On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Occasional Remarks on the Laws, Customs, Manners, and Opinions of Various Nations, Svazek 1G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823 |
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... the Guadina and the Guadalquiver ; thus opening a ready communication be tween Madrid , Toledo , Cordova , and Seville . Tacitus , Annal . lib . i . c . 79 . II . " Where a spring rises or a river 2 Hypolito de Vinci ; -Spanish Ministry .
... the Guadina and the Guadalquiver ; thus opening a ready communication be tween Madrid , Toledo , Cordova , and Seville . Tacitus , Annal . lib . i . c . 79 . II . " Where a spring rises or a river 2 Hypolito de Vinci ; -Spanish Ministry .
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... spring rises or a river flows , " says Seneca , " there should we build altars and offer sacrifices ! " In pursuance of this idea , most nations , whether barbarous or refined , mistaking the effects of a deity for the deity itself ...
... spring rises or a river flows , " says Seneca , " there should we build altars and offer sacrifices ! " In pursuance of this idea , most nations , whether barbarous or refined , mistaking the effects of a deity for the deity itself ...
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... . Il . xxi . 3 Procopius , De Goth . lib . ii . Pallas . South . Prov . Russ . 254 . 5 June 20th , 1817 . 6 Herod . Clio . cxxxviii . whoever conveyed the water of a spring to any spot 4 The Sacredness of Rivers ; -Persian Law .
... . Il . xxi . 3 Procopius , De Goth . lib . ii . Pallas . South . Prov . Russ . 254 . 5 June 20th , 1817 . 6 Herod . Clio . cxxxviii . whoever conveyed the water of a spring to any spot 4 The Sacredness of Rivers ; -Persian Law .
Strana 5
... spring to any spot , which had not been watered before , should , beside other immu- nities , enjoy the benefit of that water even to the end of the fifth generation 1 . The custom is still observed ; and the day , on which it is first ...
... spring to any spot , which had not been watered before , should , beside other immu- nities , enjoy the benefit of that water even to the end of the fifth generation 1 . The custom is still observed ; and the day , on which it is first ...
Strana 9
... springs . The ancient Indian kings were accustomed to throw bulls and black horses into the Indus , at the time of its overflow . Many Tartar tribes , par- ticularly those that trade to Astrakhan , worship water , which is always kept ...
... springs . The ancient Indian kings were accustomed to throw bulls and black horses into the Indus , at the time of its overflow . Many Tartar tribes , par- ticularly those that trade to Astrakhan , worship water , which is always kept ...
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On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With ..., Svazek 1 Charles Bucke Úplné zobrazení - 1823 |
On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With ..., Svazek 1 Charles Bucke Úplné zobrazení - 1823 |
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Strana 55 - After laying down my pen. I took several turns in a berceau or covered walk of acacias which commands a prospect of the country, the lake and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene: the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all Nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame.
Strana 246 - But, first, whom shall we send In search of this new world? whom shall we find Sufficient? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way? or spread his airy flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings, Over the vast abrupt, ere he arrive The happy isle?
Strana 91 - So serious should my youth appear among The thoughtless throng ; So would I seem amid the young and gay More grave than they ; That in my age as cheerful I might be As the green winter of the Holly Tree.
Strana 170 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Strana 14 - The greenwood path to meet her brother: They sought him east, they sought him west, They sought him all the Forest thorough; They only saw the cloud of night, They only heard the roar of Yarrow!
Strana 287 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Strana 76 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, And it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Strana 371 - Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
Strana 55 - I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Strana 263 - Less Philomel will deign a song In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak; Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, Most musical, most melancholy!