Misson, François Maximilien; Goodwin, Timothy [Bearb.]; Wotton, Matthew [Bearb.]; Manship, Samuel [Bearb.]; Tooke, Benjamin [Bearb.]: A New Voyage to Italy: With Curious Observations On several other Countries, as Germany, Switzerland, Savoy, Geneva, Flanders, and Holland. Together, With Useful Instructions for those who shall Travel thither. Done out of French. In Two Volumes (Vol. I.) (London: Printed for T. Goodwin, at the Queen's-Head; M. Wotton, at the Three-Daggers in Fleet-street; S. Manship, at the Ship in Cornbil; and B. Took at the Middle-Temple-Gate in Fleet-street, 1699)

The Preface.
before, 1 intended only to relate what I saw,
or learn d, without engaging in a particular
and exaEi Description os the Country. I
thought sit to make this ingenuous Declara-
tion, That if any Tass ages in this Work be
sound to be inconsijlent with the (Relations
os others, I may not be accus'd of taking Tlea-
jure to cont rad id ’em; for I only give a
Jtncere and natural Account os my own
ObferVations, or of what I heard from
Tersons of unfuspeded Credit, without the
leasl Dejtgn to ossend any Man whatjo-
ever.
I hope every candid Reader will make a
DiflinElion between thofe things which I af-
sirm positively, and thofe which are usher’d
in with a ’Tis laid j tho’ even in thefe
Cafes 1 have related nothing but what is
grounded on the general Opinion, and was
never contradicted by any with whom I have
had occasion to conVerfe : For, after all,
I would not be oblig’d to warrant the Truth
of thefe common (Reports, which Very osten
prove to be common Lyes.
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