First Impressions of England and Its PeopleJ. Johnstone, 1847 - 411 pagina's |
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Pagina vi
... greatly less fertile field of adventure than when , according to the Anglia Metropolis for 1690 , the " weekly waggon of Richard Hamersly the carrier " formed the sole conveyance , for passengers who did not ride horses of their own ...
... greatly less fertile field of adventure than when , according to the Anglia Metropolis for 1690 , the " weekly waggon of Richard Hamersly the carrier " formed the sole conveyance , for passengers who did not ride horses of their own ...
Pagina vii
... greatly more al- terative and irresistible form than at first . And now , here , in the times of Victoria , are we scarce less decidedly enveloped in the still thickening ecclesiastical element than our ancestors of the sixteenth ...
... greatly more al- terative and irresistible form than at first . And now , here , in the times of Victoria , are we scarce less decidedly enveloped in the still thickening ecclesiastical element than our ancestors of the sixteenth ...
Pagina viii
... greatly more influential . They were included in the cycle of rapid change , and annihilated at once the Protectionist policy and party of the empire . And amid the fer- menting components of English society there may be detected ele ...
... greatly more influential . They were included in the cycle of rapid change , and annihilated at once the Protectionist policy and party of the empire . And amid the fer- menting components of English society there may be detected ele ...
Pagina xii
... greatly warp my judgment nor swallow up my love for my kind ; that he may tolerate my Presbyterianism , if he find it rendering a reason for its preferences , and not very bigoted in its dislikes ; and , in short , that we may part ...
... greatly warp my judgment nor swallow up my love for my kind ; that he may tolerate my Presbyterianism , if he find it rendering a reason for its preferences , and not very bigoted in its dislikes ; and , in short , that we may part ...
Pagina xiii
... greatly more enduring than those of Man . - Cyathophyllum Fungites . -The Spotted Tubers , and what they indicated . - The Destiny of a Nation involved in the Growth of a minute Fungus ........... ..1 CHAPTER II . Weather still ...
... greatly more enduring than those of Man . - Cyathophyllum Fungites . -The Spotted Tubers , and what they indicated . - The Destiny of a Nation involved in the Growth of a minute Fungus ........... ..1 CHAPTER II . Weather still ...
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
amid ancient beauty Birmingham Carboniferous century character Church Clent Clent Hills Coal Measures coal-field Cowper creation crustacea curious dark deemed deep deposits district Droitwich Dudley earth England English Englishman Eugene Aram exceedingly exhibited existing feet fields fish formation fossils furnished genius geologic geologist greatly green ground Hagely Hales Owen half hill hollow Holoptychius human hundred labours land landscape Leasowes least less Limestone Lord Lyttleton lower marked ment miles mind nailer nature never Newport Pagnell ocean Old Red Sandstone Olney once Oolite passing peculiar picturesque poet poetry poor present prospect Puseyism Puseyite racter rises river rock rock-salt saliferous salt says scarce scene Scotch Scotland seems seen Shakspeare shells Shenstone Shenstone's side Silurian stone stratum stream surface tall thick things tion town traveller trees trilobite true upper valley vast walk walls wood
Populaire passages
Pagina 253 - First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Pagina 345 - Tis a note of enchantment ; what ails her ? She sees A mountain ascending, a vision of trees; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside.
Pagina 309 - And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
Pagina 274 - Within the twilight of their distant shades; There, lost behind a rising ground, the wood Seems sunk, and shortened to its topmost boughs. No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar; paler some.
Pagina 51 - mid th' unrustling reed, At those mirk hours the wily monster lies, And listens oft to hear the passing steed, And frequent round him rolls his sullen eyes, If chance his savage wrath may some weak wretch surprise.
Pagina 211 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Pagina 273 - So strong the zeal to immortalize himself Beats in the breast of man, that e'en a few, Few transient years, won from th' abyss abhorr'd Of blank oblivion, seem a glorious prize, And even to a clown. Now roves the eye ; And, posted on this speculative height, Exults in its command. The sheepfold here Pours out its fleecy tenants o'er the glebe.
Pagina 309 - And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein ; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Pagina 23 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart.
Pagina 116 - Her speech was the melodious voice of Love, Her song the warbling of the vernal grove ; Her eloquence was sweeter than her song, Soft as her heart, and as her reason strong; Her form each beauty of her mind express'd, Her mind was Virtue by the Graces dress'd.