Life in Sweden; with Excursions in Norway and Denmark, Том 2Hurst and Blackett, 1853 |
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... latter has almost evapo- rated the bricks become soon intensely hot , so that the stove outside is too warm to touch ; and the heavy , airless warmth of the rooms is then to me most oppressive . Rejoicing in the knowledge that I could ...
... latter has almost evapo- rated the bricks become soon intensely hot , so that the stove outside is too warm to touch ; and the heavy , airless warmth of the rooms is then to me most oppressive . Rejoicing in the knowledge that I could ...
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... latter form the chief part of a really well - educated Englishwoman's training . In the country , Swedish housekeeping is cer- tainly a ponderous affair , taken in all its ramifi- cations - the care of farm produce , the spinning ...
... latter form the chief part of a really well - educated Englishwoman's training . In the country , Swedish housekeeping is cer- tainly a ponderous affair , taken in all its ramifi- cations - the care of farm produce , the spinning ...
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... latter is the most unintelligible : the importation of watered silk , for instance , being prohibited , a dress of watered silk is the most fashionable and elegant you can wear in Sweden . Smuggling is thus encouraged , for the ...
... latter is the most unintelligible : the importation of watered silk , for instance , being prohibited , a dress of watered silk is the most fashionable and elegant you can wear in Sweden . Smuggling is thus encouraged , for the ...
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... latter . Their desire to resemble the French is rather an affectation than a reality ; in frivolity and apparent levity they may sometimes appear to do So , but there is an essential seriousness in their character , and in their aspects ...
... latter . Their desire to resemble the French is rather an affectation than a reality ; in frivolity and apparent levity they may sometimes appear to do So , but there is an essential seriousness in their character , and in their aspects ...
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... latter days of October , and the whole of this busy month had been as yet a dreary one to me . Had I left Stockholm then , I should have left it without taking with me many pleasant recollections . When I returned from my visits I ...
... latter days of October , and the whole of this busy month had been as yet a dreary one to me . Had I left Stockholm then , I should have left it without taking with me many pleasant recollections . When I returned from my visits I ...
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Сторінка 301 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Сторінка 336 - For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth; so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.