 | James Boswell - 1928 - 670 pages
...life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall trom the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants. "The reader will here find no regions... | |
 | Philip Dodd - 1982 - 184 pages
...Life, and to have consulted his Senses not his Imagination; He meets with no Basilisks that destroy with their Eyes, his Crocodiles devour their Prey without Tears, and his Cataracts fall from the Rock without Deafening the Neighbouring Inhabitants.20 Lobo's/rineran'o with its slower building towards... | |
 | Srinivas Aravamudan - 1999 - 444 pages
...that they should believe him, who cannot contradict him ... he meets with no Basilisks that destroy with their Eyes, his Crocodiles devour their Prey without Tears, and his Cataracts fall from the Rock without Deafening the Neighbouring Inhabitants . . . here are no Hottentots without Religion,... | |
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He appears by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles... 
