 The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blessed with spontaneous fecundity; no perpetual gloom, or unceasing sunshine; nor are the nations here described either devoid of all sense of humanity, or consummate in all...  Boswell's Life of Johnson: Life (v.l, 1709-1765 - Stran 88avtor: James Boswell - 1887Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1909 - 658 strani
...Johnson commended Father Lobo's Voyage to Abyssinia because the eastern people described in it were not "either devoid of all sense of humanity, or consummate in all private and social virtues; here are no Hottentots without religion, polity, or articulate language; no Chinese... | |
 | George S. Jackson, Jacks - 1993 - 340 strani
...indeed to follow the course of the Portuguese traveller, who says in the Preface to his travels.* "' The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blest with spontaneous fecundity ; no perpetual gloom, or unceasing sunshine; nor are the nations here... | |
 | Charles Frankel - 1956 - 264 strani
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