First Impressions of England and Its PeopleJ. Johnstone, 1847 - 411 Seiten |
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... state of so- ciety , there must of necessity be a good deal to observe : the travel- may have few incidents to relate , and yet many appearances to ler describe . He finds himself in the circumstances of the TO THE READER . VII.
... state of so- ciety , there must of necessity be a good deal to observe : the travel- may have few incidents to relate , and yet many appearances to ler describe . He finds himself in the circumstances of the TO THE READER . VII.
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... Appearance of the Village . - Problem fur- nished by the Salt Deposits of England ; various Theories . - Rock- salt deemed by some a Volcanic Product ; by others the Depo- sition of an overcharged Sea ; by yet others the Produce of vast ...
... Appearance of the Village . - Problem fur- nished by the Salt Deposits of England ; various Theories . - Rock- salt deemed by some a Volcanic Product ; by others the Depo- sition of an overcharged Sea ; by yet others the Produce of vast ...
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... Appearance.- " The Immortal Shakspeare born in this house . " - Description of the In- terior . - The Walls and Ceiling covered with Names . - Albums.- Shakspeare , Scott , Dickens ; greatly different in their Intellectual Stature , but ...
... Appearance.- " The Immortal Shakspeare born in this house . " - Description of the In- terior . - The Walls and Ceiling covered with Names . - Albums.- Shakspeare , Scott , Dickens ; greatly different in their Intellectual Stature , but ...
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... appearance : they were freckled over by minute circular spots , that bore a ferruginous tinge , somewhat resembling ... appearances 16 FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF.
... appearance : they were freckled over by minute circular spots , that bore a ferruginous tinge , somewhat resembling ... appearances 16 FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF.
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Hugh Miller. future in very unlikely pages , -in the meteoric appearances of the heavens , and in the stars , —in the flight and chirping of birds , -in the entrails of animals , -in many other strange characters besides ; and in the ...
Hugh Miller. future in very unlikely pages , -in the meteoric appearances of the heavens , and in the stars , —in the flight and chirping of birds , -in the entrails of animals , -in many other strange characters besides ; and in the ...
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amid ancient beauty Birmingham Carboniferous century character Church Clent Clent Hills Coal Measures coal-field Cowper creation crustacea curious dark deemed deep deposits district Droitwich Dudley earth England English Englishman Eugene Aram exceedingly exhibited existing feet fields fish formation fossils furnished genius geologic geologist greatly green ground Hagely Hales Owen half hill hollow Holoptychius human hundred labours land landscape Leasowes least less Limestone Lord Lyttleton lower marked ment miles mind nailer nature never Newport Pagnell ocean Old Red Sandstone Olney once Oolite passing peculiar picturesque poet poetry poor present prospect Puseyism Puseyite racter rises river rock rock-salt saliferous salt says scarce scene Scotch Scotland seems seen Shakspeare shells Shenstone Shenstone's side Silurian stone stratum stream surface tall thick things tion town traveller trees trilobite true upper valley vast walk walls wood
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Seite 253 - First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Seite 345 - Tis a note of enchantment ; what ails her ? She sees A mountain ascending, a vision of trees; Bright volumes of vapour through Lothbury glide, And a river flows on through the vale of Cheapside.
Seite 309 - And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
Seite 274 - Within the twilight of their distant shades; There, lost behind a rising ground, the wood Seems sunk, and shortened to its topmost boughs. No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar; paler some.
Seite 51 - mid th' unrustling reed, At those mirk hours the wily monster lies, And listens oft to hear the passing steed, And frequent round him rolls his sullen eyes, If chance his savage wrath may some weak wretch surprise.
Seite 211 - Westward the course of empire takes its way, The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Seite 273 - So strong the zeal to immortalize himself Beats in the breast of man, that e'en a few, Few transient years, won from th' abyss abhorr'd Of blank oblivion, seem a glorious prize, And even to a clown. Now roves the eye ; And, posted on this speculative height, Exults in its command. The sheepfold here Pours out its fleecy tenants o'er the glebe.
Seite 309 - And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein ; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Seite 23 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chilness to my trembling heart.
Seite 116 - Her speech was the melodious voice of Love, Her song the warbling of the vernal grove ; Her eloquence was sweeter than her song, Soft as her heart, and as her reason strong; Her form each beauty of her mind express'd, Her mind was Virtue by the Graces dress'd.