Letters from the North of Europe: Or, A Journal of Travels in Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Prussia, and Saxony

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Key & Biddle, 1833 - 311 стор.
 

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Сторінка 222 - One might imagine all the states of Europe and Asia had sent a building, by way of representative, to Moscow ; and under this impression the eye is presented with deputies from all countries, holding congress: timber huts from regions beyond the Arctic; plastered palaces from Sweden and Denmark, not whitewashed since their arrival ; painted walls from the Tyrol ; mosques from Constantinople ; Tartar temples from...
Сторінка 4 - PLACE. NOT more than THREE volumes shall be taken out at the same time, and no books shall be permitted to be taken or used, but by the owner of a share, or his family. For the...
Сторінка 42 - Storks are human beings in that form, men from some distant islands, who, at certain seasons of the year, assume the shape of these birds, that they may visit Barbary, and return at a...
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Сторінка 309 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads and hanging them With deaf...
Сторінка 13 - God are the principal medium by which he displays the attributes of this nature to intelligent beings — that the study and contemplation of these works employ the faculties of intelligences of a superior order — that man, had he remained in primeval innocence, would have been chiefly employed in such contemplations — that it is one main design of divine revelation to illustrate the operations of Providence, and the agency of God in the formation and preservation of all things — ami that the...
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Сторінка 4 - ... per library day, if detained beyond five weeks ; — for abuse of Books, the value thereof when new. If any Book be lost, the same must be replaced by a similar volume, or by paying the current price of a new volume ; if it be part of a sett, the remainder must be taken, paying the current price of a new sett.
Сторінка 54 - He sinks the sense of pain in generous pride, Nor feels the shaft that trembles in his side; But neighs to the shrill trumpet's dreadful blast Till death; and when he groans, he groans his last.
Сторінка 26 - Pulverized diamond is placed on these ; and the stone to be polished, fastened at the end of a piece of wood, by means of an amalgam of zinc and quicksilver, is submitted to the friction of the adamantine particles. This is the only mode of acting...

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