Bishop Burnet's Travels Through France, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland: Describing Their Religion, Learning, Government, Customs, Natural History, Trade, &c., and Illustrated with Curious Observations on the Buildings, Paintings, Antiquities and Other Curiosities in Art and Nature. With a Detection of Frauds and Folly of Popery and Superstition in Some Flagrant Instances, Also Characters of Several Eminent Persons, and Many Other Memorable Things Worthy the Attention of the Curious

Gilbert Burnet

T. Payne, 1750 - Europe - 310 pages

Contents

• Decay of their Wealth occafioned in part thro: 1
• Pag: 2
• felling Estates and the Security of Titles there: 8
• The perpendicular Height of the Hill Maudit: 14
• Their Military Lists and what Number they: 21
• The great: 30
• That Switzerland is better peopled than France: 42
• Freedom from Luxury and Vanity The Magi: 48
• A new Regulation at Bern for the better electing: 56
• Of a Tax under which the Switzers lie when: 60
• The Distribution of the feveral Leagues into: 68
• Of the Valteline Chavannes and Bormio Ter: 74
• Of the Massacre in the Valteline Anno 1618: 81
• Of the Way from Coire to Chavannes with: 88
• fulness as to all fort of Provisions with: 89
• Of the Lakes of Chavannes and Como: 97
• The Hospital: 105
• Its Wealth The Num: 114
• The Wine called Vino Santo that grows near: 120
• Of the Lagunes and that they grow daily more: 129
• The Man: 131
• Dignity is not worth a wife Mans Courting: 138
• Most of the young Nobility corrupted in their: 144
• The Sum they: 152
• The Town: 159
• Of Pope Joans Statue there and the Authors: 164
• Florence much decayed and Sienna and Piſa: 170
• The Pope the most Abfolute Prince in Europe: 174
• The present Viceroy of Naples the Marquis: 181
• From ROME: 185
• Scandalously in felling it by Retail: 186
• Its Bigness Beauty: 193
• When Burying began among the Romans discourſed: 201
• Of the Cave that pierceth the Pauſalippe with: 208
• Of Rome The Via Flamminia on the Tuſcan: 216
• Of the learned Men at Rome fuch as Bellori: 224
• Romans have of their Wives and why with: 231
• A Character of the young Prince Borghese: 238
• From NIMEGUEN: 245
• Of Brifac and the Fortification belonging to it with: 262
• Account of some Figures in the Cloister: 268
• Served among the Archives of that City Lewd Women: 274
• Men be can bring into the Field How he and: 277
• The Palace The Jeſuits College: 285
• A 3: 293

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Page 277 - there is a picture one would think invented to ridicule transubstantiation. There is a windmill, and the Virgin Mary throws Christ into the hopper, and he comes out at the eye of the mill all in wafers, which a priest takes up to give to the people.

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Page 115 - Father kept in the Houfe with her, hath likewife a wonderful Faculty of acquiring Tongues* When he came firft to Geneva (for he is of Zurich) he fpoke not a word of French, and within thirteen Months he preach'd in French eorrectly, and with a good Accent.

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Bibliographic information

• Title: Bishop Burnet's Travels Through France, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland: Describing Their Religion, Learning, Government, Customs, Natural History, Trade, &c., and Illustrated with Curious Observations on the Buildings, Paintings, Antiquities and Other Curiosities in Art and Nature. With a ...
• Author: Gilbert Burnet
• Publisher: T. Payne, 1750
• Original from: Oxford University
• Digitized: Mar 29, 2007
• Length: 310 pages