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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    hi (Tory yields us fuch imperfedt ac¬ counts of the refidence, and much more imperfedt, of the travels of the human race ; unlefs, perhaps, as a cu¬ rious and learned member of the young fociety of antiquarians is laid to have hinted his conjectures, that their refi¬ dence and their travels were one and the fame; and this difeovery (for fuch it feems to be) he is laid to have owed to the lighting by accident on a book, which we {hall have occafion to men¬ tion presently, the contents of which were then little: known to the iocietv. J The King ofPrufiia,, moreover,who, from a degree of benevolence and tafte which in either cafe is a rare production in fo northern a climate, is the great encourager of art and fcience, I was well affured would promote fo ufeful a delign, and order his archives to be fearched in my behalf. \ But, after well weighing all thefe advantages, and much meditation on D 3 the