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' Cit git Rousseau I chez lui tout fut contraste , II aima les humains , mais se fut pour les fuir : II perdit sa patrie en voulant la servir : Modeste avec orgueil , —il fut pauvre avec faste ;—Ne sxvt pas vivre , —et silt mourir . ' c Here lies Rousseau , the slave of truth and ficlion , Who lived and died a lendid contradiction :
sp With love of man he fled the world , and gave His country wounds whene ' er he meant to save . Haughty , though poor , and modest , yet with pride , He liv'd to folly , and to virtue died . ' , P . 491 . Mr . Owen ' s travels extended a considerable way into Italy , and comprehended Switzerland and a great part of Germany . His letters , therefore , occasionallstrik
comprise a great variety of objecls , and his descriptions are y - ing , though seldom detailed . Travels through 'various Provinces of the Kingdom of Naples in 1789 . By Charles Ulysses , ofSalis Marschlius . Translated from the German by Anthony Aufrere , Esq . Illustrated with engravings . Pages 527 . 8 w . Price 8 _ . Cadell and Davies . Loudon , 1795 .
THE travels of every one naturally derive their complexion and characler from the prevailing sentiments and turn of mind of their author . Some travellers are attentive chiefly to the manners , and modes , and anecdotes , of distinguished persons in high life ; some to the nature of the government of any . country , and the state of civil society ; some to antiquities ; and some to the present state of literature and science , and so on . The general scholar and ¦ observer pays more or less regard to all these , and every other objeft worthy castof
of notice ; but still every traveller is'distinguished by a particular _ thought , by a particular propensity to indulge in one species of observation and reflection rather than another . - . The traveller now before us is a nnan of good parts , and extensive knowledge of various , kinds ; but the subjefts to which he is chiefly drawn , in all the " turnings of his tour , are natural history , the state , of agriculture ,- ' and that of society among the higher , as well as lower ,, ranks in the country . Tarantoand bthe celebrated
Accompanied by the worthy archbishop of , y naturalist Abbe Fortis , he left Naples , upon the 26 th of March , 1789 , and Followed the Apulian road , which leads dire-fly towards the north-east , across the Terra di Lavoro , into the Appenines . As they ^ ourneyed from Molsetta to Taranto , late in the evening of the 1 st of April , they arrived at St . Basil , a country house belonging to the Duke of Martina , after a fatiguing and tedious day ' s journey of forty miles . _ , This nobleman entirely devoting his time to country occupations , afforded our author much entertainment , by a display of his various arrangements for his different flocks and herds .
' During the supper , which , though plentiful , was a perfectly rural Repast , the conversation turned upon the nature of the country , and the state of agriculture . My inquiries upon that , head greatly pleased the duke , who discovered liis extreme partiality for country occupations , and promised to shew me all his new arrangements , and his different flocks and herds . But Inever suspedted that , in order to procure . me this satisfaction ,. he was to send ( as I afterwards found he did ) eight or nine miles * . in the night to his shepherds 2
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Review Of New Publications.
' Cit git Rousseau I chez lui tout fut contraste , II aima les humains , mais se fut pour les fuir : II perdit sa patrie en voulant la servir : Modeste avec orgueil , —il fut pauvre avec faste ;—Ne sxvt pas vivre , —et silt mourir . ' c Here lies Rousseau , the slave of truth and ficlion , Who lived and died a lendid contradiction :
sp With love of man he fled the world , and gave His country wounds whene ' er he meant to save . Haughty , though poor , and modest , yet with pride , He liv'd to folly , and to virtue died . ' , P . 491 . Mr . Owen ' s travels extended a considerable way into Italy , and comprehended Switzerland and a great part of Germany . His letters , therefore , occasionallstrik
comprise a great variety of objecls , and his descriptions are y - ing , though seldom detailed . Travels through 'various Provinces of the Kingdom of Naples in 1789 . By Charles Ulysses , ofSalis Marschlius . Translated from the German by Anthony Aufrere , Esq . Illustrated with engravings . Pages 527 . 8 w . Price 8 _ . Cadell and Davies . Loudon , 1795 .
THE travels of every one naturally derive their complexion and characler from the prevailing sentiments and turn of mind of their author . Some travellers are attentive chiefly to the manners , and modes , and anecdotes , of distinguished persons in high life ; some to the nature of the government of any . country , and the state of civil society ; some to antiquities ; and some to the present state of literature and science , and so on . The general scholar and ¦ observer pays more or less regard to all these , and every other objeft worthy castof
of notice ; but still every traveller is'distinguished by a particular _ thought , by a particular propensity to indulge in one species of observation and reflection rather than another . - . The traveller now before us is a nnan of good parts , and extensive knowledge of various , kinds ; but the subjefts to which he is chiefly drawn , in all the " turnings of his tour , are natural history , the state , of agriculture ,- ' and that of society among the higher , as well as lower ,, ranks in the country . Tarantoand bthe celebrated
Accompanied by the worthy archbishop of , y naturalist Abbe Fortis , he left Naples , upon the 26 th of March , 1789 , and Followed the Apulian road , which leads dire-fly towards the north-east , across the Terra di Lavoro , into the Appenines . As they ^ ourneyed from Molsetta to Taranto , late in the evening of the 1 st of April , they arrived at St . Basil , a country house belonging to the Duke of Martina , after a fatiguing and tedious day ' s journey of forty miles . _ , This nobleman entirely devoting his time to country occupations , afforded our author much entertainment , by a display of his various arrangements for his different flocks and herds .
' During the supper , which , though plentiful , was a perfectly rural Repast , the conversation turned upon the nature of the country , and the state of agriculture . My inquiries upon that , head greatly pleased the duke , who discovered liis extreme partiality for country occupations , and promised to shew me all his new arrangements , and his different flocks and herds . But Inever suspedted that , in order to procure . me this satisfaction ,. he was to send ( as I afterwards found he did ) eight or nine miles * . in the night to his shepherds 2