 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1843 - 492 pagina’s
...Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit...St. Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra ; but am I not prophesying, contrary to my consummate prudence, and casting horoscopes of empires like... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1844 - 432 pagina’s
...Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit...St. Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra; but am I not prophesying, contrary to my consummate prudence, and casting horoscopes of empires like... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - 1846 - 534 pagina’s
...think, on the side of the phdn at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit...ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmvra; but am I not prophesying, contrary to my consummate prudence, and casting horoscopes of empire... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - 1846 - 532 pagina’s
...think, on the side of the phon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit...and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, Fike the editions of Balbec and Palmyra; but am I not prophesying, contrary to my consummate prudence,... | |
 | 1895 - 666 pagina’s
...wrote Walpole to Mann, in 1774, when mankind was still surveyed from China to Pero, " some carious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's." WF WALLER. POINSETTIA. — The name of the American statesman from whom this plant (botanically called... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 578 pagina’s
...Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a " Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from " Lima will visit...Paul's, like " the editions of Balbec and Palmyra." Letters to Mann, ii. 297-301. 1766. reached. It was social rank that had helped Anstey, for ..Et.38.... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 572 pagina’s
...Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a " Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At hist, some curious traveller from " Lima will visit England,...Paul's, like " the editions of Balbec and Palmyra." Inters to Mann, ii. 297-301. 1766. reached. It was social rank that had helped Anstey, for ^Et.38.... | |
 | 1857 - 850 pagina’s
...Thucydide» at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit...St. Paul's like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra : — but am I not prophesying, contrary to my consummate prudence, and casting horoscopes of empires,... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1857 - 566 pagina’s
...Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima' will visit...St. Paul's, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra ; but am I not prophesying, contrary to my consummate prudence, and casting horoscopes of empires like... | |
 | 1857 - 1712 pagina’s
...Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit...England' and give a description of the ruins of St. Pouts, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra : — but am I not prophesying, contrary to my consummate... | |
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The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England... 
