| Henry Ellis - 1818 - 386 páginas
...THE MOUTH OF THE PEI-HO TO THE RETURN TO CANTON. BY HENRY ELLIS, THIRD COMMISSIONER OF THE EMBASSY. It is a strange thing, that in sea voyages, where there is noihing to be seen but sky and sea, men should make diaries ; but in land travel, wherein so much is... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 páginas
...sea-voyages, where there is nothing to be seen but sky and sea, men should make diaries ; but in land-travel, wherein so much is to be observed, for the most part they omit it ; as if chance were fitter to be registered than observation. Let diaries therefore be brought in use. The things to be seen and... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 páginas
...else young men shall go hooded, and look abroad little. It is a strange thing, that in sea-voyages, where there is nothing to be seen but sky and sea, men should make diaries ; but in land-travel, wherein so much is to be observed, for the' most part they omit it ; as if chance were... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 páginas
...exercises or discipline the place yieldeth; for else young men shall go hooded, and look abroad little. It is a strange thing that, in sea voyages, where...the most part they omit it; as if chance were fitter to be registered than observation; let diaries therefore, be brought in use. The things to be seen... | |
| 1821 - 416 páginas
...exercises or discipline the place yieldeth ; for else young men shall go hooded, and look abroad little. It is a strange thing that, in sea voyages, where...the most part they omit it; as if chance were fitter to be registered than observation : let diaries, therefore, be brought in use. The things to be seen... | |
| Henry Matthews - 1822 - 328 páginas
...hope of getting there, till it shall please the wind to change. I remember Lord Bacon says, " 'Tis a strange thing, that in sea voyages, where there...seen but sky and sea, men should make diaries." But it is a stranger thing to me the Viscount of St. Alban's should not perceive, that where there is nothing... | |
| Englishman - 1824 - 420 páginas
...improvement, as every nation, with its peculiar customs and contrivances, can abundantly supply. Bacon says, " It is a strange thing that in sea voyages, where there...seen but sky and sea, men should make diaries, but m land travel, wherein so much is to be observed, for the most part they omit it, as if chance were... | |
| Lady Maria Callcott - 1824 - 376 páginas
...languages, and nothing permitted to pass without observation, fill our time completely. Lord Bacon says, " It is a strange thing that in sea voyages, where " there is nothing to be seen but sky and sea,men should make diaries; " but in land travel, wherein so much is to be observed, for the most... | |
| 1822 - 768 páginas
...a strange thing, says Lord Bacon, that in sea voyages, where nothing is to be seen but sea and sky, men should make diaries, but in land travel, wherein so much is to be seen, they omit it : as if chance were fitter to be registered than observatioDLet diaries, therefore,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 páginas
...exercises or discipline the place yieldeth; for else young men shall go hooded, and look abroad little. It is a strange thing that, in sea voyages, where...the most part they omit it; as if chance were fitter to be registered than observation: let diaries, therefore, be brought in use. The things to be seen... | |
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