 | Helen Maria Williams - 1798 - 406 pages
...Eulers and the Boehmens conferred celebrity: and we are told by Mr. Cox, that he found fhopfcecpers in this city reading Virgil, Horace, and Plutarch;...fince his departure. Thefe lettered triumphs, the <c tales of other times," are buried in tenfold gloom: the Swifs themfelves admit, that Bafil is the... | |
 | Yurii Fedorovich Lisyanskii - 1814 - 454 pages
...account of China, speak highly of its laws. I know not what policy there may be in this ; but sure I am, that there is no country in the world where the people are so much oppressed as in this great empire. The insolence, or rather cruelty of office, is such, that... | |
 | Urey Lisiansky - 1814 - 458 pages
...account of China, speak highly of its laws. I know not what policy there may be in this ; but sure I am, that there is no country in the world where the people are so much oppressed as in this great empire. The insolence, or rather cruelty of office, is such, that... | |
 | John Adams - 1816 - 352 pages
...Virgil, Horace, and Plutarch ; from which he was, no doubt, well authorized to draw his conclusion, that there is no •country in the world where the people are so happy. But whatever were the halcyon days of taste and learning at the period of Mr. Cox's visit,... | |
 | Alexander Lukin - 2003 - 446 pages
...account of China, speak highly of its laws. I know not what policy there may be in this; but sure I am, that there is no country in the world where the people are so much oppressed as in this great empire."170 Krusenstem pointed out that the main mistake of Sinophiles... | |
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Cox, that he found mopkeepers in this city reading Virgil, Horace, and Plutarch ; from which he was, no doubt, well authorized to draw his conclufion, that there is no country in the world where the people are fo happy. • But whatever were the Halcyon... 