Travelling Anecdotes Through Various Parts of Europe (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Travelling Anecdotes Through Various Parts of Europe I speak of the generality of travellers, who, by their fortune purchase ease at the expence of information and amusement. - Why do I say amusement, when perhaps their lethargic dispositions afford them much more fatisfaction than my conversation with the Carmelite Nuns? - Sleep on then, my torpid countrymen! - lounge with ease in your voluptuous lined chaises. - I will mount the diligence, and study the spirit of the nation I travel through. - 'Tis true, it has no such easy springs, as those you swing upon - it jolts confoundedly: but, what of that? surely my - can bear it as well as the - of the Carmelite Nuns before me. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.