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... attracted my attention more than the draft - horses that I see in the streets . Their size and capabilities are really wonderful ; as a general thing they are about sixteen hands high , and in proportion . They are in excel- lent order ...
... attracted my attention more than the draft - horses that I see in the streets . Their size and capabilities are really wonderful ; as a general thing they are about sixteen hands high , and in proportion . They are in excel- lent order ...
Pagina 42
... attracted my attention upon entering was a glass fountain , occupying the central place in the building . It is a very curious piece of work , showing the extent to which glass can be employed for decorative purposes , and exhibits the ...
... attracted my attention upon entering was a glass fountain , occupying the central place in the building . It is a very curious piece of work , showing the extent to which glass can be employed for decorative purposes , and exhibits the ...
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... attracted my attention upon entering the Palace was the American Eagle perched aloft in one of the most conspicuous places , holding the stars and stripes in her talons , and bearing the motto , E Pluribus Unum , in letters large enough ...
... attracted my attention upon entering the Palace was the American Eagle perched aloft in one of the most conspicuous places , holding the stars and stripes in her talons , and bearing the motto , E Pluribus Unum , in letters large enough ...
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... attracting the attention and admiration of every one that beholds it . This dome is terminated by a lantern and globe weighing about seven tons , and on the top of the whole is placed the emblem of Christian faith . Although the ...
... attracting the attention and admiration of every one that beholds it . This dome is terminated by a lantern and globe weighing about seven tons , and on the top of the whole is placed the emblem of Christian faith . Although the ...
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... attraction in which they are most interested , and which pertain to their own sphere of life ; consequently , I have found myself day after day within the walls of Westminster , attending the proceedings of the various courts , and ...
... attraction in which they are most interested , and which pertain to their own sphere of life ; consequently , I have found myself day after day within the walls of Westminster , attending the proceedings of the various courts , and ...
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A Tennessean Abroad: Or, Letters from Europe, Africa, and Asia Randal William McGavock Volledige weergave - 1854 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 319 - 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 271 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the Sun stood still, and the Moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies...
Pagina 263 - Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.
Pagina 266 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Pagina 246 - 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 245 - 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 266 - Is not the whole land before thee ? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Pagina 248 - How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Pagina 396 - RUSSIAN SHORES OF THE BLACK SEA In the Autumn of 1852. With a Voyage down the Volga and a Tour through the Country of the Don Cossacks. By LAURENCE OLIPHANT, Esq.
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.