Instructions for Forreine Travell. 1642: Collated with the Second Edition of 1650 ...A. Murray, 1869 - 88 sider |
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Side 3 - He teacheth a new way of Epistolizing ; 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.
Side 3 - Not to know the Author of these Poems, were an Ignorance beyond Barbarism, as 'twas said of a famous person in France : yet I held it superfluous to prefix his name in the...
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...
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 42 - Italians are for the moft part of a fpeculative complexion (as I have difcovered more amply in another Difcours) and he is accounted little...
Side 27 - ... and a man, and be taught to Ride, to Fence, to manage Armes, to Dance, Vault, and ply the Mathematiques.
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 4 - Four years after he went secretary to Robert earl of Leicester, ambassador extraordinary from our king to the king of Denmark : before whom and his children he shew'd himself a quaint orator by divers Latin speeches spoken before them, shewing the occasion of their ambassy, to condole of i death of Sophia, queen dowager of Denmark, grandmother to Charles I. king of England.
Side 31 - Sun fhould dart down his rayes like lances upon him, yet he could not bee brought to open one button of his...
Side 3 - Beasts [1660] (not inferior to the other), there hath pass'd the Press above forty of his Works on various subjects ; useful not only to the present times, but to all posterity. And 'tis observed that in all his Writings there is something still New, either in the Matter, Method or Fancy, and in an untrodden Tract.