Category: Travel Writing
A Description of the Kingdom of France--The Customs, Manners, Polity, Science, Commerce, and Agriculture of the Inhabitants--Its ANCIENT form of Government,--and the NEW--Particulars concerning the Royal Family--Causes of the late Revolution--Proceedings and Decrees of the Nat...
A Description of the Kingdom of France--The Customs, Manners, Polity, Science, Commerce, and Agriculture of the Inhabitants--Its ANCIENT form of Government,--and the NEW--Partic...
2. Part 2The _Champ de Mars_ was formed into a grand amphitheatre, having at one end the military school, against which was erected a covered gallery two hundred and twenty-eight feet (F...
3. Part 3Said he, I am employed by the court of Spain on the same business, and have travelled through England, Scotland, and Ireland; and am come here to collect all the knowledge I pos...
4. Part 4Paris, the capital of France, is situated in lat. 48 deg. 50 min. north; and long. 2 deg. 10 min. east of the royal observatory at Greenwich; and is called one of the grandest a...
5. Part 5"The representatives of the people of France, constituted in national assembly, considering that ignorance, forgetfulness, or neglect of the rights of man, are the sole causes o...
6. Part 6I inquired where we should dine; and was informed that we were to have no dinner that day, unless we payed for it ourselves, although we were to be found on the way, according t...
7. Part 7I cannot expect my political sentiments will please every body, let them be ever so well founded on reason; for there are such a number of discontented mortals in the world, who...