLAND . 3.
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With Comparative Sketches of the Present State of Paris Helen Maria Williams. moft the only spot left open for the tranf- actions of commerce , the afylum of the fugitives , and the dawning negociations of peace . 66 The first view of ...
With Comparative Sketches of the Present State of Paris Helen Maria Williams. moft the only spot left open for the tranf- actions of commerce , the afylum of the fugitives , and the dawning negociations of peace . 66 The first view of ...
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... moft furiously . Each club is compofed of nearly the fame age , a custom to which the love of equality perhaps gave rife , but which is obferved to be extremely prejudicial to the manners of the young men of Bafil , by excluding all ...
... moft furiously . Each club is compofed of nearly the fame age , a custom to which the love of equality perhaps gave rife , but which is obferved to be extremely prejudicial to the manners of the young men of Bafil , by excluding all ...
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... the perspective of a folid fupper ; the Swifs in general being poffeffed of a moft powerful appetite , per- haps arifing from the keenness of their mountain mountain air . A dull game of commerce drags on STATE OF SWITZERLAND . 13.
... the perspective of a folid fupper ; the Swifs in general being poffeffed of a moft powerful appetite , per- haps arifing from the keenness of their mountain mountain air . A dull game of commerce drags on STATE OF SWITZERLAND . 13.
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... moft trifling purchase or transaction , at that period , had fomthing in it of found- ing greatnefs ; a pair of fhoes coft a thou- fand livres , an ell of ribband five hundred ; and as the women in France have even more active spirits ...
... moft trifling purchase or transaction , at that period , had fomthing in it of found- ing greatnefs ; a pair of fhoes coft a thou- fand livres , an ell of ribband five hundred ; and as the women in France have even more active spirits ...
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الصفحة 269 - But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live or bear no life, The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up ; to be discarded thence...
الصفحة 269 - I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience : but, alas, to make me A fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at...
الصفحة 33 - No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene ; Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
الصفحة 24 - ... in a flat purfe of morocco leather, only large enough to contain a few louis, at the fide of her neck, and giving her fnuff-box and her pocket-handkerchief to the care of the gentleman who attends her, and to whom fhe applies for them whenever fhe has occafion.
الصفحة 71 - O lay me, ye that see the light, near some rock of my hills! let the thick hazels be around, let the rustling oak be near. Green be the place of my rest; let the sound of the distant torrent be heard.
الصفحة 24 - The fair Grecians being determined not , to injure the contour of fine forms by fuperfluous incumbrances, no fafhionable lady at Paris wears any pockets, and the inconvenience of being without is obviated by...
الصفحة 1 - Bafil is a town of clubbifts, containing no lefs than twelve fmoking focieties, each compofed of about fixty members, who meet every afternoon at an early hour, drink tea amidft the exhilarating fumes of tobacco, difcufs the political fituation,. but far more indefatigably the commercial affairs of the town, calculate the gains and...
الصفحة 274 - The fpirit-ftirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality* Pride, pomp, and circumftance of glorious war ! And, oh, you mortal engines, whole rude throats Th* immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewel ! * Othello's occupation's gone ! lagt.
الصفحة 48 - ... very wife men, who admit of no fcope to that faculty of the mind called imagination, and are for ever bringing every theory to the fquare and the...
الصفحة 95 - Cox, that he found mopkeepers in this city reading Virgil, Horace, and Plutarch ; from which he was, no doubt, well authorized to draw his conclufion, that there is no country in the world where the people are fo happy. • But whatever were the Halcyon days of tafte and learning at the period of Mr. Cox's vifit, it is a melancholy fact, that this literary fpirit has entirely evaporated fince his departure. Thefe lettered triumphs, the