The Retrospective Review, Tom 1John Russell Smith, 1853 |
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... travellers ' exaggerations , so the bishop had resolved to give doughty battle , in a true pilgrim's faith , to the dreams and phantasms of quacks and empirics ; but it does not appear that this is the case ; the learned writer is in ...
... travellers ' exaggerations , so the bishop had resolved to give doughty battle , in a true pilgrim's faith , to the dreams and phantasms of quacks and empirics ; but it does not appear that this is the case ; the learned writer is in ...
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... travellers whose purses and lives had been sacrificed to his gallantry ; and he exaggerated the greatness of these exploits , which had conducted him to this glorious end ; while another , less eloquent , accompanied his comrade with ...
... travellers whose purses and lives had been sacrificed to his gallantry ; and he exaggerated the greatness of these exploits , which had conducted him to this glorious end ; while another , less eloquent , accompanied his comrade with ...
Strona 78
... traveller , and he appears to have been a man of naturally liberal sentiments , whose prejudices , whatever they may have been at first , had been rubbed down in his intercourse with nations which differed from each other in manners and ...
... traveller , and he appears to have been a man of naturally liberal sentiments , whose prejudices , whatever they may have been at first , had been rubbed down in his intercourse with nations which differed from each other in manners and ...
Strona 79
... traveller went , by way of Sienna and Viterbo , to Rome , and in his route he made the acquaintance of a Roman nobleman , named Capponi , through whom he became subsequently acquainted with the Cardinal Capponi , to whom he dedicated ...
... traveller went , by way of Sienna and Viterbo , to Rome , and in his route he made the acquaintance of a Roman nobleman , named Capponi , through whom he became subsequently acquainted with the Cardinal Capponi , to whom he dedicated ...
Strona 80
... traveller was inclined to think that the danger consisted more in the natural difficulties of the mountain than in any other cause . The notion on this subject which was communicated to our traveller of the seventeenth century has ...
... traveller was inclined to think that the danger consisted more in the natural difficulties of the mountain than in any other cause . The notion on this subject which was communicated to our traveller of the seventeenth century has ...
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