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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    minute of our appointment. But tradefmen, inn-keepers, and fervants never care to indulge us in matters con¬ trary to our true intereft, which they always know better than ourielves, nor can any bribes corrupt them to go out of their way, whilft they are confulting our good in our own defpight. Our difappointment in the other particular, in defiance of our humility, as it was more extraordinary, was more provoking. In (hort, Mrs. Humphrys no fooner received the news of our in¬ tended arrival, than fhe confidered more the gentility than the humanity of her guefts, and applied herfelf not to that which kindles, but to that which extinguifihes fire, and forgetting to put on her pot, fell to wall ling her houfe. As the meffenger who had brought my venifon was impatient to be dif- patehed,. I ordered it to be brought and laid on the table, in the ioom where