Life in Sweden; with Excursions in Norway and Denmark, Volume 2Hurst and Blackett, 1853 - Scandinavia |
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... things . Now most of them will go off to their homes in Dalarne ; or , as we foolishly call the province , Dalecarlia . Some will stay to pick up a hardly - gained and precarious existence in Stock- holm . This is not thought so well ...
... things . Now most of them will go off to their homes in Dalarne ; or , as we foolishly call the province , Dalecarlia . Some will stay to pick up a hardly - gained and precarious existence in Stock- holm . This is not thought so well ...
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... thing but what I want to do , and desires me to have everything but what I wish her to give me ; who contends it is ridiculous to think I should require a carpet under my feet , and asserts it is impossible I can do without a muff for ...
... thing but what I want to do , and desires me to have everything but what I wish her to give me ; who contends it is ridiculous to think I should require a carpet under my feet , and asserts it is impossible I can do without a muff for ...
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... thing as that of a well - educated and careful English one . The fact is that there is , in general , a high opinion entertained here of female education in England ; and the good lady think- ing that , by taking from the merits of ...
... thing as that of a well - educated and careful English one . The fact is that there is , in general , a high opinion entertained here of female education in England ; and the good lady think- ing that , by taking from the merits of ...
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... things ; vegetables , such as spinach , salad , & c . , are dressed with it . Meat is horribly bad , and but little used . The art of feeding and fattening cattle , by any artificial means , appears unknown to Sweden ; and the look of ...
... things ; vegetables , such as spinach , salad , & c . , are dressed with it . Meat is horribly bad , and but little used . The art of feeding and fattening cattle , by any artificial means , appears unknown to Sweden ; and the look of ...
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... love of pleasure pervades all classes here ; and what is singular is that it seems the same sort of thing in all ; the channels in which it flows are VOL . II . с not so opposite as in London . Country excursions , LIFE IN SWEDEN . 17.
... love of pleasure pervades all classes here ; and what is singular is that it seems the same sort of thing in all ; the channels in which it flows are VOL . II . с not so opposite as in London . Country excursions , LIFE IN SWEDEN . 17.
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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.