A Tennessean Abroad: Or, Letters from Europe, Africa, and AsiaRedfield, 1854 - 398 páginas |
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... Thousands are every year availing them- selves of this pleasantest method of gaining correct ideas of the men and manners of the time , and visiting for themselves the classic spots which have for so many ages inspired the soul of the ...
... Thousands are every year availing them- selves of this pleasantest method of gaining correct ideas of the men and manners of the time , and visiting for themselves the classic spots which have for so many ages inspired the soul of the ...
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... thousand tons were admirable , and the attendance without a fault . In crossing the Atlantic , I would advise all travellers who prefer real comfort and quietude , and have the time , by all means to take a packet - ship in preference ...
... thousand tons were admirable , and the attendance without a fault . In crossing the Atlantic , I would advise all travellers who prefer real comfort and quietude , and have the time , by all means to take a packet - ship in preference ...
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... thousand porpoises and one or two whales , indicating , as the sailors say , a high wind . About three o'clock it seemed as if the spirits of the mighty sea were awakened from their dreams- : " He that has sailed upon the dark blue sea ...
... thousand porpoises and one or two whales , indicating , as the sailors say , a high wind . About three o'clock it seemed as if the spirits of the mighty sea were awakened from their dreams- : " He that has sailed upon the dark blue sea ...
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... thousand persons had been interred within this small place , which seems almost incredible . The hotels here are ... thousand acres , and made at the expense of the corporation of Birkenhead , which contains about thirty thousand ...
... thousand persons had been interred within this small place , which seems almost incredible . The hotels here are ... thousand acres , and made at the expense of the corporation of Birkenhead , which contains about thirty thousand ...
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... thousand and one chimneys reaching almost to the clouds , and enveloping the whole country round about with coal- smoke , giving the city an old and dingy appearance , and rendering it next to an impossibility for the ladies to keep ...
... thousand and one chimneys reaching almost to the clouds , and enveloping the whole country round about with coal- smoke , giving the city an old and dingy appearance , and rendering it next to an impossibility for the ladies to keep ...
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A Tennessean Abroad, Or Letters from Europe, Africa, and Asia (Classic Reprint) Randal William Macgavock Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
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Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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!
Página 109 - Secretary to the Royal Institution for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Scotland...
Página 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.
Página 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.