 A man who has not been in Italy is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean.  The Life of William Cowper, Esq - Page 185by Robert Southey - 1839Full view - About this book
 | John Lempriere - 1843 - 670 pages
...most splendid cities of the ancient world. " On those shores," to use the language of Dr. Johnson, " were the four great empires of the world — the Assyrian,...all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sits us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean." , the goddess of healing,... | |
 | Modern poetical speaker, Fanny Bury PALLISER - 1845 - 540 pages
...thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. 1 " The grand object of all travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean....; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Unman. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages,... | |
 | Francis Schroeder - Mediterranean Sea - 1846 - 338 pages
...city in the world. Gulf of Tunis, August 14th, 1845. DOCTOR JOHNSON says, " The grand object of all travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean....Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our laws, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of... | |
 | Henry Francis Cary - Poets, English - 1846 - 436 pages
...always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has... | |
 | James Pillans - 1847 - 300 pages
...eastern boundary ; — in Italy, bounded * " The great object of travelling," says Dr Samuel Johnson, " is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. On those...Grecian, and the Roman. All our religion, almost all our laws, almost all our arts, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1847 - 880 pages
...inferiority, from hi* not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of all en wonts of the sentinel, AJ his measured step on the stone below Cla wore- the four preat empires of the world ; the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman.... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1849 - 440 pages
...— India, China, and probably the continent of America. And it is remarkable, that the four grand empires of the world, the Assyrian, the Persian, the Grecian, and the Roman, descended, the two former from Shem, the two latter from Japheth. Nimrod. Amidst a barren list of genealogical... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1851 - 682 pages
...his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to visit the shores of the Mediterranean. On those shores were...All our religion, almost all our law, almost all our ails, almost all that sets us above savages, has come to us from the shores of the Mediterranean."... | |
 | William Cowper, Robert Southey - 1853 - 518 pages
...apparently a thought which Paoli, as reported by Boswell30, had thrown M Dec. 5, 1791. » Dec. 10. 50 Dining at General Paoli's, Johnson said, " The grand...empires of the world, the Assyrian, the Persian, the out in conversation, proposed to him the Mediterranean for a topic. He replied, " Unless I were a better... | |
 | William Cowper - 1854 - 560 pages
...taking up apparently a thought which Paoli, as reported by Boswell30, had thrown "6 Dec. 5, 1791. 89 Dec. 10. 30 Dining at General Paoli's, Johnson said,...empires of the world, the Assyrian, the Persian, the out in conversation, proposed to him the Mediterranean for a topic. He replied, " Unless I were a better... | |
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