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Change of Air, Or, the Philosophy of Travelling; Autumnal Excursions Through France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and Belgium
Change of Air Or the Philosophy of Travelling Autumnal Excursions Through France Switzerland Italy Germany and Belgium Author:James Johnson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1831 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: ( 31 ) CHANGE OF AIR, AUTUMNAL EXCURSION, THE STEAMER. On many a former occasion, the receding cliffs of old England have called forth -- " The voice of sorrow from the bursting heart." When the vessel's prow turned to foreign and unhealthy climes -- when the " dangers of the sea and the violence of the enemy," were absorbed in the wretchedness of parting from all that human nature holds dear -- when the stern mandates of War compelled the youth of Britain to spend the prime of life in traversing the ocean or campaigning on hostile shores -- then the separation from friends and native home excited feelings which, in periods of peace, cannot be recognized or appreciated. But it is a wise ordination of Nature that Time and the frequent repetition of impressions the most dolorous, render the sensations thereby excited less and less vivid, till at length they are scarcely perceptible. We may remember these impressions and sensations, but we cannot rccal them -- that is, we cannot renew them. There is, per- haps, nearly as much pleasure in the mellowed recollection of these triste emotions, after a lapse of years, as there was pain on their first occurrence. The remembrance of storms weathered, dangers escaped, battles survived, misfortunes overcome, excites a pleasing, though somewhat melancholy, musing in the mind, which those who have not experienced human vicissitudes can never know. With the assurance of this fact, Ulysses cheered his terrified and desponding countrymen and shipmates, in the dreadful hurricane off the coast of Carthage : -- -- -- -- -- Forsan et ha'c olim meminisse juvabit. Th...« less