First Impressions of England and Its PeopleJ. Johnstone, 1847 - 411 páginas |
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... field of adventure than when , according to the Anglia Metropolis for 1690 , the " weekly waggon of Richard Hamersly the carrier " formed the sole conveyance , for passengers who did not ride horses of their own , between Brumegham and ...
... field of adventure than when , according to the Anglia Metropolis for 1690 , the " weekly waggon of Richard Hamersly the carrier " formed the sole conveyance , for passengers who did not ride horses of their own , between Brumegham and ...
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... fields deeply tinged with brown , -an effect of the soaking rains , and large tracts of diseased potatoes . A season equally bad , however , twenty years ago would have failed to influence the politics of the country . Its frequent ...
... fields deeply tinged with brown , -an effect of the soaking rains , and large tracts of diseased potatoes . A season equally bad , however , twenty years ago would have failed to influence the politics of the country . Its frequent ...
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... field , it has been simply , not because I failed to estimate their comparative values , but because I found a positive though scanty harvest awaiting me on the one , and on the other the originally luxuriant swathe cut down and car ...
... field , it has been simply , not because I failed to estimate their comparative values , but because I found a positive though scanty harvest awaiting me on the one , and on the other the originally luxuriant swathe cut down and car ...
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... field . Vast Coal - fields of the United States . - Berkeley's Prophecy . -Old Red Sandstone .-- Silurian System . - Blank .... 206 CHAPTER XIII . Birmingham ; incessant clamour of the place . - Toy - shop of Britain ; serious Character ...
... field . Vast Coal - fields of the United States . - Berkeley's Prophecy . -Old Red Sandstone .-- Silurian System . - Blank .... 206 CHAPTER XIII . Birmingham ; incessant clamour of the place . - Toy - shop of Britain ; serious Character ...
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... fields surcharged with moisture , that exhibited greener and yet greener tints as we ascended from the lowland districts to the uplands ; while on the southern side , though all was fair in the foreground , a thick sullen cloud hung low ...
... fields surcharged with moisture , that exhibited greener and yet greener tints as we ascended from the lowland districts to the uplands ; while on the southern side , though all was fair in the foreground , a thick sullen cloud hung low ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.