Sketches of the Earth and Its Inhabitants: With One Hundred Engravings, Volym 2Cummings, Hilliard & Company, 1823 |
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... supposed to be the largest in the world , exceeding in extent those of Rome , Naples , Malta , and even those of Thebes . The excavations ex- tend beneath the whole of the southern half of the city , and under a small part of the ...
... supposed to be the largest in the world , exceeding in extent those of Rome , Naples , Malta , and even those of Thebes . The excavations ex- tend beneath the whole of the southern half of the city , and under a small part of the ...
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... supposed , how- ever , had you seen our cattle and harness at starting , that we should have been two or three days at least , in per- forming the journey . The horses are taken just as they happen to be wanted , from the field , the ...
... supposed , how- ever , had you seen our cattle and harness at starting , that we should have been two or three days at least , in per- forming the journey . The horses are taken just as they happen to be wanted , from the field , the ...
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... supposed that goitres are caused by drinking snow water ; others have ascribed them to the quality of the atmosphere ; but Mr. Coxe maintains , that they are occasioned by calcareous matter , called tuf , with which the springs , in the ...
... supposed that goitres are caused by drinking snow water ; others have ascribed them to the quality of the atmosphere ; but Mr. Coxe maintains , that they are occasioned by calcareous matter , called tuf , with which the springs , in the ...
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... supposed miraculous image , which is in great repute . Saragossa is celebrated for its desperate resistance against the French , in two tremendous sieges in 1808 and 1809. Modern warfare scarcely furnishes an example of more unyielding ...
... supposed miraculous image , which is in great repute . Saragossa is celebrated for its desperate resistance against the French , in two tremendous sieges in 1808 and 1809. Modern warfare scarcely furnishes an example of more unyielding ...
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... supposed height of 2,000 feet . The liquid lava , having cleared the rim of the crater , flowed down the sides of the mountain to the distance of four miles . The air was darkened by showers of reddish ashes , blended with long ...
... supposed height of 2,000 feet . The liquid lava , having cleared the rim of the crater , flowed down the sides of the mountain to the distance of four miles . The air was darkened by showers of reddish ashes , blended with long ...
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Sida 37 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below, LXIII.
Sida 50 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Sida 50 - Though poor the peasant's hut, his feasts though small, He sees his little lot the lot of all ; Sees no contiguous palace rear its head To shame the meanness of his humble shed...
Sida 31 - Honour, that praise which real merit gains, Or e'en imaginary worth obtains, Here passes current ; paid from hand to hand, It shifts in splendid traffic round the land ; From courts to camps, to cottages it strays, And all are taught an avarice of praise ; They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem, Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.
Sida 49 - Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansions tread And force a churlish soil for scanty bread. No product here the barren hills afford But man and steel, the soldier and his sword...
Sida 31 - To kinder skies, where gentler manners reign, I turn ; and France displays her bright domain. Gay sprightly land of mirth and social ease, Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please...
Sida 132 - Ancient of days ! august Athena ! where, Where are thy men of might, thy grand in soul? Gone, — glimmering through the dream of things that were : First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and passed away, — is this the whole?
Sida 285 - Before I had learned from the note the name and business of my visitor, I was struck with the manliness of his person, the breadth of his chest, the openness of his countenance, and the inquietude of his eye.
Sida 121 - Tis Greece, but living Greece no more! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers, is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb; Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away!
Sida 122 - Yet are thy skies as blue, thy crags as wild ; Sweet are thy groves, and verdant are thy fields, Thine olive ripe as when Minerva smiled, And still his...