Excursions to Arran, Ailsa Craig, and the two Cumbraes, with reference to the natural history of these islands |
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Excursions to Arran, Ailsa Craig, and the Two Cumbraes: With Reference to ... David Landsborough Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2008 |
Excursions to Arran, Ailsa Craig, and the Two Cumbraes: With Reference to ... David Landsborough Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2008 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 165 - Christ, who, though he was rich, yet for our sakes, became poor, that we through his poverty might be made rich...
Seite 26 - God is our refuge and strength : a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed : and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea : Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled : though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
Seite 95 - Give answer from thy voice, the sea-fowls' screams ! When were thy shoulders mantled in huge streams ? When, from the sun, was thy broad forehead hid ? How long is't since the mighty power bid Thee heave to airy sleep from fathom dreams ? Sleep in the lap of thunder or sunbeams, Or when grey clouds are thy cold coverlid. Thou...
Seite 29 - ... to the shape and form of a bird. When it is perfectly formed, the shell gapeth open, and the first thing that appeareth is the...
Seite 180 - It is Friday evening, 18th October 1650. 'The Ministers and Magistrates flee all away. I got to the Isle of Cumbrae with my Lady Montgomery ; but left all my family and goods to Cromwell's courtesy, — which indeed was great ; for he took such a course with his soldiers that they did less displeasure at Glasgow than if they had been in London ; though Mr. Zachary Boyd,' a fantastic old gentleman still known in Glasgow and Scotland, ' railed on them all, to their very face, in the High Church...
Seite 74 - ... around. The beauty and novelty of such* a scene in the animal kingdom, long arrested my attention, but after twenty-five minutes of constant observation, I was obliged to withdraw my eye from fatigue, without having seen the torrent for one instant change its direction, or diminish, in the slightest degree, the rapidity of its course.
Seite 132 - The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup : thou maintainest my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Seite 9 - Go abroad Upon the paths of nature, and, when all . Its voices whisper, and its silent things Are breathing the deep beauty of the world, Kneel at its simple altar, and the God Who hath the living waters shall be there ! THE TORN HAT.
Seite 29 - But what our eies have seen, and our hands touched, we shall declare. There is a small island in Lancashire called the Pile of Foulders, wherein are found the broken pieces of old and bruised ships, some whereof have been cast thither by shipwracke, and also the trunks and bodies with the branches of old and rotten trees...
Seite 29 - But what our eies have seene, and hands have touched we shall declare. There is a small Island in Lancashire called the Pile of Foulders, wherein are found the broken pieces of old and bruised ships, some whereof have...