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... represented so as to enable me to appreciate what I now anticipate . Some persons are content if they have a well - written history or book of travels , over which they can go into ecstasies without the trouble of locomotion , and at ...
... represented so as to enable me to appreciate what I now anticipate . Some persons are content if they have a well - written history or book of travels , over which they can go into ecstasies without the trouble of locomotion , and at ...
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... represented between the sea and the ship . But our danger was too great for such thoughts . The fact of our being near the banks of Newfoundland , and the region of floating icebergs , was too strongly impressed upon our minds , to ...
... represented between the sea and the ship . But our danger was too great for such thoughts . The fact of our being near the banks of Newfoundland , and the region of floating icebergs , was too strongly impressed upon our minds , to ...
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... represented to be twelve , fourteen , and fifteen centuries old . A copy of the first authorized edition of the Bible , and the first ever printed , was also exhibited , besides many other things equally rare and curious . The ...
... represented to be twelve , fourteen , and fifteen centuries old . A copy of the first authorized edition of the Bible , and the first ever printed , was also exhibited , besides many other things equally rare and curious . The ...
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... represented , so as to prevent any confusion or mistake . This arrangement also furnishes a great facility to visitors in en- abling them to compare the articles of the different countries with the aid of the catalogue , without the ...
... represented , so as to prevent any confusion or mistake . This arrangement also furnishes a great facility to visitors in en- abling them to compare the articles of the different countries with the aid of the catalogue , without the ...
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... represented , and whose products had to be con- veyed from great distances , at a very heavy expense . Next to Eng- land and her Provinces , France seems to be most fully represented . Her apartments are arranged in the real French ...
... represented , and whose products had to be con- veyed from great distances , at a very heavy expense . Next to Eng- land and her Provinces , France seems to be most fully represented . Her apartments are arranged in the real French ...
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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.