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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    the order ©f my work, my whole de¬ fig n was fubverted in a moment, by hearing of the difcovery juft mentioned to have been made by the young anti¬ quarian, who from the moil an dent re- cord in the world, (tho’ I don't find the fociety are all agreed in this point) one long preceding the date of the eailieft modern collections, either of books or butterflies, none of which pretend to go beyond the flood, fhews us, that the 'firft man was a traveller, and that he and his family were fcarce fettled in Pa- radife, before they difliked their own home, and became paffengers to ano¬ ther place. lienee it appears, that the humour of travelling is as old as the human race, and that it was their curie from the beginning. By this difcovery my plan became J s i much fhortened, and I found it only neceffary to treat of the conveyance of goods and paffengers from place to place ; which not being univerfally known, feerned proper to be explained, before