Visit to Northern Europe: Or, Sketches Descriptive, Historical, Political and Moral, of Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, and the Free Cities of Hamburg and Lubeck, Containing Notices of the Manners and Customs, Commerce ... Arts and Sciences ... and Religion, of Those Countries and Cities, Volym 1J.S. Taylor & Company, 1842 |
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... whole continent of Europe , and he will , in that work , enter into all the details connected with that subject . With these remarks the present work is commended by the author to the kind regards of his friends and of the public . New ...
... whole continent of Europe , and he will , in that work , enter into all the details connected with that subject . With these remarks the present work is commended by the author to the kind regards of his friends and of the public . New ...
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... whole , or even the half of the entire window . This manner of making windows is very differ- ent from that which prevails with us ; but it is that which one finds throughout all the northern countries of Europe -indeed we may say ...
... whole , or even the half of the entire window . This manner of making windows is very differ- ent from that which prevails with us ; but it is that which one finds throughout all the northern countries of Europe -indeed we may say ...
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... whole appearance of these fortifications , even in their comparatively dilapidated state , indicates that they must , when in their perfect condition , have been uncommonly strong . In fact , they were capable of resisting almost any ...
... whole appearance of these fortifications , even in their comparatively dilapidated state , indicates that they must , when in their perfect condition , have been uncommonly strong . In fact , they were capable of resisting almost any ...
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... whole capital was in fact a public loan , the funds of the bank being made use of by the government . At first , the amounts deposited in this bank were not with- drawn , but remained to the credit of the depositor , and this credit ...
... whole capital was in fact a public loan , the funds of the bank being made use of by the government . At first , the amounts deposited in this bank were not with- drawn , but remained to the credit of the depositor , and this credit ...
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... whole body of such citizens as have a right to vote for municipal officers . They receive no salary , and are sworn never to reveal the amount which the Bank has in its vaults , nor how much any individual has in deposit . When a ...
... whole body of such citizens as have a right to vote for municipal officers . They receive no salary , and are sworn never to reveal the amount which the Bank has in its vaults , nor how much any individual has in deposit . When a ...
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Visit to Northern Europe: Or, Sketches Descriptive, Historical ..., Volym 1 Robert Baird Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1842 |
Visit to Northern Europe: Or, Sketches Descriptive, Historical ..., Volym 1 Robert Baird Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1842 |
Visit to Northern Europe: Or, Sketches Descriptive, Historical ..., Volym 1 Robert Baird Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1842 |
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Sida 273 - In fight ! O North Sea, VESSEL'S thunders light Thy murky sky ! His foemen shrink with strange affright, For death and terror round him fight : Sad Gothland hears the bolts that light Thy murky sky. He gleams proud Denmark's shaft of war : The foe must own his brighter star ; They fly ! Thou road for Danes to power and praise, Dark — heaving wave ! Receive my friend, by valour's rays Led through thy wild and boisterous ways ! Guide the bold Youth to power and praise, Dark — heaving wave ! And...
Sida 330 - Denmark in 1692, thirty-two years after this singular transaction, makes the curious observation — ' that in the Roman Catholic religion there is a resisting principle to absolute civil power, from the division of authority with the head of the Church at Rome ; but in the north, the Lutheran church is entirely subservient to the civil power, and the whole of (he northern people of Protestant countries, have lost tJieir liberties ever since they changed their religion for a better.
Sida 210 - ... as if they lay on dry land. This harbour is capacious enough to hold five hundred sail, where neither wind nor enemies can do them the least mischief. The road without is very good and safe ; being fenced from the sea by a large sandbank, on the points of which float always a couple of buoys to direct all ships that come in or go out. Here are no tides to fear; but always a sufficient depth of water: sometimes, indeed, according as the winds blow in or out of the *• ' • The eiiter of our...
Sida 203 - Mid smoke and spray ; His fierce artillery flash' d so fast, That Swedish wrecks were round him cast, And lost each hostile stern and mast, Mid smoke and spray. Fly, Sweden, fly ! nor hope to win Where Christian dauntless mingles in The fray ! NILS YULE beheld the tempest grow ; " The day is right !" Aloft he bade the red flag glow, And shot for shot he dealt the foe.
Sida 330 - ... the North, the Lutheran church is entirely subservient to the civil power, and the whole of the Northern people of Protestant countries, have lost their liberties ever since they changed their religion for a better.' .... 'The blind obedience which is destructive of natural liberty, is...