Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, Volume 6Enos Bronson Hopkins and Earle, 1811 - Literature, Modern |
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... travellers do not experience in Russia that attention and hospitality to which they conceive themselves entitled , the Russians alone are not to blame . - We assert , however , in com- mon with Sir Robert Wilson , ( and we have no ...
... travellers do not experience in Russia that attention and hospitality to which they conceive themselves entitled , the Russians alone are not to blame . - We assert , however , in com- mon with Sir Robert Wilson , ( and we have no ...
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... traveller between the Chinese and the Hottentots ; and the resemblance is sufficiently remark- able ; he observes too that the latter have not a single canoe for fishing , nor a raft to cross a river . Looking at the isles of France and ...
... traveller between the Chinese and the Hottentots ; and the resemblance is sufficiently remark- able ; he observes too that the latter have not a single canoe for fishing , nor a raft to cross a river . Looking at the isles of France and ...
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... traveller of the state of the country he has visited , agree with those which from time to time have appeared in the Panorama , that it might almost be inferred that our pages had been graced with commu- nications from Mr. Jacob's pen ...
... traveller of the state of the country he has visited , agree with those which from time to time have appeared in the Panorama , that it might almost be inferred that our pages had been graced with commu- nications from Mr. Jacob's pen ...
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... traveller with clearness , and , we believe , with ac- curacy . It is true , that much is due , by way of allowance to the opinions and the measures of persons suddenly called from the privacies of life , to discharge the delicate ...
... traveller with clearness , and , we believe , with ac- curacy . It is true , that much is due , by way of allowance to the opinions and the measures of persons suddenly called from the privacies of life , to discharge the delicate ...
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... traveller , an innate air of truth . While they interest our feelings in the toils and dangers of Mr. Pike and his companions , they lead us through a variety of country , of people , and of manners ; and the narrative thus produces a ...
... traveller , an innate air of truth . While they interest our feelings in the toils and dangers of Mr. Pike and his companions , they lead us through a variety of country , of people , and of manners ; and the narrative thus produces a ...
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