Travels and Voyages, Through Europe, Asia, and Africa, for Nineteen Years. ... by William Lithgow. the Eleventh Edition. Embellished with Copperplates,
Travels and Voyages, Through Europe, Asia, and Africa, for Nineteen Years. ... by William Lithgow. the Eleventh Edition. Embellished with Copperplates,

Author: William Lithgow

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-17

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 9781379318149

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T113283 With a list of subscribers. First published in 1614 as 'A most delectable, and true discourse, of an admired and painefull peregrination from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes in Europe, Asia and Affricke'. Edinburgh: printed by A. Murray and J. Cochran. For J. Meuros, bookseller, Kilmarnock, 1770. xvi,490p., plates: port.; 8°

Travels and Voyages Through Europe, Asia, and Africa, for Nineteen Years
Travels and Voyages Through Europe, Asia, and Africa, for Nineteen Years

Author: William Lithgow

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9781230432380

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1770 edition. Excerpt: ... The patriarch did most kindly entertain us at his house; so did also all the Amaronites of the other villages, who met us in our way, before we came to their towns, and brought presents with them of bread, wine, sigs, olives, salads, capons, eggs, and such like, as they could on a sudden provide. This bishop or patriarch's house is joined with, and hemmed in within the face of an The bijbop os high rock, that serveth for three sides Eden on Li-thereof, the fore and fourth part bebanus. ing only of mason-work. Near unto which falleth precipitately a great torrent over the sasfinous bank, that maketh a grievous noise night and day; which, as I told him, I thought it should turn the bishop stark deaf. But the homely and simple man, (not puffed up with ambitious greed, and glorious apparel, like to our proud prelates in Christendom), told me, that continual custom brought him to dispose upon the day, and sleep better in the night, because of the sounding waters. Where reposing with him one night, my muse the next morning saluted Libanus with these lines. Long and large mount, whose rich spread mantle, see, Affords three colours to my wandering eye: The sirst are corns in their expectant view, Fair barley, rye, and wheat: O hopeful hue ( That quickeneth the prest plough; and for to eat, It makes new toil begin again to sweat. The second sight are wines, the best on earth, And most delicious in their pleasant birth; They 're physical, and good t'expel all sorts Of burning fevers in their violent torts: Which senators of Venice drink for health, There's nought so rare, but is attain'd by wealth. The third is amiable, O verdure green! For paslurage, the best that can be seen t Draw nigh the tops where sire-worn cedars grow, And here or there some..