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... individuals in Germany have cabinets of natural curiosities , and strangers cannot pay their court better than by requesting to see them . This would be an easy piece of politeness , if the stranger were allowed to take a view and 35.
... individuals in Germany have cabinets of natural curiosities , and strangers cannot pay their court better than by requesting to see them . This would be an easy piece of politeness , if the stranger were allowed to take a view and 35.
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... better calculated for the dwelling of heavenly pensive contemplation than the Gothic ; it has a powerful tendency to fill the mind with sublime , solemn , and religious sentiments ; the antiquity of the Gothic churches contribute to ...
... better calculated for the dwelling of heavenly pensive contemplation than the Gothic ; it has a powerful tendency to fill the mind with sublime , solemn , and religious sentiments ; the antiquity of the Gothic churches contribute to ...
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... better able to support the languor of pomp and the slavery of etiquette , the eye of suspicion would have been lulled , or kept at a distance , the tongue of slander ever awed , and the gloom of formality removing all idea of pleasure ...
... better able to support the languor of pomp and the slavery of etiquette , the eye of suspicion would have been lulled , or kept at a distance , the tongue of slander ever awed , and the gloom of formality removing all idea of pleasure ...
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... better suited to the powers of their art , than even Switzerland itself . Nothing can surpass the admirable assemblage of hills , meadows , lakes , cascades , gardens , ruins , groves , and ter- races , which charm the eye as you wander ...
... better suited to the powers of their art , than even Switzerland itself . Nothing can surpass the admirable assemblage of hills , meadows , lakes , cascades , gardens , ruins , groves , and ter- races , which charm the eye as you wander ...
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... better judges than I pretend to be , to determine . THE SOUTH AND NORTH BRITON . " Do you really , in your conscience , " said an Englishman to a Scotchman , " imagine that the Forth is a finer river than the Thames ? " - " The Thames ...
... better judges than I pretend to be , to determine . THE SOUTH AND NORTH BRITON . " Do you really , in your conscience , " said an Englishman to a Scotchman , " imagine that the Forth is a finer river than the Thames ? " - " The Thames ...
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Página 230 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Página 178 - Never, never more shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Página 211 - Dans l'adversité de nos meilleurs amis, nous trouvons toujours quelque chose qui ne nous déplaît pas.
Página 99 - Monsieur, quand on travaille pour ce qu'on aime,' replied the girl. The soldier kissed her hand with a gallant and tender air. ' Allons,' continued the Marquis, addressing himself to me ; ' this girl is quite charming — her lover has the appearance of a brave fellow ; they have but three legs betwixt them, and we have four ; — if you have no objection, they shall have the carriage, and we will follow on foot to the next village, and see what can be done for these lovers.
Página 127 - ... with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her fornication; 5and on her forehead was written a name of mystery: "Babylon the great, mother of harlots and of earth's abominations." 6And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.
Página 98 - When we had driven a few miles, I perceived a genteel-looking young fellow, dressed in an old uniform. He sat under a tree on the grass, at a little distance from the road, and amused himself by playing on the violin. As we came nearer we perceived he had a wooden leg, part of which lay in fragments by his side. " ' What do you do there, soldier? ' said the Marquis. ' I am on my way home to my own village, mon officier,
Página 126 - And the Woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand, full of abominations and filthiness of her whoredom.
Página 178 - It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossne.ss.
Página 178 - ... that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone.
Página 10 - Moore brought his family from Glasgow to London ; and in the course of the next year appeared the fruits of his travels, in " A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany,