The Rhine: Or, A Journey from Utrecht to Francfort; Chiefly by the Borders of the Rhine, and the Passage Down the River, from Mentz to Bonn, Band 1G. Woodfall, 1794 - 24 Seiten |
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Seite 189 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud, if our faults whipt them not ; and our crimes would defpair, if they were not cherifh'd by our virtues.
Seite 20 - River, that has feen numberlefs generations fucceed to each other as rapidly as its own fluids ; and that has a natural claim to flow on to the end of the world, if fomething more than human does not check its current ? It feems to be my fate to officiate as chief mourner on the exit of this great River.
Seite 191 - ... a manner, that he would pardon the impertinence, on account of its merit. Encouraged by this declaration, the young...
Seite 8 - One circumftance is againft me. As no defign of fpreading upon paper a particular account of this journey was entertained by me at the time ; and as my minutes were taken merely to affift my own recollection, and were confined to thofe...
Seite 78 - This is plain ! for if the prieft be able to make one metamarpbofe, and turn a wafer into a God, who dares aflert that this god-wafer is not able to make another, and to change its mode of exiftence as often as it pleafes ? and who will fay l\\zlfelf-creation is not better than a doubtful original?
Seite 77 - Chriftian patience, or it would have avenged its cau.fe by fome judicial miracle ! You plainly fee what a juggling trick this has been of the Virgin. She has taken away all the honour, power and profits from one that has a prior right...
Seite 77 - The prieft, as we all know, by confecrating the wafer, converted it into genuine body and blood. It was therefore endowed with a vital principle, and with the power of afting, or elfe the whole procefs of transformation would be of no moment.
Seite 19 - Lack was not to blame, and that he has done nothing more than what every other river would and muft have done in his place. Some...
Seite 6 - However, accept of the following condition ; permit me to intermix with the drfcriptions or narratives of my route, thofe fentiments or recollections to which they may have given rife, and I am at your command. Without having been an...
Seite 9 - ... has been for fome time enjoyed, of our being haunted by that daemon of the indolent, yclept ENNUI. I do aver, and will maintain, that there are few people in the world who fear this daemon lefs than myfelf, or that have been lefs annoyed by him. The diverfity of my tafte, which I mournfully acknowlegc to be too general to purfue any on...