He appears, by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes; his crocodiles... The Parterre - Page 3901835Full view - About this book
| English literature - 1925 - 638 pages
...of his country men, has amused his reader with no romantic absurdities or romantic fictions. . . . He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their...rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. The reader will find here no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness or blest with spontaneous... | |
| James Boswell - 1928 - 670 pages
...should believe him who cannot contradict him. " He appears by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, to have copied...devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall trom the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. "The reader will here find no regions... | |
| Philip Dodd - British - 1982 - 184 pages
...they should believe him, who cannot contradict him. He appears by his modest and unaffected Narration to have described Things as he saw them, to have copied...fall from the Rock without Deafening the Neighbouring Inhabitants.20 Lobo's/rineran'o with its slower building towards the successful entry into Abyssinia.... | |
| Srinivas Aravamudan - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 444 pages
...of probability, has a right to demand, that they should believe him, who cannot contradict him ... he meets with no Basilisks that destroy with their...Rock without Deafening the Neighbouring Inhabitants . . . here are no Hottentots without Religion, Polity, or Articulate Language, no Chinese perfectly... | |
| Father Jerome Lobo - History - 2005 - 197 pages
...they should believe him who cannot contradict him. He appears by bis modest and unaffected narration to have described things as he saw them, to have copied...rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blessed with spontaneous... | |
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