Sketches of Foreign Travel: And Life at Sea; Including a Cruise on Board a Man-of-war, as Also a Visit to Spain, Portugal, the South of France, Italy ...Tappan and Dennet, 1842 |
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... peculiarly picturesque , and the weather pleasant , our ride was truly de- lightful . The hill - sides , from the fertile valleys at their base to their white and craggy summits , were covered with a suc- cession of terraces , richly ...
... peculiarly picturesque , and the weather pleasant , our ride was truly de- lightful . The hill - sides , from the fertile valleys at their base to their white and craggy summits , were covered with a suc- cession of terraces , richly ...
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... peculiar energy and success to commerce , they soon had settlements in Sicily , Corsica , and on the seacoast of Italy . Their ships rivalled those of Tyre , passing the Straits of Gibraltar and trading on the western coast of Europe ...
... peculiar energy and success to commerce , they soon had settlements in Sicily , Corsica , and on the seacoast of Italy . Their ships rivalled those of Tyre , passing the Straits of Gibraltar and trading on the western coast of Europe ...
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... peculiar vigi- lance and care , has been prevented from entering the city . The great plague in the 14th century , began like the chol- era in the East , in China , Tartary , India , and Egypt , about 1345. It appeared in England , in ...
... peculiar vigi- lance and care , has been prevented from entering the city . The great plague in the 14th century , began like the chol- era in the East , in China , Tartary , India , and Egypt , about 1345. It appeared in England , in ...
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... peculiarly distinguished themselves in connexion with the ravages of the plague in the city . The college of medicine was founded in the time of Henry the Second . Surgery was for a long time despised by physicians , the practice of it ...
... peculiarly distinguished themselves in connexion with the ravages of the plague in the city . The college of medicine was founded in the time of Henry the Second . Surgery was for a long time despised by physicians , the practice of it ...
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... peculiar interest to those of a serious , intelligent , and re- flecting turn of mind . Few men have drawn more splendid and imposing pictures of Catholic rites and ceremonies than Sir Walter Scott . So enchanted was he with the aged ...
... peculiar interest to those of a serious , intelligent , and re- flecting turn of mind . Few men have drawn more splendid and imposing pictures of Catholic rites and ceremonies than Sir Walter Scott . So enchanted was he with the aged ...
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الصفحة 388 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.
الصفحة 400 - He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks ; till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
الصفحة 167 - And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. And they said among themselves, "Who shall roll us away the stone from the door of the sepulchre?" And when they looked, they saw that the stone was rolled away: for it was very great.
الصفحة 257 - We forget that old proverb, that an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure, — that that is the truest wisdom which advises the overcoming of the beginnings of evil.
الصفحة 355 - And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
الصفحة 315 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
الصفحة 133 - Four acres was the' allotted space of ground, Fenced with a green enclosure all around : Tall thriving trees confess'd the fruitful mould ; The reddening apple ripens here to gold : Here the blue fig with luscious juice o'erflows, With deeper red the full pomegranate glows, The branch here bends beneath the weighty pear, And verdant olives flourish round the year.
الصفحة 399 - Any officer, or other person in the navy, who shall be guilty of oppression, cruelty, fraud, profane swearing, drunkenness, or any other scandalous conduct, tending to the destruction of good morals, shall, if an officer, be cashiered, or suffer such other punishment as a court martial shall adjudge...
الصفحة 314 - For a thousand years in Thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night. Thou carriest them away as with a flood ; they are as a sleep : In the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up ; In the evening it is cut down, and...
الصفحة 218 - Neither do men put new wine into old bottles : else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish : but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.