The King of Saxony's Journey Through England and Scotland in the Year 1844Chapman and Hall, 1846 - 391 pages |
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Page 346 - Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work : but the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God : in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates ; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Page 375 - Gravel is the term applied to the water- worn fragments of rocks, when the pebbles or particles vary from the size of a pea to that of a hen's egg.
Page 323 - Be lion-mettled, proud and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are: Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him.
Page 32 - This is a feeling which cannot be entertained, and an expression which cannot be used in Germany or France, where ten or fifteen families often live together in the same large house. "The expression, however, receives a true value, when, by the mere closing of the housedoor, the family is able, to a certain extent, to cut itself off from all communication with the outward world, even in the midst of great...
Page 245 - ... covered with the •scarlet flowers of Loranthus aphyllus, from amongst which hang the long, white flowers of the Cereus. When travelling in the interior of Chili, we often bivouacked near these Cerei, and their dry woody cylinders furnished the best fuel for our fires. The wood of these plants attains a thickness of an inch or an inch and a half, and the whole cylinder is as much as 12 or 15 inches in circumference. The wood of the Cactus is applied to the most various purposes in the treeless...
Page 32 - ... it is this that gives the Englishman that proud feeling of personal independence, which is stereotyped in the phrase: " Every man's house is his castle.
Page 197 - ... most remarkable petrefactions and fossil remains— the head of an Ichthyosaurus, beautiful ammonites, etc., were exhibited in the window. We entered, and found a little shop and adjoining chamber completely filled with fossil productions of the coast. It is a piece of great fortune for the collectors when the heavy winter rains loosen and bring down large masses of the projecting coast. When such a fall takes place, the most splendid and rarest fossils are brought to light, and made accessible...
Page 32 - The expression, however, receives a true value, when, by the mere closing of the house-door, the family is able, to a certain extent, to cut itself off from all communication with the outward world, even in the midst of great cities. In English towns or villages, therefore, one always meets either with small detached houses merely suited to one family, or apparently large buildings extending to the length of half a street, sometimes adorned like palaces on the exterior, but separated by...