Travels in Switzerland: In a Series of Letters to William Melmoth, Esq, Volumul 2Messers. L. White, P. Byrne, Grueber & M'Allister, T. Heery, J. Jones, J. Moore, and W. Jones, 1789 - 1295 pagini Analyse: Description géographique, historique et économique des diverses régions du Pays de Vaud : tome 2, p. 61-98 et p. 157-163. |
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Pagina 33 - It may be added, as one weakness in this great character, that he was always impatient under sickness, as well from his extreme susceptibility of pain, as because he was precluded in that situation from his literary occupations. He was fond, therefore, of taking violent remedies, more calculated to remove the immediate effects of pain, and to check his disorder, than to cure it radically. In his latter years he accustomed himself to opium, which, Zimmerman informs us, he took in so large a dose as...
Pagina 145 - ... from whence, after the force of its current is a little restrained, it falls into the Larian lake. The nature of this spring is extremely surprising ; it ebbs and flows regularly three times a day. The increase and decrease is plainly visible and very amusing to observers.
Pagina 65 - ... he never ftirs a quarter of a mile from his own houfe; for he would not take the trouble of going to Berne, even to attend the King of France. It is more than probable, that much of this extraordinary man's...
Pagina 8 - Alps," on which critics have been highly lavish of praise. He likewise wrote some ethic epistles on the " The Imperfection of human Virtue, on Superstition and Infidelity, the origin of Evil, and on the vanity of Honour ;" also various "Satires," "Doris," a pastoral on his first wife, and his much admired
Pagina 8 - Alps, which he compofed in the 21 ft year of his age; a poem as fublime and immortal as the mountains' which are the fubjeft of his fong. Not to interrupt thefe biographical anecdotes with a chronological detail of his poetical productions, I (hall juft mention, that, not long after his poem on the Alps, he wrote his ethic epiftles, on the Imperfection of Human Virtue, on...
Pagina 135 - England, the life and liberty of the fubject does not depend upon the arbitrary decifion of his judge, but is fecured by exprefs laws, from which no magiftrate can depart with impunity. This guarded precifion, it is true, may occafionally, perhaps, be attended with fome inconveniences; but they are overbalanced by advantages of fo much greater weight as to be fcarcely perceptible in the fcales of juftice. I do not mean, however, to throw any imputation upon the officers of criminal jurifdiction in...
Pagina 18 - London in 1749, and in 1754 chofen one of the eight foreign members in the Academy of Sciences at Paris. In 1739, he was appointed phyfician to George the Second, and king's counfellor in 1740. In 1749, the emperor Francis conferred on him letters of nobility at the requeft of George the Second ; and about the fame time the king, in a vifit which he paid to the univerfity, diftinguimed Haller with particular marks of approbation.
Pagina 68 - In this refpeft the clergy, no lefs wifely, than fuitably to the fpirit, as well as the letter, of the Chriftian revelation, have renounced the principles of their great patriarch, Calvin: for, although they ftill hold hold that able reformer in high veneration ; yet they know how to diftinguiih his virtues from his defefts, and to admire the one without being blindly partial to the other.
Pagina 161 - ... remain open during the whole year ; whereas the latter are clofed at the end of September. In the fummer dwellings is found dung in great abundance, but no hay ; on the contrary, the winter habitations never contain any dung, but much hay. Near the latter is perceived a more confiderable quantity of earth, which annually increafes according to the fize of the dwelling, and the augmentation of the family. In the formation of their dwellings they fcoop out the earth with great dexterity and expedition:...
Pagina 33 - ... disorder, than to cure it radically. In his latter years he accustomed himself to opium, which, Zimmerman informs us, he took in so large a dose as eight grains, and which operated as a temporary palliative, but increased his natural impatience. This restlessness of temper, which occasionally disturbed his tranquillity even in his younger days, and in the full flow of his health and spirits, was considerably heightened by the advances of age, and the disorders which shattered his frame toward...