A Journey Round the Library of a Bibliomaniac: Or, Cento of Notes and Reminiscences Concerning Rare, Curious, and Valuable Books |
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... Europe on foot , and distinguished himself by walking nine hundred miles with one pair of shoes , which , as he informs us , he got mended at Zurich . He afterwards travelled into the Eastern Countries ; and seems to have been at least ...
... Europe on foot , and distinguished himself by walking nine hundred miles with one pair of shoes , which , as he informs us , he got mended at Zurich . He afterwards travelled into the Eastern Countries ; and seems to have been at least ...
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... Europe , 1625. Vol . 4. Voyages America , 1625. Pilgrimage , ( makes a fifth volume , ) con- taining Relations of the World ; theological and geological History of Asia , Africa , and America ; fourth edition , enlarged with three whole ...
... Europe , 1625. Vol . 4. Voyages America , 1625. Pilgrimage , ( makes a fifth volume , ) con- taining Relations of the World ; theological and geological History of Asia , Africa , and America ; fourth edition , enlarged with three whole ...
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... Europe many other works , published either wholly or in part at their expence , ten other volumes are usually added to complete the Series . A complete list and description of the titles of the different volumes , as well as minute ...
... Europe many other works , published either wholly or in part at their expence , ten other volumes are usually added to complete the Series . A complete list and description of the titles of the different volumes , as well as minute ...
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... Europe . 8vo . Londres , 1770 . De Lolme's Essay on the English Constitution , was first written in French , and published in Holland , according to the author's own advertisement , prefixed to the first English Translation , 8vo . 1775 ...
... Europe . 8vo . Londres , 1770 . De Lolme's Essay on the English Constitution , was first written in French , and published in Holland , according to the author's own advertisement , prefixed to the first English Translation , 8vo . 1775 ...
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... done , the plates were sent to China , and very few impressions remained in Europe . At M. Paris's Sale in 1791 , a copy sold for 54l . 12s . Explication des Principaux Noms laissés en blanc dans la Seconde 94 JOURNEY ROUND A.
... done , the plates were sent to China , and very few impressions remained in Europe . At M. Paris's Sale in 1791 , a copy sold for 54l . 12s . Explication des Principaux Noms laissés en blanc dans la Seconde 94 JOURNEY ROUND A.
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Page 82 - Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee; All that summer hours produce, Fertile made with early juice. Man for thee does sow and plough; Farmer he, and landlord thou!
Page 92 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.
Page 65 - I FIRST adventure, with fool-hardy might, To tread the steps of perilous despite. I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satirist.
Page 33 - Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven, or have thy sins and go to hell...
Page 29 - WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
Page 71 - The Man in the Moon, or a Discourse of a Voyage thither, by Domingo Gonsales, l638,"Svo.
Page 70 - They are full of spirit and poetry; as much of the first as Dr. Donne, and far more of the latter: they were written at the university when he was about twenty-three years old, and in queen Elizabeth's time.