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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    are very few whom (he refufes to fup- ply with the * conveniences, and none with the neceffaries of life. Such a benefadrefs as this muft na¬ turally be beloved by mankind in gene¬ ral ; it would be wonderful, therefore, if her intereft was not confidered by them, and proteded from the fraud and violence of fome of her rebellious offspring, who coveting more than their fhare, or more than fhe thinks proper to allow them, are daily em¬ ployed in meditating mifchief again!!; her, and in endeavouring to fteal from their brethren thofe fhares which this great alma mater had allowed them. At length our Governor came on board, and about fix in the evening we weighed anchor, and fell down to the Nore, whither our palfage was ex¬ tremely pleafant, the evening being very delightful, the moon juft pa ft the full, and both wind and tide favourable to us.