The London Quarterly Review, Volume 19Theodore Foster, 1819 |
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... traveller can again speak of the delicious shades and stately trees of Ant- werp ! Carnot , in preparing to defend the place , laid what were then its beautiful environs as bare as a desert . The remark which he makes upon the view from ...
... traveller can again speak of the delicious shades and stately trees of Ant- werp ! Carnot , in preparing to defend the place , laid what were then its beautiful environs as bare as a desert . The remark which he makes upon the view from ...
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... traveller not to go on purpose to the Borromean islands unless he had a great deal of leisure : for he says , there is nothing very rare or extraordinary in them . A man ( who never saw but very ordinary things of that nature 10 ...
... traveller not to go on purpose to the Borromean islands unless he had a great deal of leisure : for he says , there is nothing very rare or extraordinary in them . A man ( who never saw but very ordinary things of that nature 10 ...
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... travellers in so inhospitable a place . As we ascended we entered a very thick , solid , and dark body of clowds , wch loook'd like rocks at a little distance , which lasted neare a mile in going up ; they were dry misty vapours ...
... travellers in so inhospitable a place . As we ascended we entered a very thick , solid , and dark body of clowds , wch loook'd like rocks at a little distance , which lasted neare a mile in going up ; they were dry misty vapours ...
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... traveller must sometimes have experienced , in an hour of exhaustion , when he feels the want of that comfort and that perfect rest , one of which can only be enjoyed in his own country , and the other in his own house . But the ...
... traveller must sometimes have experienced , in an hour of exhaustion , when he feels the want of that comfort and that perfect rest , one of which can only be enjoyed in his own country , and the other in his own house . But the ...
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... traveller can ever have beheld it without astonishment . Evelyn had seen it in both places , and yet repeats the common story , which had it been fact instead of fable , would have been less remarkable than the actual and as yet ...
... traveller can ever have beheld it without astonishment . Evelyn had seen it in both places , and yet repeats the common story , which had it been fact instead of fable , would have been less remarkable than the actual and as yet ...
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Page 276 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
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Page 276 - ... and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth : and it was so. And God made the two great lights ; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night : he made the stars also.
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Page 267 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled : at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.