【英文读物】Giphantia
44页1、【英文读物】GiphantiaUpon your hearing the other day Giphantia much praised by some friends, and those no ill judges, you expressed a desire to see it in English, as you had not, you said, French enough to read the original. I immediately resolved to gratify your desire, and that very day sat about the translation.It is now finished: and, as my hand is not very legible, I take the liberty to address it to you in print with this Epistle Dedicatory; which, as neither you, nor the Author, want any encomi
2、ums, nor the Translator any excuses, I shall cut short, and beg leave to subscribe myself with great respect and sincerity,Madam,Your most obedientand most humble servant,Feb. 5,1761.The Translator.GIPHANTIA. PART THE FIRST. 1 Introduction. No man ever had a stronger inclination for travelling than myself. I considerd the whole earth as my country, and all mankind as my brethren, and therefore thought it incumbent upon me to travel thro the earth and visit my brethren. I have walkd over the ruin
3、s of the antient world, have viewd the monuments of modern pride, and, at the sight of all-devouring time, have wept 2over both. I have often found great folly among the nations that pass for the most civilizd, and sometimes as great wisdom among those that are counted the most savage. I have seen small states supported by virtue, and mighty empires shaken by vice, whilst a mistaken policy has been employd to inrich the subjects, without any endeavours to render them virtuous.After having gone o
4、ver the whole world and visited all the inhabitants, I find it does not answer the pains I have taken. I have just been reviewing my memoirs concerning the several nations, their prejudices, their customs and manners, their politicks, their laws, their religion, their history; and I have thrown them all into the fire. It grieves me to record such a monstrous mixture of humanity 3and barbarousness, of grandeur and meanness, of reason and folly.The small part, I have preservd, is what I am now pub
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