 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 500 sider
...life, and to have confulted his fenfes, not his imagination. He meets with no bafilifks that deftroy with their eyes; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears ; and his * For an account of this book, fbc the Life of Dr. Jobn/oat by the Editor. VOL. IX. F f cataracts cataracts... | |
 | Jerónimo Lobo - 1789 - 520 sider
...life ; and to have confulted his fenfes not his imagination. He meets with no bafilifks that deftroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears ; and his cataracts fall from the rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. THE reader will here find no regions curfed with... | |
 | Jerónimo Lobo - 1789 - 544 sider
...their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears ; and his cataracts fall from the rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. THE reader will here find no regions curfed with irremediable barrennefs, or blefled with fpontaneous feb 2 cundity; cundity ; no perpetual... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 556 sider
...life, and to have confulted his fenfes, not his imagination. He meets with no bafilifks that deftroy with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey...inhabitants. " The reader will here find no regions curfed with irremediable barrennefs, or blefied with fpontaneous fecundity; no perpetual gloom, or... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 564 sider
...life, and to have confulted his fenfes, not his imagination. He meets with no bafilifks that deftroy with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey...rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. "IJge reader will here find no regions curfed with irremediable barrennefs, or Welted with fpontaneous... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 554 sider
...life, and to have confulted his fenfes, not his imagination. He meets with no bafilifks that deftroy with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his catarafts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. " The reader will here... | |
 | 1792 - 574 sider
...life; and to have confulted his fcnfcs, not his imagination. He meets with no bafililks, that dcfiroy with their eyes; his crocodiles devour their prey, without tears; and his catafafts fall from the rock, without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. The reader will here... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 652 sider
...their eyes; his cro" codiles devour their prey, without tears ; and " his cataracts fall from the rock, without " deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. The ** reader will here find no regions curfed with ** irremediable barrenaefs, or blefied with fpon" taneous fecundity ; no perpetual gloom,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 sider
...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...." The reader will here find no regions cursed with irremediable barrenness, or blessed with spontaneous fecundity ; no perpetual gloom, or unceasing sunshine... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 sider
...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....basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles shows. He says that in the dissertations alone an exact translation has been attempted. The rest of... | |
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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... 
