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Pagina 13
... look at the highlands of New - Jersey , and repaired to my state- room , where I found my trunks snugly stored away , and all the little conveniences requisite for a sea voyage . The cabin I found to be larger than usual and much better ...
... look at the highlands of New - Jersey , and repaired to my state- room , where I found my trunks snugly stored away , and all the little conveniences requisite for a sea voyage . The cabin I found to be larger than usual and much better ...
Pagina 22
... look - out . After gazing and straining our eyes in fruitless attempts for some time , one of the sailors descried Mizen Head from the mast - head , which veri- fied the woman's duck story . In a short time after this joyous news , the ...
... look - out . After gazing and straining our eyes in fruitless attempts for some time , one of the sailors descried Mizen Head from the mast - head , which veri- fied the woman's duck story . In a short time after this joyous news , the ...
Pagina 23
... looks very beautiful in the distance , although very rugged . I was strongly reminded , while looking at the many little farms inclosed by hedges and ditches , of some of the closely cultivated portions of New - England . Every spot of ...
... looks very beautiful in the distance , although very rugged . I was strongly reminded , while looking at the many little farms inclosed by hedges and ditches , of some of the closely cultivated portions of New - England . Every spot of ...
Pagina 24
... looks , and pass through the custom - house without detection . The approach to Liverpool does not come up to my ... look at the Tyre of Great Britain , view its spacious docks where flags of all nations . float gaily in the breeze ...
... looks , and pass through the custom - house without detection . The approach to Liverpool does not come up to my ... look at the Tyre of Great Britain , view its spacious docks where flags of all nations . float gaily in the breeze ...
Pagina 27
... look as sleek as a new hat . Yesterday I counted as many as thirty steam - pressed bales of cotton on one wagon , and drawn by only two horses , which would be considered a tremendous load on our turnpikes for a team of six horses ...
... look as sleek as a new hat . Yesterday I counted as many as thirty steam - pressed bales of cotton on one wagon , and drawn by only two horses , which would be considered a tremendous load on our turnpikes for a team of six horses ...
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A Tennessean Abroad: Or, Letters from Europe, Africa, and Asia Randal William McGavock Volledige weergave - 1854 |
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Pagina 253 - How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
Pagina 250 - And Samson lay till midnight, and arose at midnight, and took the doors of the gate of the city, and the two posts, and went away with them, bar and all, and put them upon his shoulders, and carried them up to the top of an hill that is before Hebron.
Pagina 249 - And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails. And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
Pagina 323 - Islands of the Blest. The mountains look on Marathon, And Marathon looks on the, sea ; And musing there an hour alone, I dreamed that Greece might still be free ; For standing on the Persians' grave, I could not deem myself a slave.
Pagina 147 - 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.
Pagina 180 - And mounts in spray the skies, and thence again Returns in an unceasing shower, which round) With its unemptied cloud of gentle rain, Is an eternal April to the ground Making it all one emerald: — how profound The gulf!
Pagina 109 - Secretary to the Royal Institution for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Scotland...
Pagina 135 - Away with these; true Wisdom's world will be Within its own creation, or in thine, Maternal Nature! for who teems like thee, Thus on the banks of thy majestic Rhine? There Harold gazes on a work divine, A blending of all beauties; streams and dells, Fruit, foliage, crag, wood, corn-field, mountain, vine, And chiefless castles breathing stern farewells From grey but leafy walls, where Ruin greenly dwells.
Pagina 271 - Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, "Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.