The London Quarterly Review, Volume 19Theodore Foster, 1819 |
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... Island , during the Years 1814 and 1815 , containing Observations on the Natural Phenomena , History , Literature , and Antiquities of the Island ; and the Religion , Character , Manners , and Customs of its Inhabitants . By Ebenezer ...
... Island , during the Years 1814 and 1815 , containing Observations on the Natural Phenomena , History , Literature , and Antiquities of the Island ; and the Religion , Character , Manners , and Customs of its Inhabitants . By Ebenezer ...
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... island of Ischia lest they should destroy the game , and when these useful animals had been extirpated , the rats became so numerous , that infants were not safe from them in the cradle . Proceeding from France into Italy , Evelyn ...
... island of Ischia lest they should destroy the game , and when these useful animals had been extirpated , the rats became so numerous , that infants were not safe from them in the cradle . Proceeding from France into Italy , Evelyn ...
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... on purpose to the Borromean islands unless he had a great deal of leisure : for he says , there is nothing very rare or extraordinary in them . A man ( who never saw but very ordinary things of that nature 10 Evelyn's Memoirs .
... on purpose to the Borromean islands unless he had a great deal of leisure : for he says , there is nothing very rare or extraordinary in them . A man ( who never saw but very ordinary things of that nature 10 Evelyn's Memoirs .
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... islands if he were suddenly transported thither , but they would never produce the same effect upon one that has seen a ... island than joyn'd to any other hills , for we could perceive nothing but a sea of thick clouds rowling under our ...
... islands if he were suddenly transported thither , but they would never produce the same effect upon one that has seen a ... island than joyn'd to any other hills , for we could perceive nothing but a sea of thick clouds rowling under our ...
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... islands . The sap of the sycamore makes a wine like the birch , and may also be used in brewing with such advantage that one bushel of malt makes as good ale with sycamore sap , as four bushels with water . In praising the lime as ...
... islands . The sap of the sycamore makes a wine like the birch , and may also be used in brewing with such advantage that one bushel of malt makes as good ale with sycamore sap , as four bushels with water . In praising the lime as ...
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Page 279 - That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is upon the...
Page 226 - And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away...
Page 273 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth and every herb of the field before it grew for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth and there was not a man to till the ground...
Page 262 - And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; and the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Page 276 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Page 206 - Made for our searching : yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Trees old and young, sprouting a shady boon For simple sheep ; and such are daffodils With the green world they live in...
Page 221 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand...
Page 276 - ... and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth : and it was so. And God made the two great lights ; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night : he made the stars also.
Page 301 - And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, inquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence. And when ye come into an house, salute it. And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
Page 267 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled : at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.