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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    before we examined into its original. The e are, indeed, two different ways of tracing all things, ufed by the hifto- rian and the antiquary; thefe are up¬ wards, and downwards. The former fhews you how things are, and leaves to others to difcover when they began to be fo. The latter fhews you how things were, and leaves their prefent exigence to be examined by others. Hence the former is more ufeful, the latter more curious. The former re-' ceives the thanks of mankind, the latter of that valuable part, the vir- tuofi. In explaining, therefore, this myf- tery of carrying goods and. pafTengers from one place to another, hitherto fo profound a fecret to the very beft of our readers, we fhali purfue the hi ft rical method, and endeavour to fhew by what means it is at prefent performed, referr ng the more curious enquiry ei¬ ther to fome o her pen, or to fome other opportunity. D 4 Now