2012, ISBN: 148026136X

[EAN: 9781480261365], Neubuch, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing … Altro …

[EAN: 9781480261365], Neubuch, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, United States], Language: English. Brand new Book. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: .grisettes1 pockets?--The old French officer smiled, and, whispering in my ear, opened a door of knowledge which I had no idea of.--Good God, said I, turning pale with astonishment, --is it possible that a people so smit with sentiment should at the same time be so unclean, and so unlike themselves?--Quelle grossiereti! added I.--The French officer told me it was an illiberal sarcasm at the church which had begun in the theatre about the time the Tartuffe was given in it, by Moliere: --but like other remains of Gothic manners, was declining.--Every nation, continued he, have their refinements and grossihrete's, in which they take the lead, and lose it of one another by turns;--that he had been in most countries, but never in one but where he found some delicacies, which others seemed to want. Le pour et le contre se trouvent e"n chaque nation; there is a balance, said he, of good and bad everywhere; and nothing but knowing it is so can emancipate one half of the world from the prepossession which it holds against the other: --that the advantage of travel, as it regarded the savoir vivre, was by seeing a great deal both of men and manners; it taught us mutual toleration; and mutual toleration, concluded he, making me a bow, taught us mutual love. The old French officer delivered this with an air of such candour and good sense as coincided with my first favourable impressions of his character: --I thought I loved the man; but I fear I mistook the object: --'twas my own way of thinking, --the difference was, I could not have expressed it half so well It is alike troublesome to both the rider and his beast--if the latter goes pricking up his ears and starting all the way At every object which he never saw before.--I have as little torment of this kind., Books<

ISBN: 9781480261365

Book Excerpt : ...ll a lottery;--and even where the adventurer is successful, the acquired stock must be used with caution and sobriety, to turn to any profit: --but, as the chanc… Altro …

Book Excerpt : ...ll a lottery;--and even where the adventurer is successful, the acquired stock must be used with caution and sobriety, to turn to any profit: --but, as the chances run prodigiously the other way, both as to the acquisition and application, I am of opinion, That a man would act as wisely, if he could prevail upon himself to live contented without foreign knowledge or foreign improvements, especially if he lives in a country that has no absolute want of either;--and indeed, much grief of heart has it oft and many a time cost me, when I have observed how many a foul step the Inquisitive Traveller has measured to see sights and look into discoveries; all which, as Sancho Panza said to Don Quixote, they might have seen dry-shod at home. It is an age so full of light, that there is scarce a country or corner in Europe whose beams are not crossed and interchanged with others.--Knowledge in most of its branches, and in most affairs, is like music in an Italian street, whereof those may partake who pay nothing.--But... Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Classics>Coll Classics>Coll Classics, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

ISBN: 9781480261365

Yorick, Sterne's Englishman abroad, is blithely unconcerned by famous views or monuments. Bumping along in his coach, the amiable parson buttonholes us with tales of his encounters with a… Altro …

Yorick, Sterne's Englishman abroad, is blithely unconcerned by famous views or monuments. Bumping along in his coach, the amiable parson buttonholes us with tales of his encounters with all manner of men and women -- particularly the attractive ones. And, as drama piles upon drama, anecdote, flirtation and digression, his destination takes second place to an exhilarating voyage of emotional discovery. Interweaving sharp wit with gaiety, irony with sentiment, Sterne creates a deliberately artless novel which calls to mind the modernism of Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. In A Sentimental Journey, Woolf declared, 'we are as close to life as we can be'. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Classics>Coll Classics>Coll Classics, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

ISBN: 9781480261365

This edition of A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne is given by Ashed Phoenix - Million Book Edition Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Classics>Coll Classics>Coll Classics, CreateSpace Pub… Altro …

This edition of A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne is given by Ashed Phoenix - Million Book Edition Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Classics>Coll Classics>Coll Classics, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

ISBN: 9781480261365

This edition of A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne is given by Ashed Phoenix - Million Book Edition Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Literature>Literature>Literature, CreateSpace Publish… Altro …

This edition of A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne is given by Ashed Phoenix - Million Book Edition Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Literature>Literature>Literature, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<