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4 PRELIMINARY DISCOURSE.
therefore, be considered as an appropriate
introduction to an account of Italy, to
point out to the reader such branches of
Information as are either indispensable or
highly advantageous in an excursion to that
country; after which I mean to add a few
reflections and cautions, with a view either
to remove prejudices, or to prevent incon-
veniencies.
CLASSICAL KNOWLEDGE.
I. As these pages are addressed solely
to persons of a liberal education, it is al-
most needless to recommend the Latin
Poets and Historians. Virgil and Horace,
Cicero and Livy, ought to be the insepa-
rable companions of all travellers; they
m’ a humilie; j’ai vu tant de choses que j’ignorois, et que
j’ignore encore, qu’il m’a paru fou de se savoir gre de
quelques connoissances superficielles.-—Lettre xxi. Yet
the author of Anacharsis was one of the most learned
and judicious antiquaries in France.
therefore, be considered as an appropriate
introduction to an account of Italy, to
point out to the reader such branches of
Information as are either indispensable or
highly advantageous in an excursion to that
country; after which I mean to add a few
reflections and cautions, with a view either
to remove prejudices, or to prevent incon-
veniencies.
CLASSICAL KNOWLEDGE.
I. As these pages are addressed solely
to persons of a liberal education, it is al-
most needless to recommend the Latin
Poets and Historians. Virgil and Horace,
Cicero and Livy, ought to be the insepa-
rable companions of all travellers; they
m’ a humilie; j’ai vu tant de choses que j’ignorois, et que
j’ignore encore, qu’il m’a paru fou de se savoir gre de
quelques connoissances superficielles.-—Lettre xxi. Yet
the author of Anacharsis was one of the most learned
and judicious antiquaries in France.