Pictorial Geography of the World: Comprising a System of Universal Geography, Popular and Scientific ... and Illustrated by More Than One Thousand Engravings ... with a Copious Index Answering the Purpose of a Gazeteer, Band 2C.D. Strong, 1840 |
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... Chinese have cultivated some branches of art for many thousand years . Europe not only manufactures its own raw produce ... china , in Germany ; earthen - ware , in England and France ; glass , in Bohemia and England ; hardwares , in ...
... Chinese have cultivated some branches of art for many thousand years . Europe not only manufactures its own raw produce ... china , in Germany ; earthen - ware , in England and France ; glass , in Bohemia and England ; hardwares , in ...
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... China 25,000,000 22,000,00 20,000,000 Holland Italy , & c . Brazil 12,000,000 15,000,000 12,000,000 Principal Articles Exported . Shipping of the United Kingdom in 1837 . Cottons and Cotton Yarn $ 96,000,000 Woolens 22,000,000 Vessels ...
... China 25,000,000 22,000,00 20,000,000 Holland Italy , & c . Brazil 12,000,000 15,000,000 12,000,000 Principal Articles Exported . Shipping of the United Kingdom in 1837 . Cottons and Cotton Yarn $ 96,000,000 Woolens 22,000,000 Vessels ...
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... china- The stocking manufactures of Nottingham ; the woolen of Leicestershire ; the pottery of Staffordshire ; the hardware of Birmingham ; the ribands of Coventry ; the carpeting of Kidderminster ; the broadcloth of Stroud . Flannels ...
... china- The stocking manufactures of Nottingham ; the woolen of Leicestershire ; the pottery of Staffordshire ; the hardware of Birmingham ; the ribands of Coventry ; the carpeting of Kidderminster ; the broadcloth of Stroud . Flannels ...
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... Chinese , the Saracenic , the Egyptian , and various other styles of building for which art has no name , are found in England . The English Farm - House . convenience of an English- man's house is unrivalled ; everything is perfect in ...
... Chinese , the Saracenic , the Egyptian , and various other styles of building for which art has no name , are found in England . The English Farm - House . convenience of an English- man's house is unrivalled ; everything is perfect in ...
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... China , this offence is a sufficient reason for divorce . In fact , there is but too much resem- blance in spirit , if not in letter , between parts of the English law and the code of China . In England , a monarch would be at once ...
... China , this offence is a sufficient reason for divorce . In fact , there is but too much resem- blance in spirit , if not in letter , between parts of the English law and the code of China . In England , a monarch would be at once ...
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Seite 655 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Seite 726 - Thus every good his native wilds impart Imprints the patriot passion on his heart ; And e'en those ills that round his mansion rise Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms ; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more.
Seite 668 - Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command, A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill, A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man.
Seite 846 - I might sleep there without apprehension) called to the female part of her family, who had stood gazing on me all the while in fixed astonishment, to resume their task of spinning cotton; in which they continued to employ themselves great part of the night.
Seite 524 - ... that restores him to health ; on the ermine which decorates the judge and the rope which hangs the criminal ; on the poor man's salt and the rich man's spice ; on the brass nails of the coffin and the ribands of the bride...
Seite 950 - I went on in the procession, close by the tower of Moloch ; which, as it was drawn with difficulty, " grated on its many wheels harsh thunder.* After a few minutes it stopped; and now the worship of the God began. — A high priest mounted the car in front of the idol, and pronounced his obscene stanzas in the ears of the people; who responded at intervals in the same strain. ' These ' songs,' said lie, ' are the delight of the God. His ' car can only move when he is pleased with the ' song.'—...
Seite 950 - The walls and gates are covered with indecent emblems, in massive and durable sculpture. I have also visited the sand plains by the sea, in some places whitened with the bones of the pilgrims ; and another place, a little way out of the town, called by the English the Golgotha, where the dead bodies are usually cast forth, and where dogs and vultures are ever seen...
Seite 840 - I rode still onwards, and on approaching a spot less thickly planted, was not a little surprised to see in front of me a body of several thousand cavalry drawn up in line, and extending right and left quite as far as I could see ; and, checking my horse, I awaited the arrival of my party, under the shade of a wide-spreading acacia.
Seite 950 - After the tower had proceeded some way, a pilgrim announced that he was ready to offer himself a sacrifice to the idol. He laid himself down in the road before the tower as it was moving along, lying on his face, with his arms stretched forward.
Seite 846 - Trifling as this recital may appear to the reader, to a person in my situation the circumstance was affecting in the highest degree. I was oppressed by such unexpected kindness, and sleep fled from my eyes. In the morning I presented my compassionate landlady with two of the four brass buttons which remained on my waistcoat — the only recompense I could make her.