Life in Sweden; with Excursions in Norway and Denmark, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1853 - Scandinavia |
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... seen coming from the remote or famine - stricken districts , make one cease to wonder that a people , who so love their forest and moun- tain huts , leave them for the ungenial life of the capital where they can earn their daily bread ...
... seen coming from the remote or famine - stricken districts , make one cease to wonder that a people , who so love their forest and moun- tain huts , leave them for the ungenial life of the capital where they can earn their daily bread ...
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... a ponderous affair , taken in all its ramifi- cations - the care of farm produce , the spinning , weaving , working of all kinds , included ; together with the enormous number of creatures to be seen after LIFE IN SWEDEN . 11.
... a ponderous affair , taken in all its ramifi- cations - the care of farm produce , the spinning , weaving , working of all kinds , included ; together with the enormous number of creatures to be seen after LIFE IN SWEDEN . 11.
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Selina Bunbury. with the enormous number of creatures to be seen after . But in such a household as this , one of those most useful beings called , by the common torturing of French words into Swedish , Mamzel , ( and in its more ...
Selina Bunbury. with the enormous number of creatures to be seen after . But in such a household as this , one of those most useful beings called , by the common torturing of French words into Swedish , Mamzel , ( and in its more ...
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... seen in England or elsewhere . The most vivid summer green was mingled with the brightest , purest gold - not yellow , not brown ; nothing sickly , faded - looking was to be seen . On one tree green and gold seemed both the natural ...
... seen in England or elsewhere . The most vivid summer green was mingled with the brightest , purest gold - not yellow , not brown ; nothing sickly , faded - looking was to be seen . On one tree green and gold seemed both the natural ...
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... seen be right , that which cannot be seen may be made right also . " " You may be correct , " said my friend ; " yet I cannot but feel that our religion is too much a lifeless form . It is a part of our 32 LIFE IN SWEDEN .
... seen be right , that which cannot be seen may be made right also . " " You may be correct , " said my friend ; " yet I cannot but feel that our religion is too much a lifeless form . It is a part of our 32 LIFE IN SWEDEN .
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Page 301 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 336 - For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth; so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.