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, Volume 1 |
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... human nature , must be of some use ; and I think we should do well to imitate them in our own metropolis : for- " how oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done ! " Thus far the police is good ; but for the prevention ...
... human nature , must be of some use ; and I think we should do well to imitate them in our own metropolis : for- " how oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done ! " Thus far the police is good ; but for the prevention ...
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... human institutions . Our Our qua- rantine has been manifestly a mere matter of form . Whenever there is any apprehension of infection , the suspected ship is obliged to remain in the open roads . But here we are with a multitude of ves ...
... human institutions . Our Our qua- rantine has been manifestly a mere matter of form . Whenever there is any apprehension of infection , the suspected ship is obliged to remain in the open roads . But here we are with a multitude of ves ...
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... human feelings and affections ; -for , though the form is female , the beauty is like the beauty of angels , who are ... humanity , of which there is none in the Venus : -in whose eye * there is no heaven , and in whose gesture there is ...
... human feelings and affections ; -for , though the form is female , the beauty is like the beauty of angels , who are ... humanity , of which there is none in the Venus : -in whose eye * there is no heaven , and in whose gesture there is ...
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... humanity in the Venus ; which escaped my notice in the first fervour of admira- tion . Her ears are bored for ear - rings , which probably once hung there ; and her arm bears the mark of having been compressed by a bracelet . This last ...
... humanity in the Venus ; which escaped my notice in the first fervour of admira- tion . Her ears are bored for ear - rings , which probably once hung there ; and her arm bears the mark of having been compressed by a bracelet . This last ...
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... human nature . His por- traits too are excellent , combining the force and the richness of the Flemish and Venetian schools , and are second only to the happiest efforts of Vandyke . - Vandyke must ever be the prince of portrait ...
... human nature . His por- traits too are excellent , combining the force and the richness of the Flemish and Venetian schools , and are second only to the happiest efforts of Vandyke . - Vandyke must ever be the prince of portrait ...
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Page 23 - How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done...
Page 102 - You should not have believed me. For virtue cannot so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 132 - Caron dimonio, con occhi di bragia, Loro accennando, tutte le raccoglie: Batte col remo qualunque s
Page 231 - ... ritu florent modo nata vigentque. debemur morti nos nostraque: sive receptus terra Neptunus classes Aquilonibus arcet, regis opus...
Page 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.