Travels in Portugal: Through the Provinces of Entre Douro E Minho, Beira, Estremadura, and Alem-tejo, in the Years 1789 and 1790, Consisting of Observations on the Manners, Customs, Trade, Public Buildings, Arts, Antiquities, &c. of that Kingdom

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A. Strahan, 1795 - 311 páginas
 

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Página 194 - Britain shall, in her own name, and that of her successors, be obliged, for ever hereafter, to admit the wines of the growth of Portugal into Britain...
Página 116 - Before the torch was kindled, and whilst they agonized at every pore under the most lingering tortures, their hearts were cut out, one at his breast, the other at his back. Lastly, the pyre was set in a blaze, in presence of which lie dined, whilst they evaporated in flames.
Página 144 - Rofe by the z hand that wrought proud Ilion's fall ; Thou queen * of cities, whom the feas obey, Thy dreaded ramparts own'd the hero's fway. Far from the north a warlike navy bore From Elbe, from Rhine, and Albion's mifty fhore, To refcue Salem's long-polluted fhrine ; Their force to great Alonzo's force they join : Before Ulyfles' walls the navy rides, The joyful Tagus laves their pitchy fides.
Página 114 - ... affairs. The prince unfortunately was abroad on a hunting party when the king arrived. The beautiful victim came out to meet him, with her two infant children, who clung about his knees, screaming aloud for mercy.
Página 202 - ... the ground ; in the mean time he conveys the letter under the lady's drapery, and brings back another. " At other times when the lovers are coming out of the church, their hands meet as it were by chance in the holy water font ; by this means they exchange billets, and enjoy the deleftable pleafure of preffing each other's fingers.
Página 200 - Change at eleven, dines at one, fleeps till three, eats fruit at four, and fups at nine : the intermediate hours are employed in the counting-houfe, in paying viiits, or playing at cards.
Página i - Travels in Portugal ; through the Provinces of Entre Douro e Minho, Beira, Estremadura, and Alem-tejo, in the Years 1789 and 1790. Consisting of Observations on the Manners, Customs, Trade, Public Buildings, Arts, Antiquities, &c. of that Kingdom.
Página 202 - Gallicians, who may be called the hewers of wood and drawers of water of this metropolis ; they are patient, induftrious, and faithful to a proverb.
Página 126 - The lions roaring, and the tygers yell, There with mine infant race, consign'd to dwell, There let me try that piety to find, In vain by me implored from human kind : There in some dreary cavern's rocky womb, Amid the horrors of sepulchral gloom, For him whose love I mourn, my love shall glow, The sigh shall murmur, and the tear shall flow...
Página 41 - ... itself over all nature. All beings receive their life from Him. There is but one only God, who is not, as some are apt to imagine, seated above the world, beyond the orb of the universe ; but being Himself all in all, He sees all the beings that fill His immensity, the only principle, the light of Heaven, the Father of all. He produces everything, He orders and disposes everything ; He is the reason, the life, and the motion of all being.

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