 | Philip Dodd - 1982 - 184 sidor
...contradict him. He appears by his modest and unaffected Narration to have described Things as he saw them, to have copied Nature from the Life, and to have consulted...meets with no Basilisks that destroy with their Eyes, his Crocodiles devour their Prey without Tears, and his Cataracts fall from the Rock without Deafening... | |
 | C. D. Van Strien - 1993 - 484 sidor
...the author "appears by his modest and unaffected narration to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life and to have consulted his senses not his imagination"; the other quotations are from an essay on travel books in The Idler, 97 (23 Feb. 1760); cf. also Curley,... | |
 | Srinivas Aravamudan - 1999 - 444 sidor
...meets with no Basilisks that destroy with their Eyes, his Crocodiles devour their Prey without Tears, and his Cataracts fall from the Rock without Deafening the Neighbouring Inhabitants . . . here are no Hottentots without Religion, Polity, or Articulate Language, no Chinese perfectly... | |
 | E. E. Evans-Pritchard - 2004 - 148 sidor
...Pinkcrton's Voyages, vol. IX, 181 1, p. 143. 2 John Lockman, Travels of the Jesuits, vol. I, 1 743, p. 93. nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses not his imagination.'1 When these early European travellers went beyond description and personal judgments... | |
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He appears, by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes; his crocodiles... 
