Franklin's Letters to His Kinsfolk, Written During the Years 1818, '19 & '20, from Edinburgh, London, The Highlands of Scotland, and Ireland, Volume 1J. Maxwell, 1822 - England |
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Page iii
... light and unelaborate reading , is felt by every one - and no works have this tendency more than accounts of foreign countries from real observation . They furnish new facts , spread general information , dissipate prejudices , and ...
... light and unelaborate reading , is felt by every one - and no works have this tendency more than accounts of foreign countries from real observation . They furnish new facts , spread general information , dissipate prejudices , and ...
Page iv
... light of truth can be elicited . The Author has spoken with freedom on the various subjects he has treated , but always with perfect sincerity , and he believes with strict impartiality . He has exposed vice and error , without regard ...
... light of truth can be elicited . The Author has spoken with freedom on the various subjects he has treated , but always with perfect sincerity , and he believes with strict impartiality . He has exposed vice and error , without regard ...
Page vi
... light , un- pretending nature , and more calculated for amusement than to expand the horizon of knowledge , the Reviewer cannot expect the cold correctness of an elaborate dissertation . A young Author who ventures before the pub- lic ...
... light , un- pretending nature , and more calculated for amusement than to expand the horizon of knowledge , the Reviewer cannot expect the cold correctness of an elaborate dissertation . A young Author who ventures before the pub- lic ...
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... lights which glimmer in the windows . You fancy that a real lake floats before you , and that her " mirror blue " reflects the starry host with which the firma- ment is spangled . The amazing height of the houses in the Old Town of ...
... lights which glimmer in the windows . You fancy that a real lake floats before you , and that her " mirror blue " reflects the starry host with which the firma- ment is spangled . The amazing height of the houses in the Old Town of ...
Page 3
... lights that live along the sky . " I had not been long in the " Athens of the North , " as Edinburgh is gratuitously termed , before I was made sensible of a certain Pres- byterian stiffness in the manners of its inhabi- tants . I was ...
... lights that live along the sky . " I had not been long in the " Athens of the North , " as Edinburgh is gratuitously termed , before I was made sensible of a certain Pres- byterian stiffness in the manners of its inhabi- tants . I was ...
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