Days and Nights in the TropicsMorang & Company, limited, 1905 - 230 pages |
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... stood star - white against the foliage . An electric button at the gate lodge notified the palace inmates of the approach of visitors , and when I stepped down from the carriage I was met by His Excellency who welcomed me with the true ...
... stood star - white against the foliage . An electric button at the gate lodge notified the palace inmates of the approach of visitors , and when I stepped down from the carriage I was met by His Excellency who welcomed me with the true ...
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... stood on the banks of La Brea , the famous Lake of Pitch , a horror - haunted stygian of unsounded depths , a mummified lake shunned by the Carib Indians , who believed it to be the abode of lost souls and evil spirits . In the account ...
... stood on the banks of La Brea , the famous Lake of Pitch , a horror - haunted stygian of unsounded depths , a mummified lake shunned by the Carib Indians , who believed it to be the abode of lost souls and evil spirits . In the account ...
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... ashes , cinders , lapilli , and arenaceous trap lined the highway , and were piled up many feet high , as with us when the railroad tracks are cleared after a heavy snowstorm . At two P.M. we stood 63 MARTINIQUE AND ST . PIERRE.
... ashes , cinders , lapilli , and arenaceous trap lined the highway , and were piled up many feet high , as with us when the railroad tracks are cleared after a heavy snowstorm . At two P.M. we stood 63 MARTINIQUE AND ST . PIERRE.
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William Richard Harris. after a heavy snowstorm . At two P.M. we stood over the site of the lost city . There were no ruins ; nothing but a few feet of one of the cathedral towers and that of the Lycée were visible ; everything , houses ...
William Richard Harris. after a heavy snowstorm . At two P.M. we stood over the site of the lost city . There were no ruins ; nothing but a few feet of one of the cathedral towers and that of the Lycée were visible ; everything , houses ...
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... stood there for many years , and amid obscene rites and blasphemous songs , cast the sacred figure into the crater , their leader yelling , as it sank out of sight , " Go where Thou deservest to go , into Thine own Hell . " The I record ...
... stood there for many years , and amid obscene rites and blasphemous songs , cast the sacred figure into the crater , their leader yelling , as it sank out of sight , " Go where Thou deservest to go , into Thine own Hell . " The I record ...
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Page 125 - Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
Page 163 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 25 - Still o'er these scenes my memory wakes, and fondly broods with miser care ; time but the impression deeper makes, as streams their channels deeper wear.
Page 175 - Whosoever will be saved: before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholic Faith. Which Faith, except every one do keep whole and undefiled: without doubt he shall perish everlastingly.
Page iv - Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three, by THE COPP, CLARK COMPANY (L1M1TED), Toronto, Ontario, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture.
Page 167 - Ye whose hearts are fresh and simple, Who have faith in God and Nature, Who believe, that in all ages Every human heart is human, That in even savage bosoms There are longings, yearnings, strivings For the good they comprehend not, That the feeble hands and helpless, Groping blindly in the darkness, Touch God's right hand in that darkness And are lifted up and strengthened...
Page 155 - One he surpassed in the difficulty of the scene of action, another in the extent of the countries he subdued; this, in the number and strength of the enemies he overcame, that, in the savage manners and treacherous disposition of the people he humanized; one, in mildness and clemency to his prisoners, another, in bounty and munificence to his troops; and all, in the number of battles that...
Page 6 - Argos, the pasture-land of horses, but the deathless gods will convey thee to the Elysian plain and the world's end, where is Rhadamanthus of the fair hair, where life is easiest for men. No snow is there, nor yet great storm, nor any rain; but always ocean sendeth forth the breeze of the shrill West to blow cool on men: yea, for thou hast Helen to wife, and thereby they deem thee to be son of Zeus.
Page 196 - I stood before the triple northern port, Where dedicated shapes of saints and kings, Stern faces bleared with immemorial watch, Looked down benignly grave and seemed to say, Ye come and go incessant ; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past ; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.
Page 148 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.