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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    without ever confidering, that, from thefe very circumltances, the power or cafe of gratifying fuch demand is in like proportion leflened. Now, as 1 am unwilling that fome conclufions, which may be, I am aware, too juftly drawn from thefe obfervations, fliould be im¬ puted to human nature in general, I have endeavoured to account for them in a way more confident with the good- nefs and dignity of that nature : how¬ ever it be, it fee ms a little to refledt on the governors of fuch monfters, that they do not take fome means to reftrain thefe impofitions, and prevent them from tri¬ umphing any longer in the miferies of thofe, who are, in many circumftances at leaft, their fellow-creatures, and con¬ fidering the diftrefies of a wretched fea- man, from his being wrecked to his being barely wind-bound, as a bleffing fent among them from above, and calling it by that blafphemous name. Friday, July 5. This day I lent a fervant on board a man of war, that was