A Tour Through Sicily and Malta: In a Series of Letters to William Beckford, Esq. of Somerly in Suffolk

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T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806 - 387 pagina's
 

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Pagina 358 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Pagina 207 - Pretty ! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms ! The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the devil they got there.
Pagina 255 - It is a common tiiing to make choice of their nich, and to try if their body fits it, that no alterations may be necessary after they are dead ; and sometimes, by way of a voluntary penance, they accustom themselves to stand for hours in these niches.
Pagina 87 - Lives thro' all life, extends thro' all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unfpent; Breathes in our foul, informs our mortal part, As full, as...
Pagina 111 - Etna, is the first object that calls your attention. It is marked out by a circle of snow and ice, which extends on all sides to the distance of about eight miles. In the centre of this circle the great crater of the mountain rears its burning head, and the regions of intense cold and of intense heat seem for ever to be united in the same point.
Pagina 220 - What blessings thy free bounty gives, Let me not cast away ; For God is paid when man receives, To enjoy is to obey.
Pagina 368 - And this, indeed, I can readily believe : for that wonderful flexibility of voice, that runs with such rapidity and neatness through the most minute divisions, and produces almost instantaneously so great a variety of modulation, must surely depend on the very nicest tone of the fibres.
Pagina 368 - ... tone. So wonderfully minute are its contractions and dilatations, that Dr. Keil, I think, computes that in some voices its opening, not more than the tenth of an inch, is divided into upwards of twelve hundred parts, the different sound of every one of which is perceptible to an exact ear. Now what a nice...
Pagina 348 - ... situation of liberty, in a country where all courts, civil as well as criminal, are appointed by regal authority, and where all offices are conferred only by the will of the sovereign, and are revocable at his caprice. The power of the viceroy is most extensive. He has not only the command of all the military force in the kingdom, but likewise presides with unbounded authority in all the tribunals, civil as well as religious. He visits the prisons, with great pomp, twice every year, and has the...
Pagina 346 - You may judge of the fituation of liberty in a kingdom, where all courts civil and criminal are appointed by regal authority, and where all offices are conferred only by the will of the fovereign, and depend entirely .upon his caprice.

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