Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries,: From the Time of Columbus to the Present Period, Volume 19E. Newbery, 1797 |
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Pagina 174 - luxury difplays its follies, it is New York. You will find here the Englifh fafhions. In the drefs of the women, you will fee the moft brilliant filks, gauzes, hats, and borrowed hair. Equipages are rare, but they are elegant. The men have more Simplicity in their
Pagina 130 - face with fmiles, and makes him behold his increafing family with delight and exultation :—Freedom has abandoned the fertile fields of Lombardy, and dwells among the mountains of Switzerland." They left Milan at midnight, and arrived at Turin next evening. All the approaches to that city are magnificent. It is
Pagina 149 - darknefs. Befides the focieties for the encouragement of agriculture and manufactures, they have another, known by the name of the Humane Society. Their object is to recover drowned perfons. It is formed after the model of the one at London, as that is copied from the one at Paris. They follow the fame methods as in Europe,
Pagina 147 - to commerce, the fciences are not carried to any high degree. This remark applies to Bofton. The univerfity certainly contains men of worth and learning; but fcience is not diffufed among the inhabitants of the town. Commerce occupies all their ideas, turns all their heads, and abforbs
Pagina 139 - Infancy, enjoys a great profperity. I thought myfelf in that Salentum, of which the lively pencil of Fenelon has left us fo charming an image. But the profperity of this new Salentum was not the work of one man, of a
Pagina 149 - Let us not blame the Boftonians; they think of the ufeful, before procuring to themfelves the agreeable. They have no brilliant monuments ; but they have neat and commodious churches, but they have good houfes, but they have fuperb bridges, and excellent
Pagina 327 - The weftern inhabitants are convinced that this navigation cannot remain a long time clofed. They are determined to open it by good will, or by force; and it would not be in the power of congrefs to moderate their ardour. Men, who
Pagina 252 - country; they are a kind of long carriage, light and open, and may contain twelve perfons. They have many chairs and fulkeys, open on all fides; the former may carry two perfons, the latter only one. The horfes ufed in thefe carriages are neither handfome nor ftrong; but they travel very well.
Pagina 142 - fortunes in it. There are many clubs at Bofton. M. Chaftellux fpeaks of a particular club held once a week. I was at it feveral times, and was much pleafed with their politenefs to ftrangers, and the knowledge difplayed in their converfation. There is no coffee-houfe at Bofton,
Pagina 143 - the country, among families and friends. The principal expence of the parties, efpecially after dinner, is tea. In this, as in their whole manner of living, the Americans in general refemble the Englifh. Punch, warm and cold, before dinner; excellent beef, and