On the beauties, harmonies and sublimities of nature: with remarks on the laws, customs, manners, and opinions of various nations, 2. köide1837 |
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... island be visible . It is a strange feel- ing , to walk about on a living island , where all below is actively at work . And to what corner of the earth can we penetrate , where human beings are not already to be found ? In the remotest ...
... island be visible . It is a strange feel- ing , to walk about on a living island , where all below is actively at work . And to what corner of the earth can we penetrate , where human beings are not already to be found ? In the remotest ...
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... island , rendered almost as barren as a rock , was reduced to great privation and distress . In the midst of this devastation , palm - trees flourished in the sand ; indigo plants were healthy ; and the sugar maple in perfect verdure ...
... island , rendered almost as barren as a rock , was reduced to great privation and distress . In the midst of this devastation , palm - trees flourished in the sand ; indigo plants were healthy ; and the sugar maple in perfect verdure ...
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... island to the Isle of France , in his return from a voyage round the world ; whence , in 1788 , it was introduced to Cayenne and Martinico . Lavayse seems to suppose , that it might be cultivated in Europe , where the grounds could be ...
... island to the Isle of France , in his return from a voyage round the world ; whence , in 1788 , it was introduced to Cayenne and Martinico . Lavayse seems to suppose , that it might be cultivated in Europe , where the grounds could be ...
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... Island . Cook had previously discovered it ; and it is peculiarly valuable , since it unites the useful qualities of both flax and hemp . с FRANCE furnished England with almost all her apples and pears , if not with vines . In the reign ...
... Island . Cook had previously discovered it ; and it is peculiarly valuable , since it unites the useful qualities of both flax and hemp . с FRANCE furnished England with almost all her apples and pears , if not with vines . In the reign ...
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... Islands , he conceived the plan of introducing some of the products of the Tropics into Corsica ; the soil and climate ... Island , the ambition of Paoli , and its possession by England - induced him to sell his estate ; and it passing ...
... Islands , he conceived the plan of introducing some of the products of the Tropics into Corsica ; the soil and climate ... Island , the ambition of Paoli , and its possession by England - induced him to sell his estate ; and it passing ...
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Page 426 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 392 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 425 - But neither breath of morn when she ascends With charm of earliest birds ; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild ; nor silent night With this her solemn bird ; nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
Page 407 - How sleep the brave, who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest ? When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Page 57 - In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Page 267 - Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old ? Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall I give my first born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul...
Page 128 - Est in secessu longo locus : insula portum Efficit objectu laterum, quibus omnis ab alto Frangitur inque sinus scindit sese unda reductos.
Page 351 - From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well : For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power and pelf, The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored and unsung.
Page 382 - Ye winds that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more.
Page 207 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :