Travel and Recollections of Travel with a Chat Upon Various Subjects ...Saunders and Otley, 1857 - Počet stran: 288 |
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Strana 3
... possess the spirit of a philosopher , and be also well versed in history , literature , and not unacquainted with the fine arts , nor ignorant of the manufacturing interest - to such a traveller I should say , you start well , whatever ...
... possess the spirit of a philosopher , and be also well versed in history , literature , and not unacquainted with the fine arts , nor ignorant of the manufacturing interest - to such a traveller I should say , you start well , whatever ...
Strana 6
... possessing the ordinary beauty of the prairie or the plain . And what shall we say of the great American prairie , which unfolds to the eye of the traveller an ocean of verdant grass , ornamented with flowers of various kinds in all ...
... possessing the ordinary beauty of the prairie or the plain . And what shall we say of the great American prairie , which unfolds to the eye of the traveller an ocean of verdant grass , ornamented with flowers of various kinds in all ...
Strana 7
... possessing superior beauty to its own , creates the effect of a charming contrast similar to the dark and frowning ... possess purses sufficiently long to undertake such long voyages to this class I can offer a little advice , which ...
... possessing superior beauty to its own , creates the effect of a charming contrast similar to the dark and frowning ... possess purses sufficiently long to undertake such long voyages to this class I can offer a little advice , which ...
Strana 10
... , and profit too , must a mind so constituted possess and enjoy when sailing on the ocean , traversing the desert , wandering through the prairie , or immerged in the solemn and umbrageous recesses of the vast 10 RECOLLECTIONS OF TRAVEL .
... , and profit too , must a mind so constituted possess and enjoy when sailing on the ocean , traversing the desert , wandering through the prairie , or immerged in the solemn and umbrageous recesses of the vast 10 RECOLLECTIONS OF TRAVEL .
Strana 11
... possessing woods , plantations , and detached trees almost everywhere , still all these give but a very faint idea of an Ameri- can forest . The same remark may be applied to Europe with slight exceptions . In Norway , some- thing ...
... possessing woods , plantations , and detached trees almost everywhere , still all these give but a very faint idea of an Ameri- can forest . The same remark may be applied to Europe with slight exceptions . In Norway , some- thing ...
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Travel and Recollections of Travel with a Chat Upon Various Subjects ... John Shaw (M.D.) Úplné zobrazení - 1857 |
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acquainted afterwards agreeable Alderney America animal Arnica angustifolia Baveno beautiful beautiful plains belonging blood botany captain CHAPTER charm coast colonies colour connexion constitute contains delightful district England English Englishman especially faculties fearful fish foreign forest forgotten hills frequently Fribourg organ Geneva genius gentleman head heard heavens individual intellect kind Lago Maggiore Lago Maggiore appeared lake Lake of Geneva land Lapland legs light look Lord William Bentinck manner Martigny medicine menziesia miles mind moral mountains musical native nature never Norway Norwegian Norwegian Sun observed ocean Otley paid a visit peculiar perfectly performance perhaps phenomena plants possess present produced Ranunculus nivalis reader remark scene Scotland seen stand steamer sublime suddenly surface thing thought tion town traveller trees true valley various vegetable Vevy wonderful Zealand
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Strana 62 - More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned; and in keeping of them there is great reward.
Strana 167 - He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for naturalization of Foreigners refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither and raising the Conditions of new appropriations of Lands...
Strana 176 - ... the great contexture of this mysterious whole. These things do not make your government. Dead instruments, passive tools as they are, it is the spirit of the English communion that gives all their life and efficacy to them. It is the spirit of the English constitution which, infused through the mighty mass, pervades, feeds, unites, invigorates, vivifies, every part of the empire, even down to the minutest member.
Strana 167 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Strana 169 - ... such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this house, or in this country...
Strana 175 - ... and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood that your government may be one thing, and their privileges another; that these two things may exist without any mutual relation; the cement is gone; the cohesion is loosened; and everything hastens to decay and dissolution.
Strana 171 - Clouds, indeed, and darkness, rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities. For instance, my Lord Ba,thurst might remember all the stages of the progress. He was in 1704 of an age at least to be made to comprehend such things. He was then old enough...
Strana 168 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I would never lay down my arms — never, never, never...
Strana 166 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Strana 63 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.