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Dr. Sournav, speaking of the works of travellers, very justly remarks, that of such books we cannot have too many! And adds, with equal truth, that because they contribute to the instruction of the learned, their reputation suffers no diminution by the course of time, but that age rather enhances their value. Every man, indeed, whose compre hensive mind enables him to sympathize with human nature under all its various aspects, and to detect - through the endless disguises superinduced by strange religions, policies, manners, or climate passions, weaknesses, and virtues akin to his own, must peruse the relations of veracious travellers with peculiar satisfaction and delight. But there 'is another point of view in which the labours of this class of writers may be contemplated with advan tage. Having made use of them as a species of telescope for bringing remote scenes near our ih tellectual eye, it may, perhaps, be of considerable utility to observe the effect of so many dissimilar and unusual objects, as necessarily present them selves to travellers, Upon the mind, character, and happiness of the individuals who beheld them. This, in fact, is the business of the biographer; and it is what I have endeavoured to perform, to the best of my abilities, in the following Lives.
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- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1330852001
- ISBN 13 9781330852002
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages328
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