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A\r\nPrefatory introduction to a work like this, can hope little better usage\r\nfrom the Public than they had; it proclaims the approach of what has\r\noften passed by before, adorned most certainly with greater splendour,\r\nperhaps conducted too with greater regularity and skill: Yet will I not\r\ndespair of giving at least a momentary amusement to my countrymen in\r\ngeneral, while their entertainment shall serve as a vehicle for\r\nconveying expressions of particular kindness to those foreign\r\nindividuals, whose tenderness softened the sorrows of absence, and who\r\neagerly endeavoured by unmerited attentions to supply the loss of their\r\ncompany on whom nature and habit had given me stronger claims.\nThat I should make some reflections, or write down some observations, in\r\nthe course of a long journey, is not strange; that I should present them\r\nbefore the Public is I hope not too daring: the presumption grew up out\r\nof their acknowledged favour, and if too kind culture has encouraged a\r\ncoarse plant till it runs to seed, a little coldness from the same\r\nquarter will soon prove sufficient to kill it. The flattering partiality\r\nof private partisans sometimes induces authors to venture forth, and\r\nstand a public decision; but it is often found to betray them too; not\r\nto be tossed by waves of perpetual contention, but rather to sink in the\r\nsilence of total neglect. What wonder! He who swims in oil must be\r\nbuoyant indeed, if he escapes falling certainly, though gently, to the\r\nbottom; while he who commits his safety to the bosom of the\r\nwide-embracing ocean, is sure to be strongly supported, or at worst\r\nthrown upon the shore.\nOn this principle it has been still my study to obtain from a humane and\r\ngenerous Public that shelter their protection best affords from the\r\npoisoned arrows of private malignity; for though it is not difficult to\r\ndespise the attempts of petty malice, I will not say with the\r\nPhilosopher, that I mean to build a monument to my fame with the stones\r\nthrown at me to break my bones; nor yet pretend to the art of Swift's\r\nGerman Wonder-doer, who promised to make them fall about his head like\r\nso many pillows. Ink, as it resembles Styx in its colour, should\r\nresemble it a little in its operation too; whoever has been once dipt\r\nshould become invulnerable: But it is not so; the irritability of\r\nauthors has long been enrolled among the comforts of ill-nature, and the\r\ntriumphs of stupidity; such let it long remain! Let me at least take\r\ncare in the worst storms that may arise in public or in private life, to\r\nsay with Lear,\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 16445 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Piozzi, Hester Lynch \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Aug 5, 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Piozzi, Hester Lynch,1741-1821 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43217346658461,"sku":"gb-16445-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/16445.jpg?v=1671425741"},{"product_id":"politica-estera-memorie-e-documenti-gb-41821","title":"Politica estera: memorie e documenti","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePolitica estera: memorie e documenti\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nIl primo Capitolo di questo libro attende la luce sin dalla fine\r\ndel 1886. In quell'anno Francesco Crispi lo compose e divis di\r\npubblicarlo affinch il paese, conoscendo esattamente quanto era\r\nstato preparato al 1877, potesse meglio giudicare gli errori dappoi\r\ncommessi, e ripararli. Correvano gli ultimi mesi del governo di\r\nAgostino Depretis; l'Italia appariva malcontenta di una politica\r\nestera debole e incerta; la pubblicazione dell'on. Crispi non era\r\ninopportuna.\r\n\n\r\nAvvertito, l'on. Depretis tent di distogliere il suo antico collega\r\nda un divisamento che personalmente doveva dispiacergli;\r\nmise innanzi ragioni di pubblico interesse, fece appello al patriottismo,\r\nobiett che la pubblicazione non potesse esser fatta senza il\r\nconsentimento del Governo.\r\n\n\nIo non ho bisogno dell'approvazione di alcuno per la pubblicazione\r\ndi tutti quegli atti politici ai quali ho preso parte. Nego\r\nin conseguenza la necessit di un consenso al quale tu non hai\r\ndiritto.... Nei governi parlamentari nulla vi pu essere di segreto,\r\nperch sono governi di responsabilit. 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After\r\na short stay at Cannes and three months in Mentone, with\r\nmarked improvement, we made a tour of four months in\r\nItaly, and then passing the remainder of the summer of 1877\r\nin Switzerland, and the autumn chiefly in Biarritz and Pau,\r\nwe spent a second winter in the Riviera, principally in\r\nMentone, returning to England vi Turin in May 1878.\nWe had visited so many places, and seen so much while\r\nthus travelling during our first year, that it occurred to me,\r\nduring our second sojourn at Mentone, to write out some\r\nnotes of what had come within our knowledge which might\r\nprove both useful and interesting to others, and particularly\r\nto those who desired to winter in the Riviera. The field,\r\nhowever, was large, and to bring observation into reasonable\r\ncompass I could only present general viewsindications\r\nmerelyof what we had seen; and, indeed, more than this\r\nI could scarcely have ventured upon, because I had not\r\ntravelled with any idea of writing on the subject, and the\r\nnotes I had kept were therefore scanty, although sufficient,\r\nwith a vivid recollection of so much calculated to impress,[xii]\r\nto enable me to describe, as far as description is perhaps\r\ndesirable. 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Non gi ch'egli\r\nprovasse pentimento n alcuna vergogna delle opinioni\r\nche, secondo coscienza, aveva in quelli espresse o propugnate:\r\nma pareva a lui, che quegli articoli ed opuscoli,\r\nla maggior parte improvvisati nei tumultuosi tempi che\r\ncorsero in ispecie dal 1847 al 49, non fossero per la lor\r\nforma tali, di che la comune patria potesse in qualche\r\nmodo onorarsi, n procederne verace incremento alla\r\nfama che il dettatore di essi erasi con le altre sue produzioni\r\nmeritata. 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