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History of a Six Weeks' Tour quotes

5 quotes from History of a Six Weeks' Tour by Mary Shelley, each verified verbatim against the text and located in the book.

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In this city there are no hotels where you can reside as long or as short a time as you please, and we were obliged to engage apartments at an hotel for a week.
Mary Shelley, History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817), the journal, France
After remaining a week in Paris, we received a small remittance that set us free from a kind of imprisonment there which we found very irksome.
Mary Shelley, History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817), the journal, France
the distress of the inhabitants, whose houses had been burned, their cattle killed, and all their wealth destroyed, has given a sting to my detestation of war, which none can feel who have not travelled through a country pillaged and wasted by this plague, which, in his pride, man inflicts upon his fellow.
Mary Shelley, History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817), the journal, France
memory, taking all the dark shades from the picture, presents this part of the Rhine to my remembrance as the loveliest paradise on earth.
Mary Shelley, History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817), the journal, Germany
Nothing can be more unpresuming than this little volume.
History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817), Preface

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