Bishop Burnet's travels through Switzerland, Italy, some parts of Germany, &c. To which is added, an appendix containing some remarks on Switzerland and Italy, by a person of quality [really G. Burnet ?]. |
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Page 144 - I walked indeed a great way, and found galleries going off in all hands without end; and, whereas, in the Roman catacombs there are not above three or four rows of niches that are cut out in the rock, one over another, into which the dead bodies were laid ; here there are generally six or seven rows of those niches, and they are both larger and higher.
Page 186 - ... 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 124 - Italy are made at a great coft ; the ftatues and fountains are very rich and noble, the grounds are well laid out, and the walks are long and even : but as they have no gravel to give them thofe firm and beautiful walks that we have in England, fo the conftant greennefs of the box doth...
Page 73 - When they have made up estates elsewhere they are glad to leave Italy and the best parts of Germany, and to come and live among those mountains of which the very sight is enough to fill a man with horror." The accomplished Evelyn, giving an account of his journey from Italy through the Alps, dilates upon the terrible, the melancholy, and the uncomfortable; but, till he comes to the fruitful country in the neighbourhood of Geneva, not a syllable of delight or praise.
Page 31 - .dmoft quite difpeopled, and the people in it are reduced to a mifery that can fcarce be imagined by thofe who have not feen it : and France is in a great meafure difpeopled, and the inhabitants are reduced to a poverty that appears in all the marks in which it can mew itfelf, both in their houfes, furniture, cloaths, and looks.
Page 27 - So she bid him reach his hand , he had no great mind to receive a favour in which he was to suffer so much ; but she forced his hand, and struck a nail through it, the hole was as big as a grain of peas, and he saw the candle through it.
Page 72 - Value, and fo fhe went back to do that, and was buried with the reft: For at the Hour of Supper the Hill fell down, and buried the To-wn and all the Inhabitants, fo that not one Perfon e'fcaped.
Page 68 - 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 86 - The preceptor, that ner f<uher kept in the houfe with her, hath likewife a wonderful faculty of acquiring tongues. When he came firft to Geneva, (for he is of Zurich), he fpoke not a word of French, and within thirteen months he preached in French correftly, and with a good accent.
Page 86 - 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...