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Pagina 39
... Europe may be considered as immersed in ignorance , or making but feeble efforts to rise . Spain has long fallen from amazing Europe with her wit to amusing them with the greatness of her Catholic credulity . Rome con- siders her as the ...
... Europe may be considered as immersed in ignorance , or making but feeble efforts to rise . Spain has long fallen from amazing Europe with her wit to amusing them with the greatness of her Catholic credulity . Rome con- siders her as the ...
Pagina 95
... Europe there are to be found Englishmen residing either from interest or choice . These generally lead a life of ... Europe in a post - chaise , and the pilgrim who walks the grand tour on foot , will form very different conclusions.1 To ...
... Europe there are to be found Englishmen residing either from interest or choice . These generally lead a life of ... Europe in a post - chaise , and the pilgrim who walks the grand tour on foot , will form very different conclusions.1 To ...
Pagina 108
... Europe served at that period of which I am speaking only to promote envy in the respective writers of those two countries . They both took every method to depreciate the merit of each other ; the French seldom mentioned the English but ...
... Europe served at that period of which I am speaking only to promote envy in the respective writers of those two countries . They both took every method to depreciate the merit of each other ; the French seldom mentioned the English but ...
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CHAPTER | 3 |
III | 21 |
Of the present state of polite learning in Italy | 27 |
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