Burnet's Travels: Or, a Collection of Letters to the Hon. Robert Boyle ... Containing, an Account of what Seem'd Most Remarkable in Travelling Through Switzerland, Italy, Some Parts of Germany, &c. in the Years 1685, and 1686. To which is Added, an Appendix, Containing Some Remarks on Switzerland and Italy. Communicated to the Author by a Person of Quality |
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Page 235 - there is a picture one would think invented to ridicule transubstantiation. There is a windmill, and the Virgin Mary throws Christ into the hopper, and he comes out at the eye of the mill all in wafers, which a priest takes up to give to the people.
Page 83 - Islands, that are certainly the loveliest spots of ground in the World, there is nothing in all Italy that can be compared to them, they have the full view of the Lake, and the ground rises so sweetly in them that nothing can be imagined like the Terraces here, they belong to two Counts of the Borromean family.
Page 95 - But that which is moft of all, is, fhe writes legibly. In order to her learning to write, her Father, who is a worthy Man, and hath fuch Tendernefs for her, that he furnifheth her with...
Page 165 - ... places, and not little and narrow as the catacombs at Rome, which are only three or four foot broad, and five or six foot high. I was made believe that these catacombs of Naples went into the rock nine mile long : but for that I have it only by report : yet if that be true, they may perhaps run towards Puzzolo, and so they may have been the burial-places of the towns on that bay : but of this I have no certainty. I walked indeed a great way, and found galleries going off in all hands without...
Page 162 - God, and then to sink into a silence and cessation of new acts, and to let God act upon us, and so to follow his conduct. This way he prefers to the multiplication of many new acts and different forms of devotion, and he makes small account of corporal austerities, and reduces all the exercises of religion to this simplicity of mind. He thinks this is not only to be proposed to such as live in religious houses, but even to secular persons, and by this he hath proposed a great reformation of men's...
Page 226 - Handing before an altar, as if he were going to confecrate ; and one carrieth a cafe with reliques, within which one feeth a fox ; and the trains of all that go in this proceffion are fupported by monkies. This feems to have been made in hatred of the monks, whom the fecular clergy abhorred at that time ; becaufe they had drawn the...
Page 214 - ... of persuasion ; so that he not only convinces his hearers, but subdues them, and triumphs over them. In such company it was no wonder if time seemed to go off too fast, so that I left Geneva with a concern that I could not have felt in leaving any place out of the Isle of Britain.
Page 75 - I was there, which was toward the end of September; for the sun opening the pores of the earth and rarifying the exterior air, that which is compressed within the cavities that are in the mountains, rushes out with a constant wind ; but when the operation of the sun is weakened, this course of the air is less sensible.
Page 42 - February, 1566, wishes that the Vestments, together with all the other remnants of Popery, might be thrown both out of their Churches and out of the minds of the People, and laments the Queen's fixedness to them, so that she would suffer no change to be made.
Page 26 - Wigand being extreamelie provoked with this bloody reproach, gave him the lie ; upon which a dispute arose, which ended in a tumult, that had almost cost the Dominican his life, yet he got away. The whole order resolved to take their revenge, and in a chapter held at Vimpsen, in the year 1504, they contrived a method for supporting the credit of their order, which was much sunk in the opinion...