Sailor's Letters Written to His Select Friends in England During His Voyages and Travels in Europe, Asia, Africa and America from the Year 1754 to 1759, 1
Sailor's Letters Written to His Select Friends in England During His Voyages and Travels in Europe, Asia, Africa and America from the Year 1754 to 1759, 1
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1767 edition. Excerpt: ... and docility, as your humble fervant does of Yours, &c. Pqftfcript. How inftind varies in the grov'ling fwine, - Compar'd, half reas'ning elephant, with thine!: Pope credits Pliny, but who'll credit mine? J LET. LETTER VIII. To G. T. Efq; Vizagapatam, Auguft 4, 1754. AAM now in the midft of a Nabob's feraglio ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1767 edition. Excerpt: ... and docility, as your humble fervant does of Yours, &c. Pqftfcript. How inftind varies in the grov'ling fwine, - Compar'd, half reas'ning elephant, with thine!: Pope credits Pliny, but who'll credit mine? J LET. LETTER VIII. To G. T. Efq; Vizagapatam, Auguft 4, 1754. AAM now in the midft of a Nabob's feraglio, --where three hundred chofen beauties are devoted for his pleafure: --but, alas! tho' in the midft of thefe lovely creatures, whofe ages are from nine to feventeen, I cannot fee one: --a centinel protects every door, and to force one would be cruel, when the other day he was defeated, and ftripped of every necefiary but thefe--the mof t cordial in life. And yet, when I reflect on their forlorn fituation, --I am almoft almoft mad enough to commence Quixcte--and 1 certainly mould, if I had a Sancbo to accompany me, but fighting of windmills folus, affords no pleafing remarks, --for the higheft entertainment is fighting the battle over again, as your Yorkfhire jockeys kill the fox;--but indeed thefe young beauties deferve our warmed pity, --when we recollect this amorous Nabob is at Belly, --the feat of the Great Mogul: think what fighs and tears are fhed and blown for him, --whilft I, as loving as he, am a vagrant in an unknown land: their huts are only compofed of clay, and thatched; fo, wherever he pitches his camp, thefe are erected for their privacy and convenience.--I am told there's a great jealoufy fubfifts among them, --and that he he is as ftudious to prevent it.--I havebeen prefented with a little ode written by one of his ladies on her rival, --but the language is fo difficult, --and I am fo little acquainted with it, --I fear I fhall not do it that juftice fo great a curiofity merits, --but you fhall have the fenfe of it.--ZlNZEMERZA toCALIL...
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