The Flowers of Modern Travels: Being Elegant, Entertaining and Instructive Extracts, Selected from the Works of the Most Celebrated Travelers, Том 2Pub. for the subscribers, John H. Belcher, agent, 1816 |
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... renders it damp , unwholesome , and swarming with musquitos . The major of this for- tress owes his promotion to a singular circumstance . When the present king arrived at Madrid in 1759 , a magnificent bull - feast was given in honour ...
... renders it damp , unwholesome , and swarming with musquitos . The major of this for- tress owes his promotion to a singular circumstance . When the present king arrived at Madrid in 1759 , a magnificent bull - feast was given in honour ...
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... rendering these heights proper for sheep . In the northern parts of Europe , the tops of mountains half the height of these ( for we were above snow in July ) are bogs . All are so which I have seen in our islands : or , at least , the ...
... rendering these heights proper for sheep . In the northern parts of Europe , the tops of mountains half the height of these ( for we were above snow in July ) are bogs . All are so which I have seen in our islands : or , at least , the ...
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... render the most common objects interesting . The road leads under trees , whose arching boughs present at every ten paces new landscapes . The woods here are thick , and present fine masses of shade ; the rocks large , and every out ...
... render the most common objects interesting . The road leads under trees , whose arching boughs present at every ten paces new landscapes . The woods here are thick , and present fine masses of shade ; the rocks large , and every out ...
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... own life renders him very strict about the conduct of his children , whom he o- bliges to be out fishing or shooting as long as he is VOL . II , D absent on the same business . This he does to FLOWERS OF MODERN TRAVELS . 31.
... own life renders him very strict about the conduct of his children , whom he o- bliges to be out fishing or shooting as long as he is VOL . II , D absent on the same business . This he does to FLOWERS OF MODERN TRAVELS . 31.
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... render this court a very gay one ; for she appears to like to go abroad , and converse with strangers . When she walks sut , all persons that have been presented , and chance to be in the way , are expected to join her company , and ...
... render this court a very gay one ; for she appears to like to go abroad , and converse with strangers . When she walks sut , all persons that have been presented , and chance to be in the way , are expected to join her company , and ...
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Achradina Aleppo ambassador amongst amusement Andernach animals antient Antwerp appeared Arethusa arrived Austrian Netherlands Barcelona Basil Batavia beautiful called character Cherokees Chinese church colour common covered distance dress English erect eyes favour feet fire foot French frequently ground habit hand Hebrides honour horde Hottentot Houzouanas hundred huts Indians inhabitants Inverness Jacobin La Harpe labour ladies land LAPLAND least live manner ment Micon miles mind mountains Muscogulges nation nature negro neighbours never night Norway obliged observed ornaments pass perceived person plain present purple heron Pyrenees religion rendered respect rise river road Rochemelon rocks scarcely seat SECT seemed seen seldom side snow sometimes soon Spain spirit standing stone strangers supposed Surinam Syracuse taste THEOPHILANTHROPISTS thought tion town travellers trees Troglodytes Turin valley vessel whole wind wine women young
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Сторінка 180 - Cherokees in their dispositions and manners are grave and steady; dignified and circumspect in their deportment; rather slow and reserved in conversation; yet frank, cheerful, and humane; tenacious of the liberties and natural rights of man; secret, deliberate and determined in their councils; honest, just and liberal, and ready always to sacrifice every pleasure and gratification, even their blood, and life itself, to defend their territory and maintain their rights.
Сторінка 79 - HAD desired to visit the Hebrides, or Western Islands of Scotland, so long, that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally excited ; and was in the autumn of the year 1773 induced to undertake the journey, by finding in Mr.
Сторінка 104 - There was perhaps never any change of national manners so quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated in the Highlands, by the last conquest, and the subsequent laws. We came thither too late to see what we expected, a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated life.
Сторінка 278 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th
Сторінка 294 - The naked negro, panting at the Line, Boasts of his golden sands and palmy wine, Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave, And thanks his gods for all the good they gave. Such is the patriot's boast where'er we roam, His first, best country, ever is at home.
Сторінка 179 - They are, I believe, the smallest race of women yet known, seldom above five feet high, and I believe the greater number never arrive to that stature ; their hands and feet not larger than those of Europeans of nine or ten years of age : yet the men are of gigantic stature, a full size larger than Europeans ; many of them above six feet, and few under that, or five feet eight or ten inches.
Сторінка 98 - Length of life is distributed impartially to very different modes of life in very different climates; and the mountains have no greater examples of age and health than the Lowlands, where I...
Сторінка 312 - Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of 'bones; and caused me to pass by them round about ; and, behold, there were very many in the open valley ; and, lo, they were very dry. And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.
Сторінка 296 - ... years ! Kings had attempted this discovery at the head of armies, and each expedition was distinguished from the last only by the difference of the numbers which had perished, and agreed alone in the disappointment which had uniformly and without exception followed them all.
Сторінка 201 - Knowing by instinct that the person they intend to attack is in a sound slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fanning with his enormous wings, which keeps one cool, he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very small indeed that the head of a pin could scarcely be received into the wound, which is consequently not painful; yet through this orifice he continues to suck the blood, until he is obliged to disgorge.