Borders and Territories

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Manet van Montfrans
Rodopi, 1993 - 256 Seiten

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Seite 87 - From Paris next, coasting the realm of France, We saw the river Maine fall into Rhine, Whose banks are set with groves of fruitful vines; Then up to Naples, rich Campania, Whose buildings fair and gorgeous to the eye, The streets straight forth, and paved with finest brick; Quarter the town in four equivalents. There saw we learned Maro's...
Seite 103 - O ! sir. upon her nose, all o'er embellished with rubies, carbuncles, sapphires, declining their rich aspect to the hot breath of Spain, who sent whole armadoes of carracks to be ballast at her nose.
Seite 110 - Let Aristotle and others have their dues; but if we can make farther discoveries of truth and fitness than they, why are we envied?
Seite 110 - Those however who aspire not to guess and divine, but to discover and know; who propose not to devise mimic and fabulous worlds of their own, but to examine and dissect the nature of this very world itself; must go to facts themselves for everything.
Seite 101 - Most villanously; like a pedant that keeps a school i' the church. I have dogged him, like his murderer. He does obey every point of the letter that I dropped to betray him: he does smile his face into more lines than is in the new map with the augmentation of the Indies: you have not seen such a thing as 'tis.
Seite 135 - J'enfouis ce trésor dans mon âme immortelle, Et je l'emporte à Dieu ! Février 1841. LE RHIN ALLEMAND1 PAR BECKEH TIIADUCTION FRANÇAISE fis ne l'auront pas, le libre Rhin allemand, quoiqu'ils le demandent dans leurs cris comme des corbeaux avides; Aussi longtemps qu'il roulera paisible, portant sa robe verte ; aussi longtemps qu'une rame frappera ses flots. Ils ne l'auront pas, le. libre Rhin allemand, aussi longtemps que les cœurs s'abreuveront de son vin de feu; Aussi longtemps que les rocs...
Seite 85 - On a round ball A workeman that hath copies by, can lay An Europe, Afrique, and an Asia, And quickly make that, which was nothing, All...
Seite 102 - Captain, if you look in the maps of the 'orld, I warrant you sail find, in the comparisons between Macedon and Monmouth, that the situations, look you, is both alike. There is a river in Macedon; and there is also moreover a river at Monmouth...

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