Amusements serious and comical / calculated for the meridian of London. By Mr. Brown.

  • Tom Brown
Date:
1700
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Credit: Amusements serious and comical / calculated for the meridian of London. By Mr. Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i a en 3 sm > Variety, and perhaps with Diver- fion, — : fs : ina | on Thus I am refolv’d to take upor. me tlic Genius of an ZIxdian, who has had the Curiofiry to Travel hi: ther among us, and who had never _ feen any thing like what he fees in London, We thall fee how he will be amazed at certain things, which the Prejudice of Cuftome makes, to feem Reafonable and Natural to US. : ' oe . To diverfifie the Stile of my Nar- ration, I will fometimes make, my Traveller {peak, and fometimes I will take up the Difceurfemy felf: TI wilk -Yeprefent to my felf the abftracted Ideas. of an Indian, and I will likewife reprefent ours to him. In fhort, ta- King it for granted, that we two urt- derftand one another by half a Word, f will fet both his-and my Imaginati- Onon theRamble: Thofe that won't take the Pains to follow us, may ftay where they are, and fpare themfelves Book ; but they that are minded to Amufe themfelves, ought to attend the Caprice of the Author fo ra few « Moments, Og te t
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