The Diary of an Invalid: Being the Journal of a Tour in Pursuit of Health, in Portugal, Italy, Switzerland, and France, in the Years 1817, 1818, and 1819Baudry's European Library, 1836 - 362 pagine |
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Brani popolari
Pagina 1 - How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done...
Pagina iv - It is a strange thing that in sea voyages, where there is nothing to be seen but sky and sea, men should make diaries ; but in land travel, wherein so much is to be observed, for the most part they omit it, as if chance were fitter to be registered than observation.
Pagina 134 - Not where he eats, but where he is eaten : a certain convocation of politic worms are e'en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet : we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots...
Pagina 312 - There are few Englishmen who would not think their country absolutely ruined, were French wines sold in England so cheap and in such abundance as to supplant, in some measure, all ale and home-brewed liquors : But would we lay aside prejudice, it would not be difficult to prove, that nothing could be more innocent, perhaps advantageous.
Pagina 134 - As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
Pagina 11 - For it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours...
Pagina 52 - Let him study the Holy Scriptures, especially the New Testament. Therein are contained the words of eternal life. It has God for its Author ; salvation for its end ; and truth, without any mixture of error, for its matter.
Pagina 125 - ... ritu florent modo nata vigentque. debemur morti nos nostraque: sive receptus terra Neptunus classes Aquilonibus arcet, regis opus, sterilisve diu palus aptaque remis...
Pagina 101 - Those are the wisest and the happiest who can pass through life as a play ; who, without making a farce of it, and turning every thing into ridicule, or running into the opposite extreme of tragedy, consider the whole period, from the cradle to the coffin, as a well-bred comedy ; and maintain a cheerful smile to the very last scene. For what is happiness but a Will-o'-the-wisp, a delusion; a terra incognita, in...