Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 7 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 7: what you’re looking at
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# Description of Page This is a running prose page (numbered 7) from what appears to be a travel narrative or guidebook. The text argues for the health and mental benefits of travel, claiming it provides "a continual change of scene" that refreshes the mind and spirits. It specifically recommends travel as a remedy for melancholy and ill-health, asserting that visiting different countries—though none perfect—allows one to extract useful knowledge and ideas from each. The author concludes by requesting indulgence for the "numerous imperfections" of the observations that follow, suggesting this prefaces a longer travel account.
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Ue? 7 quires health and chearfulnefs by.a conti; nual change of fcene,. he will daily. and hourly lay up frefh treafures in his.mind to. meliorate ‘and improve it. Confidered in this view, travelling mut be of wonderful advantage. As there-is no country which is all perfeétion, fo there is no one which does not excel in fome particulars, ‘and from which a. difcerming perfon may not extract fome good, Nor do the advantages which’ invalids derive from travelling, deferve to be pafled over in filence: To recommend-it to them, it is fufficient to fay, that it-is-an-ad- mirable fpecific againft melancholy and ill- health, thatthe mind is furnifhed witha new train Ofideas, the fpirits recruited, and the whole man becomes, as it were, . reanimated. As it is prefumed the following abies vations will never be expofed to the fevere — eye of criticifm, it is unneceffary to apolo= gize for their numerous imperfections, b ne a ee ° comicbooks.com