Travel and Recollections of Travel with a Chat Upon Various Subjects ...Saunders and Otley, 1857 - 288 Seiten |
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... science of optics would have remained a secret to this day , and man would have gone groping in the dark like the mole that burrows its way in the bowels of the earth ; in short , a blind RECOLLECTIONS OF TRAVEL . 55.
... science of optics would have remained a secret to this day , and man would have gone groping in the dark like the mole that burrows its way in the bowels of the earth ; in short , a blind RECOLLECTIONS OF TRAVEL . 55.
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... remained for ever a secret unless the eye and light had formed that happy union which takes place in the visual organs of every man not born blind . Here then we have called in the aid of astronomy to illustrate the natural history of a ...
... remained for ever a secret unless the eye and light had formed that happy union which takes place in the visual organs of every man not born blind . Here then we have called in the aid of astronomy to illustrate the natural history of a ...
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... remained a short time at Tromsoe to land passengers . I borrowed a gun , and sallied from a town containing a considerable population for Norway , and within half a mile of the town was firing away at the ptarmagan without per- mission ...
... remained a short time at Tromsoe to land passengers . I borrowed a gun , and sallied from a town containing a considerable population for Norway , and within half a mile of the town was firing away at the ptarmagan without per- mission ...
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... remained for some time pointing out to me its many peculiarities . I then set to work with all my symbols , signs , and gestures to make him understand that I expected to see the captain , and further inquired where he lived . We had ...
... remained for some time pointing out to me its many peculiarities . I then set to work with all my symbols , signs , and gestures to make him understand that I expected to see the captain , and further inquired where he lived . We had ...
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... remained in the country some time , and who communicated to me the following , as being characteristic of the Nor- wegians . To the truth of these assertions I offer no voucher ; the reader must take them upon the same terms as they ...
... remained in the country some time , and who communicated to me the following , as being characteristic of the Nor- wegians . To the truth of these assertions I offer no voucher ; the reader must take them upon the same terms as they ...
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acquainted afterwards agreeable Alderney America animal Arnica angustifolia Baveno beautiful beautiful plains belonging blood botany captain CHAPTER charm coast colonies colour connexion constitute contains delightful district England English Englishman especially faculties fearful fish foreign forest forgotten hills frequently Fribourg organ Geneva genius gentleman head heard heart heavens individual kind knowledge Lago Maggiore Lago Maggiore appeared lake Lake of Geneva land Lapland legs light look Lord William Bentinck manner Martigny medicine menziesia miles mind moral mountains musical native nature never Norway Norwegian Norwegian Sun observed ocean Otley paid a visit peculiar perfectly performance perhaps phenomena plants possess present produced Ranunculus nivalis reader remark scene Scotland seen stand steamer sublime suddenly surface thing thought tion town traveller trees valley various vegetable Vevy wonderful Zealand
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Seite 62 - More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned; and in keeping of them there is great reward.
Seite 167 - He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for naturalization of Foreigners refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither and raising the Conditions of new appropriations of Lands...
Seite 176 - ... the great contexture of this mysterious whole. These things do not make your government. Dead instruments, passive tools as they are, it is the spirit of the English communion that gives all their life and efficacy to them. It is the spirit of the English constitution which, infused through the mighty mass, pervades, feeds, unites, invigorates, vivifies, every part of the empire, even down to the minutest member.
Seite 167 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Seite 169 - ... such principles confessed — to hear them avowed in this house, or in this country...
Seite 175 - ... and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance. But let it be once understood that your government may be one thing, and their privileges another; that these two things may exist without any mutual relation; the cement is gone; the cohesion is loosened; and everything hastens to decay and dissolution.
Seite 171 - Clouds, indeed, and darkness, rest upon the future. Let us, however, before we descend from this noble eminence, reflect that this growth of our national prosperity has happened within the short period of the life of man. It has happened within sixty-eight years. There are those alive whose memory might touch the two extremities. For instance, my Lord Ba,thurst might remember all the stages of the progress. He was in 1704 of an age at least to be made to comprehend such things. He was then old enough...
Seite 168 - If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I would never lay down my arms — never, never, never...
Seite 166 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Seite 63 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.