Volume 1

Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 and 1799 / By Joseph Acerbi.

  • Giuseppe Acerbi
Date:
1802
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, to the North Cape, in the years 1798 and 1799 / By Joseph Acerbi. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    condition prefents more genuine pleafures; retired on your eftate, you promote and cherifh the happi- nefs of every heart around you; and while you are occupied in the advancement of agriculture, that nobleft art, that trueft fource of national wealth and beft contributor to human felicity, you enjoy the contentment of a peaceful and virtuous life. During my long abfence, memory, faithful to her Girft impreffions, has frequently recalled to me the pleaf- ing fcenes of my youth; and often, amidft the noife of fplendid entertainments, and furrounded by a bril- liant crowd, I have heaved a figh, and found myfelf a ftranger and alone! Diftance has fharpened the re- collection, and my anxious withes have been involun- tarily turned to your happy retreat. It is a truth confirmed by every day’s experience, in individuals as well as-in focieties, that they diminifh their happinefs in proportion to their departure from nature. My diftant excurfions, my long journeys, only ferve
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