The Flowers of Modern Travels: Being Elegant, Entertaining and Instructive Extracts, Selected from the Works of the Most Celebrated Travelers, Том 2Pub. for the subscribers, John H. Belcher, agent, 1816 |
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... wood , which hang over and draken the scene . The road , as it is called , passes generally by the river , but hangs , if I may use the expression , like a shelf on the mountain side , and is truly dreadful to the inhabitants of plains ...
... wood , which hang over and draken the scene . The road , as it is called , passes generally by the river , but hangs , if I may use the expression , like a shelf on the mountain side , and is truly dreadful to the inhabitants of plains ...
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... wood . The mountains on the south side finish in a py- ramidical rock of micaceous schistus , which is con- stantly tumbing into the plain , from the attacks of the frost , and the melting of the snows , the slope of the river being ...
... wood . The mountains on the south side finish in a py- ramidical rock of micaceous schistus , which is con- stantly tumbing into the plain , from the attacks of the frost , and the melting of the snows , the slope of the river being ...
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... woods here are thick , and present fine masses of shade ; the rocks large , and every out- line bold and the verdant vale that is spread far be- low at our feet , has all the features of beauty , in con- trast with the sublimity of the ...
... woods here are thick , and present fine masses of shade ; the rocks large , and every out- line bold and the verdant vale that is spread far be- low at our feet , has all the features of beauty , in con- trast with the sublimity of the ...
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... wood he pleases for fuel and repairs , in the woods assigned for that purpose . Others are let by lease at public auction for the benefit of the parish , the trees to be cut being marked ; and in general , the police of their woods is ...
... wood he pleases for fuel and repairs , in the woods assigned for that purpose . Others are let by lease at public auction for the benefit of the parish , the trees to be cut being marked ; and in general , the police of their woods is ...
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... woods and pastures let . When the principles of a government tend to despotism , and the very pictures of kings are treated with reverence , the consequence is light taxa- tion . The only effectual means of insuring a great revenue , is ...
... woods and pastures let . When the principles of a government tend to despotism , and the very pictures of kings are treated with reverence , the consequence is light taxa- tion . The only effectual means of insuring a great revenue , is ...
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Achradina Aleppo ambassador amongst amusement Andernach animals antient Antwerp appeared Arethusa arrived Austrian Netherlands Barcelona Basil Batavia beautiful called character Cherokees Chinese church colour common covered distance dress English erect eyes favour feet fire foot French frequently ground habit hand Hebrides honour horde Hottentot Houzouanas hundred huts Indians inhabitants Inverness Jacobin La Harpe labour ladies land LAPLAND least live manner ment Micon miles mind mountains Muscogulges nation nature negro neighbours never night Norway obliged observed ornaments pass perceived person plain present purple heron Pyrenees religion rendered respect rise river road Rochemelon rocks scarcely seat SECT seemed seen seldom side snow sometimes soon Spain spirit standing stone strangers supposed Surinam Syracuse taste THEOPHILANTHROPISTS thought tion town travellers trees Troglodytes Turin valley vessel whole wind wine women young
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Страница 180 - Cherokees in their dispositions and manners are grave and steady; dignified and circumspect in their deportment; rather slow and reserved in conversation; yet frank, cheerful, and humane; tenacious of the liberties and natural rights of man; secret, deliberate and determined in their councils; honest, just and liberal, and ready always to sacrifice every pleasure and gratification, even their blood, and life itself, to defend their territory and maintain their rights.
Страница 79 - HAD desired to visit the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, so long, that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally excited ; and was in the autumn of the year 1773 induced to undertake the journey, by finding in Mr.
Страница 104 - There was perhaps never any change of national manners so quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated in the Highlands, by the last conquest, and the subsequent laws. We came thither too late to see what we expected, a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated life.
Страница 278 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th
Страница 294 - The naked negro, panting at the Line, Boasts of his golden sands and palmy wine, Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave, And thanks his gods for all the good they gave. Such is the patriot's boast where'er we roam, His first, best country, ever is at home.
Страница 179 - They are, I believe, the smallest race of women yet known, seldom above five feet high, and I believe the greater number never arrive to that stature ; their hands and feet not larger than those of Europeans of nine or ten years of age : yet the men are of gigantic stature, a full size larger than Europeans ; many of them above six feet, and few under that, or five feet eight or ten inches.
Страница 98 - Length of life is distributed impartially to very different modes of life in very different climates; and the mountains have no greater examples of age and health than the Lowlands, where I...
Страница 312 - Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of 'bones; and caused me to pass by them round about ; and, behold, there were very many in the open valley ; and, lo, they were very dry. And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.
Страница 296 - ... years ! Kings had attempted this discovery at the head of armies, and each expedition was distinguished from the last only by the difference of the numbers which had perished, and agreed alone in the disappointment which had uniformly and without exception followed them all.
Страница 201 - Knowing by instinct that the person they intend to attack is in a sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very small indeed that the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the wound, which is consequently not painful; yet through this orifice he continues to suck the blood, until he is obliged to disgorge.