Instructions for Forreine Travell: 1642Bloomsbury, 1869 - 88 sider |
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Instructions for Forreine Travell. 1642: Collated with the Second Edition of ... James Howell Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1869 |
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Side 3 - ... odd fellow to deal withal, I mean myself, for I have the humours within me that belong to all three ; therefore...
Side 64 - Charenton-Bridge-Echo, which doubles the sound nine times. Such a traveller was he that reported the Indian fly to be as big as a fox ; China birds to be as big as some horses, and their mice to be as big as monkeys ; but they have the wit to fetch this far enough off, because the hearer may rather believe it than make a voyage so far to disprove it.
Side 3 - He may be called the Prodigie of his Age. for the variety of his Volumes, for from his Parly of Trees to his Parly of Beasts . . there hath pass'd to the Press above forty of his Works on various subjects.
Side 27 - Colledge-like, where for 150 piftols a yeare, which come to about no 1. fterling per annum, of our money, one may be very well accommodated, with lodging and diet for himfelfe and a man, and be taught to Ride, to Fence, to manage Armes,. to Dance, Vault, and ply the Mathematiques.
Side 3 - He teacheth a new way of epistplizing; and that Familiar Letters may not onely consist of words, and a bombast of complements, but that they are capable of The highest speculations and solidst kind of knowledge. " He chalks out a topical and exact way for Foreign Travel, not roving in general precepts onely.
Side 31 - ... will retire solemnly to a room, and if a fly chance to hum about him, it will discompose his thoughts, and puzzle him. It is a kind of sickness for a Frenchman to keep a secret long, and all the drugs of Egypt cannot get it out of a Spaniard.
Side 79 - Iudicature, by which Knowledge, he may learne how to preferve his own, for, for want of fome experience herein, many have mightily fuffered in their eftates, and made themfelves a prey to their follicitors and Agents : Nor indeed is he capable to beare any Rule or Office in Town or Countrey, who is utterly unacquainted with John an Okes, and John a Stiles, and with their Tcrmes.
Side 4 - Afterwards going through several beneficial employments, particularly the assisting the clerks of the council,' he 'was at length, in the beginning of the civil war, made one of those clerks.
Side 33 - He thus amusingly speaks of the follies of travellers, on their return home : — " He must abhor all affectations, all forced postures and compliments ; for foreign travel oftentimes makes many to wander from themselves, as well as from their country, and to come back mere mimicks ; and so, in going...
Side 4 - HE had a singular command of his pen whether in verse or in prose, and was well read in modern Histories, especially in those of the Countries wherein he had travelled, had a parabolical and allusive fancy, according to his motto Senesco non segnesco. But the Reader is to know that his writings, having been only to gain a livelihood, and by their dedications to flatter great and noble persons, are very trite and empty, stolen from other authors without acknowledgment, and fitted only to please the...