Travels Through Italy: Containing New and Curious Observations on that Country ... |
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Page 5 - Perfon^ and yet is altogether a temporal Power exercifed as abfolutely, and, as is generally fuppofed, with more Policy than in any other Monarchy. The Dominions of thofe two crowned Heads (for as yet there are no more) that lie within its Limits, are thofe of his Sardinian Majefty at one End, and of the King of the Two Sicilies at the other. The Duchy of Milan, once the largeft and...
Page 401 - Cloelia for their guide. High on a rock heroic Manlius stood, To guard the temple, and the temple's god. Then Rome was poor; and there you might behold The palace thatch'd with straw, now roof'd with gold. The silver goose before the shining gate There flew, and, by her cackle, sav'd the state. She told the Gauls' approach; th' approaching Gauls, Obscure in night, ascend, and seize the walls.
Page 14 - Allum, and Quarries of fine Marble, Alabafter and Porphyry. In other Parts it abounds with pleafant Hills which are covered with Vines, Oranges, Lemons, Olives, and other Fruits, and in fome Places there are Vallies which produce abundance of Corn and Grafs. It has many little Rivers, but the Chief of them is the...
Page 5 - Venice is an unmixed ariftocrncy, ftill venerable for the •wifdom of its government, as heretofore formidable by the extent of its dominions, as well as a great naval force. The republic of Genoa is an ariftocracy alfo, but not quite fo pure as that of Venice. The Swifs cantons, the Grifons their allies, and the city of Geneva, are fo many different republics, each having its particular form of government, but owing their ftrength to their confederacy, \vhi«h renders them truly great and formidable.
Page 304 - D d much much ufed in making mortar for building, of which there are vaft ftrata in many parts of Italy, may have given rife to this expedient for burying the dead, as it anfwered both purpofes.
Page 161 - And when the ascending soul has wing'd her flight, Let Sleep and Death convey, by thy command, The breathless body to his native land. His friends and people, to his future praise, A marble tomb and pyramid shall raise, And lasting honours to his ashes give; His fame ('tis all the dead can have) shall live.
Page 163 - On the top was a colossus of Trajan, holding in his left hand a sceptre, and in his right a hollow globe of gold, in which his ashes were put ; but Eutropius affirms...
Page 5 - His imperial majefty is confidered as one of the Italian powers, not only in that capacity by which he claims a title, paramount to the greateft part, if not the whole, but particularly alfo as grand-duke of Tufcany.
Page 249 - I could discern it to be filled with red-hot liquid matter, like that in the furnace of a glass-house, which raged and wrought as the waves of the sea...
Page 3 - Defign, and would contribute little or nothing to his Information. Let it fuffice, that from the Frontiers of Switzerland to the Extremity of the Kingdom of Naples, it is about feven hundred and fifty Miles in Length ; and from the Frontiers of the...