A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804Lincoln and Gleason, 1806 - 330 páginas |
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... am encouraged by them to request , that you will honor with indulgent acceptance , a book , whose au- thor has endeavored to unite amusement and informa- tion . Doubtful of success in each of his purposes , he 1198257-190.
... am encouraged by them to request , that you will honor with indulgent acceptance , a book , whose au- thor has endeavored to unite amusement and informa- tion . Doubtful of success in each of his purposes , he 1198257-190.
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... offered , to her lasting honor , twenty thousand volunteer defenders of their homes and altars , nine thousand were only wanted or could be accepted ; in the latter , a spirited body of my fellow - 14 [ CHAP . 1 . NORTHERN SUMMER .
... offered , to her lasting honor , twenty thousand volunteer defenders of their homes and altars , nine thousand were only wanted or could be accepted ; in the latter , a spirited body of my fellow - 14 [ CHAP . 1 . NORTHERN SUMMER .
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... swal- " low'd with yest and froth . " But to the honor of the brave Helogolanders , they never augment the horrors of the enraged element . Humanity and honorable interest impel them B 2 CHAP . 1. ] 17 NORTHERN SUMMER .
... swal- " low'd with yest and froth . " But to the honor of the brave Helogolanders , they never augment the horrors of the enraged element . Humanity and honorable interest impel them B 2 CHAP . 1. ] 17 NORTHERN SUMMER .
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... honor of the female . sex , that however we were at a loss to explain ourselves on account of our ignorance of the Danish language , and had exhausted our stock of gestures upon the men in vain , we always found that the women ...
... honor of the female . sex , that however we were at a loss to explain ourselves on account of our ignorance of the Danish language , and had exhausted our stock of gestures upon the men in vain , we always found that the women ...
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... honor of being presented to the Crown Prince , who at this time was in Holstein with that able and excellent minister Count Bernstoff . The Prince is virtually the sovereign of the kingdom , as his father has for many years presented ...
... honor of being presented to the Crown Prince , who at this time was in Holstein with that able and excellent minister Count Bernstoff . The Prince is virtually the sovereign of the kingdom , as his father has for many years presented ...
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A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ... Sir John Carr Visualização completa - 1805 |
A northern summer: or travels round the Baltic, through Denmark, Sweden ... Sir John Carr Visualização completa - 1805 |
A Northern Summer: Or, Travels Round the Baltic, Through Denmark, Sweden ... Sir John Carr Visualização completa - 1805 |
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Página 51 - Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it.
Página 35 - When I see kings lying by those who deposed them when I consider rival wits placed side by side or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions factions* and debates of mankind.
Página 324 - Tu-who, a merry note, While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. When all aloud the wind doth blow And coughing drowns the parson's saw And birds sit brooding in the snow And Marian's nose looks red and...
Página 52 - The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.
Página 294 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
Página 100 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
Página 221 - Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright, The screws reversed, (a task which if he please God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use.
Página 26 - And, having dropp'd th' expected bag, pass on. I He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful : messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some; To him indiff'rent whether grief or joy. Houses in ashes, and the fall of stocks, Births, deaths, and .marriages, epistles wet With tears, that trickled down the writer's cheeks Fast as the periods from his fluent quill, Or charg'd with am'rous sighs of absent swains, Or nymphs responsive, equally affect His horse and him,...
Página 70 - And curd, like eager droppings into milk, The thin and wholesome blood: so did it mine; And a most instant tetter bark'd about, Most lazar-like, with vile and loathsome crust, All my smooth body. Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother's hand, Of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatch'd...
Página 171 - Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of discovery, and begets In those that suffer it, a sordid mind Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form.