Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons: Chiefly of the Present and Two Preceding Centuries ...

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T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, 1798
 

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الصفحة 284 - II. difperfed, the fun fhone bright, we breathed a purer air, and the clear light, which difplayed the city and territory of St. Marino was heightened by contraft with the thick gloom which involved the circumjacent plains. Tranfported with the contemplation of a landfcape which feemed fo admirably to accord with the political ftate of the mountain, a bright gem of liberty...
الصفحة 74 - The bargain was ftruck, the money paid, and the • abfolution delivered in due form. Soon after this, the gentleman, knowing that Tetzel was going from Leipfic well loaded with...
الصفحة 280 - Britim dominions alone, by their native ftrength and the ex-cellence of their government, being happily exempted from the terror of banditti in time of peace, and marauders in time of war. We difcovered the inn at St. Marino, as is ufual in Italy, by the crowd before the door.
الصفحة 283 - About two o'clock in the afternoon, we left the Borgo to climb up to the Citta, carrying our fwords in our right hands ; a precaution which the company we had juft left warranted in this modern republic, but which, as...
الصفحة 289 - ... every entertainment in Italy, whether gay or ferious, is always feafoned with mufic ; but chiefly that foft voluptuous mufic which was banifhed by Lycurgus, profcribed by Plato, and prohibited by other legiflators/ under fevere penalties, as unfriendly to virtue and deftrudive of manhood.
الصفحة 282 - II the revenues of their country, naturally degenerate into daring and diforderly ruffians, the terror of peaceful men, and both the difgrace and the bane of civilized fociety. From the company of...
الصفحة 15 - The first thing that I would therefore suggest to you is, that you ought to be grateful to God, and continually to recollect that it is not through your merits, your prudence, or your solicitude, that this event has taken place, but through his favour...
الصفحة 425 - LEONARDO DA VINCI. Leonardo da Vinci, made up of all the elements, without the preponderance of any one, gave univerfal hints, and wafted life infaliate in experiment; now on the wing after beauty, then grovelling...
الصفحة 325 - In that cloifter ** are often tombs ; and fhe may well be fuppofed " to have quitted her cell (more efpecially in that " warm part of France) for air, change of place,
الصفحة 384 - ... to commence hostilities arbitrarily and feignedly, with a design only to raise money. Money, I am sensible, is necessary at all times to secure the frontiers, in times of peace as well as war, that they may not be surprised ; but all should be done with moderation, and depends much upon the wisdom of the prince; for if he be a good man he knows what God is, what the world is, what he ought to do, and what he ought to avoid.

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