The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    making them pay at their own difcre- tion for their deliverance : to fay the truth, whether it be that men, who live on the fea-fhore, are of an amphi¬ bious kind, and do not entirely partake of human nature, or whatever elfe may be the reafon, they are fo far from taking any {hare in the dilTrefles of mankind, or of being moved with any compafiion for them, that they look upon them as blelfings fhower’d down from above; and which the more they improve to their own ufe, the greater is their gratitude and piety. Thus at Gravefend, a fculler requires a (hilling for going lefs way than he would row in London for three-pence ; and, at Deal, a boat often brings more profit in a day, than it can produce in London in a week, or, perhaps, in a month : in both places, the owner of the boat founds his demand on the neceflity and diftrefsof one, who (lands more or lefs in abfolute want of his afliftance ; and with the urgency of thefe, always rifes in the exorbitancy of his demand, without