Dunton, John (1659-1732)

A Voyage Round the World: or, a Pocket-Library, Divided into several Volumes.

London

Printed for Richard Newcome

1691

"So innocent is the Soul of Kainophilus, so like fair white Paper, wherein you may presently see the least blot or speck of dirt that happens to fall upon it."

Now to observe the difference of Men--How often might honest harmless Evander have gone to have seen the Crown without ever stealing it at this fellonious rate.--'Tis absolutely against my Nature to knock down Men at a Blow as he did--Nay, so far am I from being harden'd enough for any such Enterprize, that I'm pretty sure, as far as I can guess at my self, could the Crown and Scepter have both been swallow'd and laid close up in my very Belly instead of under my Coat, had but one Souldier of all the Guards, nay, one little Boy no bigger than a Cade-Lamb, lookt upon me, very fear wou'd have made me so far from being able to conceal the Theft, that I should certainly have voided it out into my Breeches.--So innocent is the Soul of Kainophilus, so like fair white Paper, wherein you may presently see the least blot or speck of dirt that happens to fall upon it.
(I, p. 135)

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John Dunton, A Voyage Round the World: or, a Pocket-Library, Divided into several Volumes. The First of which contains the Rare Adventures of Don Kainophilus, From his Cradle to his 15th. Year. The like Discoveries in such a Method never made by any Rambler before. The whole Work intermixt with Essays, Historical, Moral and Divine; and all other kinds of Learning. Done into English by a Lover of Travels. Recommended by the Wits of both Universities. 3 vols. (London: Printed for Richard Newcome, 1691). <Link to EEBO-TCP>

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