First Impressions of England and Its PeopleJ. Johnstone, 1847 - 411 páginas |
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Página vii
... period proves as fertile in events - represented by the sounding of the seven trumpets as the foregoing six taken together ; and that on the sounding of the seventh trumpet , so great is the further accelera- tion , that there is an ...
... period proves as fertile in events - represented by the sounding of the seven trumpets as the foregoing six taken together ; and that on the sounding of the seventh trumpet , so great is the further accelera- tion , that there is an ...
Página ix
... what is now Eng- land , during the geologic periods . The art so peculiar to the pre- sent age , of deciphering the ancient hieroglyphics sculptured on the rocks of our country , is gradually extending from TO THE READER . IX.
... what is now Eng- land , during the geologic periods . The art so peculiar to the pre- sent age , of deciphering the ancient hieroglyphics sculptured on the rocks of our country , is gradually extending from TO THE READER . IX.
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... periods to which the record so graphically refers . The geologist in our own country feels himself in exactly the circumstances of the traveller who journeys amid the deserts of Sinai , and sees the front of almost every precipice ...
... periods to which the record so graphically refers . The geologist in our own country feels himself in exactly the circumstances of the traveller who journeys amid the deserts of Sinai , and sees the front of almost every precipice ...
Página xvii
... Period ; of the Secondary ; of the Tertiary . - Ocean the great Agent of Change and Dilapida- tion .... CHAPTER XII . Geological colouring of the Landscape . - Close Proximity in this Neighbourhood of the various Geologic Systems ...
... Period ; of the Secondary ; of the Tertiary . - Ocean the great Agent of Change and Dilapida- tion .... CHAPTER XII . Geological colouring of the Landscape . - Close Proximity in this Neighbourhood of the various Geologic Systems ...
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... period . Then come the memorials of an after formation . This wild country is invaded by a much more civilized race than the one by which it is inhabited : we find distinct marks of their lines of march , -of the forests which they cut ...
... period . Then come the memorials of an after formation . This wild country is invaded by a much more civilized race than the one by which it is inhabited : we find distinct marks of their lines of march , -of the forests which they cut ...
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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.