 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1800 - 612 pages
...way to England, with perfect fafety.' Vol. i. P. 96. The following anecdote is improbable. 1 Iraly was a mine replete with wealth ; and while the major...intentions of their conqueror, he, though naturally enveloped with referve, wağ led by a pretty woman to betray thofe intentions very plainly ; for as... | |
 | Adriana Craciun, Kari Lokke, Kari E. Lokke - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 414 pages
...observant reader can see Napoleon's sinister intentions for Italy, even though most Italians missed them: Italy, too, was a mine replete with wealth; and while the major part of her Citizens, dazzled by specious promises, and fascinated by a phantom falsely called Liberty, were blind to the real intentions... | |
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Italy, too, was a mine replete with wealth; and while the major part of her Citizens, dazzled by fpecious promifes^ and fafcinated by a phantom falfely called Liberty, were blind to the real intentions of their Conqueror, he, though naturally envelloped... 