Sketches of Germany and the Germans: With a Glance at Poland, Hungary, & Switzerland in 1834, 1835, and 1836, Volumen 1Whittaker, 1836 - 365 páginas |
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... four- teen hundred , besides the national guards , and a corps of police , about four hundred : the latter are extremely well organized , perform the duties of firemen , and watch the rise and fall of the Elbe , whose inundations are ...
... four- teen hundred , besides the national guards , and a corps of police , about four hundred : the latter are extremely well organized , perform the duties of firemen , and watch the rise and fall of the Elbe , whose inundations are ...
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... four German miles in circumference , surrounded by a chain of hills ; the general character of its scenery is wooded fertility and beauty , no where rising into the sublime . On the banks we perceive several pretty villages , some ...
... four German miles in circumference , surrounded by a chain of hills ; the general character of its scenery is wooded fertility and beauty , no where rising into the sublime . On the banks we perceive several pretty villages , some ...
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... four or five stately trees , real giants of the forest ; it would appear , there- fore , that a damp , changeable climate , for such is Hol- stein , is favourable to their growth , and also tends to the perfection of nature's noblest ...
... four or five stately trees , real giants of the forest ; it would appear , there- fore , that a damp , changeable climate , for such is Hol- stein , is favourable to their growth , and also tends to the perfection of nature's noblest ...
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... four hundred . Her commerce and manufactures have become so unimportant as scarcely to deserve mentioning ; the former is confined to com- mission houses , and the transit of merchandize by flat- bottomed boats , on the shallow rivers ...
... four hundred . Her commerce and manufactures have become so unimportant as scarcely to deserve mentioning ; the former is confined to com- mission houses , and the transit of merchandize by flat- bottomed boats , on the shallow rivers ...
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... four leagues in length and one in breadth , with a population of about six hundred ; and if I found the natives of Rugen simple in their customs and manners , these are so in a ten - fold degree . A stranger , on observing their huts ...
... four leagues in length and one in breadth , with a population of about six hundred ; and if I found the natives of Rugen simple in their customs and manners , these are so in a ten - fold degree . A stranger , on observing their huts ...
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Página 53 - He who hath bent him o'er the dead Ere the first day of death is fled, The first dark day of nothingness, The last of danger and distress, (Before Decay's effacing fingers Have swept the lines where beauty lingers...
Página 95 - And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat : for hitherto ye were not able to bear it. Neither yet now are ye able.
Página 53 - Appals the gazing mourner's heart, As if to him it could impart The doom he dreads, yet dwells upon; Yes, but for these and these alone, Some moments, ay, one treacherous hour, He still might doubt the tyrant's power; So fair, so calm, so softly seal'd, The first, last look by death reveal'd!
Página 302 - Philadelphia, he soon started a mail from each of these cities three times a week in summer and once a week in winter. To get an answer from Boston a Philadelphian had been obliged to wait six weeks; the time was quickly reduced to three weeks.
Página 293 - Who o'er the herd would wish to reign, Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain ! Vain as the leaf upon the stream, And fickle as a changeful dream ; Fantastic as a woman's mood, And fierce as Frenzy's fever'd blood.
Página 95 - I have fed you with milk and not with meat," says St. Paul, " for ye were not able to bear it ; neither yet are ye able ;" he evidently implies a hope that they (ie not some future generation, but those very individuals) will be able to bear it : nay, he is evidently reproaching them for not being already better qualified for the reception of divine Truth. Indeed the very similitude of babes, of itself draws our attention...
Página 275 - He amused not a little the large circle that had gathered round him on the evening I first met him, with anecdotes of my lion-hunting countrymen. During the travelling season, he informed us, he frequently received a dozen notes in a day, each requesting the honour of an interview. The best bust of this distinguished man is by Rauch, and his portrait by Kolbe, of Dusseldorf, is a very accurate likeness.
Página 44 - The dreary crags on each side arose to such an altitude, as to exclude all prospect over the adjacent country ; and, in truth, the scenery was so wild, and the signs of human habitation so few, that a traveller might deem he had arrived in a country in a state of infancy ; and the appearance of the castle of Reinach, with its majestic towers, is hailed with pleasure. From this place a succession of picturesque rocks, ruins, villages, and lofty hills finely wooded, accompany us to Aschach, •where...
Página 178 - Those to the left are numerous, spacious, and lofty, while the others, though smaller, are more varied in their fantastic forms. As we advance they become more elevated, and the columns more majestic, till, after traversing two leagues in the heart of the earth, our progress is terminated by a deep subterranean lake. It would be impossible to describe, with any degree of accuracy, the varied natural architecture of this city of stalactites. In one place we appear wandering through the aisles of a...
Página 234 - ... cliffs, cut and intersected like those already described. From the farther bank, the plain gradually elevates itself into an irregular amphitheatre, terminated by a lofty, but rounded range of mountains. The striking feature is, that in the bosom of this amphitheatre, a plain of the most varied beauty, huge columnar hills start up at once from the ground, at great distances from each other, overlooking, in lonely and solemn grandeur, each its own portion of the domain. They are monuments which...