The Travels and Adventures of James Massey

We set out next Day without taking any thing but our Gowns, and some Trifles which we thought absolutely necessary. We did not want Money, we were known, and the People of the C...

Being weary at length of staying always in the same Place, we resolv'd to make a Sail some Leagues to the Well in Hopes not only of finding out the Place where our Ship was cast...

_Lidola_ was lain down on a Bed so fragrant, that it perfum'd the whole House. Her Head-Dress was in the careless Air, her Neck bare, as was also her left Breast, her Arms at Li...

I confess, said I, that 'tis impossible to determine the exact Dimensions of the Celestial Luminaries; and all that have pretended to it have been presumptuous Impostors. The In...

I told them, however, with a real Design to alarm them, that I was not only persuaded of an eternal State of Happiness for those who did good Works, and had Faith, but that ther...

Upon this he turn'd the Discourse, and said, What Notion can you have of God, who according to you is the Sovereign Lord of the whole Universe, and can dispose of all its Parts...

I was carry'd aboard a Ship, the Captain of which had Orders to deliver me over to the Inquisitor at _Lisbon_; so that we set out that same Month for _Portugal_. I was told by t...

Mean time, I cut a grand Figure but yet without running into Extravagance: He was surpriz'd at my way of Living, mad to know what Bottom I had to support it, and made Inquiry ev...

We have a Book, I added, which tells us all this. _Moses_ assures us that God made every thing by his Word, about 6000 Years ago; and that after he had imploy'd Six Days in it,...

We spent several Years in these fine Sciences, insomuch that there were no smooth sandy Places but what were full of Geometrical Figures, especially in the Downs and upon the Sh...

The next Day in the Morning, which was the 24th of _September_, 1644, and the 11th of our Arrival, we each took a Hatchet in our Belts with a Gun, and whatsoever we thought nece...

While I was taken up with viewing, all these Curiosities, our People were busy in landing their Goods, bartering them, and taking in their Ladings of such Goods as they had Orde...

After this Manner and no other, _said my Father, interrupting him_, I conceive of the Meaning of the Word Trinity, but there is something else couch'd under it, or you would not...

After this Skirmish we doubled our Diligence or our Preservation; we were still in Dread of our conquer'd Enemy, because we apprehended that in time they would be wiser; but we...

To return therefore from this first Digression; I must say, that tho' M. _Du Pre_ was far from being a Philosopher, yet the few Hints I had from him, together with _Calvin_'s Co...

Mean time, the Surf was at the End of his Race, and we found our selves very cold, which were two pressing Motives to induce us to betake our selves to some Shelter. We descende...

That I might not go without my Reward, I told the King, that we had indeed adorn'd his Palace with a Machine, with which he had the Goodness to seem pleas'd, but that if he desi...

The Recommendation these Travels have been favour'd with from yourself and other good Judges, as a History admirably adapted both to the Entertainment and Instruction of the Rea...

One Day amongst the rest, he told us, how a young Man of a very remote Canton, being often ill us'd by his Father, who seem'd to bear a mortal Hatred to him, took the Opportunit...

We were oblig'd to be as easy as possible under our Loss, and to consider what Course to steer next; for tho' we had try'd to make to Land for above two Days, yet the Wind, whic...

About eight Months before I left _Paris_, that famous City, which is the Metropolis of the finest Kingdom in _Europe_, a Counsellor of the Parliament travelling in his Coach, in...

At last, as good Luck would have it for those wretched People, it happen'd I know not how, that a _Portuguese_ arriv'd there, who having learnt their Language, told them, that a...

N. _Negro_, Story of one who hang'd himself for fear of banging, 19. The Dissection of his Body, 20. Why _Negroes_ are black, 21. Nests of strange Birds describ'd, 44, 45. News,...