. Miscellaneous writings complete in two parts . Trojan horsewill remain for ever on record, as a great and memo-rable example. Now the Portuguese have no wallsto secure them, and a vessel of two or three hundredtons will contain a much larger body of troops thancould be concealed in that famous machine, thoughVirgil tells us (somewhat hyperbolically, I believe)that it was as big as a mountain. About seven in the evening I got into a chaise onshore, and was driven through the nastiest city inthe world, though at the same time one of the mostpopulous, to a kind of coffee-house, which is veryple
. Miscellaneous writings complete in two parts . Trojan horsewill remain for ever on record, as a great and memo-rable example. Now the Portuguese have no wallsto secure them, and a vessel of two or three hundredtons will contain a much larger body of troops thancould be concealed in that famous machine, thoughVirgil tells us (somewhat hyperbolically, I believe)that it was as big as a mountain. About seven in the evening I got into a chaise onshore, and was driven through the nastiest city inthe world, though at the same time one of the mostpopulous, to a kind of coffee-house, which is verypleasantly situated on the brow of a hill, about amile from the city, and hath a very fine prospect ofthe river Tajo from Lisbon to the sea. Here we regaled ourselves with a good supper, forwhich we were as well charged as if the bill hadbeen made on the Bath-road, between Newbury andLondon. And now we could joyfully say, Egressi optata Troes potiuntur arena. Therefore, in the words of Horace,— hie Finis chartaeque viaeque. END OF VOL. I [ 337 ]. PR3/+50 .F03 1870^ nov ad iiimi SMITH LI8RARY BYU-HAWAII 3 3300 00260
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