Domestic Memoirs of a Christian Family Resident in the County of Cumberland: With Descriptive Sketches of the Scenery of the British LakesJ. Hatchard and Son, 1848 - 416 pages |
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... nature . It was built on a gentle eminence overlooking the lake ; with a flower- garden and shrubbery extending in front , and which opened on a terrace that sloped down to the water's edge , where a handsome boat belonging to the ...
... nature . It was built on a gentle eminence overlooking the lake ; with a flower- garden and shrubbery extending in front , and which opened on a terrace that sloped down to the water's edge , where a handsome boat belonging to the ...
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... nature without . In addition to the usual assortment of chairs and tables , a pianoforte occupied a corner of the room ; and on the opposite side was placed a well - stored book - case ; while the few pictures that ornamented the walls ...
... nature without . In addition to the usual assortment of chairs and tables , a pianoforte occupied a corner of the room ; and on the opposite side was placed a well - stored book - case ; while the few pictures that ornamented the walls ...
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... Nature will then have triumphed over all the powers of art ; the gigantic torrent will then urge on its own impetuous course , defying embankments and artificial boundaries , and occasionally burst- ing forth into new channels , carry ...
... Nature will then have triumphed over all the powers of art ; the gigantic torrent will then urge on its own impetuous course , defying embankments and artificial boundaries , and occasionally burst- ing forth into new channels , carry ...
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... nature , -unreclaimed by wise counsels , untrained in the way he should go , ' - the consequences to society , besides the awful personal ruin to the individual , become as power- fully destructive as the inundation to the husbandman ...
... nature , -unreclaimed by wise counsels , untrained in the way he should go , ' - the consequences to society , besides the awful personal ruin to the individual , become as power- fully destructive as the inundation to the husbandman ...
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... natural to a human heart , however wisely regulated , on seeing its brightest sublunary hopes thus unexpectedly and deeply obscured , the religious principles in which Mr. Gracelove had been so care- fully educated by his lamented ...
... natural to a human heart , however wisely regulated , on seeing its brightest sublunary hopes thus unexpectedly and deeply obscured , the religious principles in which Mr. Gracelove had been so care- fully educated by his lamented ...
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