The Home friend, a weekly miscellany of amusement and instruction, Том 4 |
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... miles of it , and could not suffi- ciently appreciate its comfort , as contrasted with the dreadfully rough and dangerous tracks over which we had been travelling for many days . BRITISH INDIA . - No . I. GLUGUR . DURING THE HOME FRIEND .
... miles of it , and could not suffi- ciently appreciate its comfort , as contrasted with the dreadfully rough and dangerous tracks over which we had been travelling for many days . BRITISH INDIA . - No . I. GLUGUR . DURING THE HOME FRIEND .
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... miles , instead of only half a mile distant from a civilized people . Now comes a detestable bridge , composed of trunks of trees , with a layer of mortar and earth thrown over them : the rivulet over which it leads is insignificant and ...
... miles , instead of only half a mile distant from a civilized people . Now comes a detestable bridge , composed of trunks of trees , with a layer of mortar and earth thrown over them : the rivulet over which it leads is insignificant and ...
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... miles and a half . They are composed of a bastioned work , with curtains , and a ditch twelve feet deep and fourteen paces wide . The plan of the works , the superintendence of which was , not long ago , intrusted to a Russian engineer ...
... miles and a half . They are composed of a bastioned work , with curtains , and a ditch twelve feet deep and fourteen paces wide . The plan of the works , the superintendence of which was , not long ago , intrusted to a Russian engineer ...
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... miles and a half in circumference . It is recol- lected that on one occasion the Russian forces , with the Czar at their head , consumed more than two months in reducing this ill - fated town , which , after all , was delivered up by ...
... miles and a half in circumference . It is recol- lected that on one occasion the Russian forces , with the Czar at their head , consumed more than two months in reducing this ill - fated town , which , after all , was delivered up by ...
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... miles an hour on our way to the Bosphorus and Constantinople . The passage , though very stormy , soon became very agreeable in the society of a young Englishman named Bruce , correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette , ' whom his mother ...
... miles an hour on our way to the Bosphorus and Constantinople . The passage , though very stormy , soon became very agreeable in the society of a young Englishman named Bruce , correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette , ' whom his mother ...
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Сторінка 162 - He makes the figs our mouths to meet And throws the melons at our feet; But apples, plants of such a price, No tree could ever bear them twice. With cedars chosen by His hand From Lebanon He stores the land; And makes the hollow seas that roar Proclaim the ambergris on shore.
Сторінка 550 - A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Сторінка 600 - They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard ; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.
Сторінка 550 - Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap. Like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
Сторінка 162 - What should we do but sing His praise, That led us through the watery maze, Unto an isle so long unknown, And yet far kinder than our own ? Where He the huge sea-monsters wracks, That lift the deep upon their backs, He lands us on a grassy stage, Safe from the storms, and prelates
Сторінка 162 - And sends the fowls to us in care On daily visits through the air. He hangs in shades the orange bright Like...
Сторінка 129 - ... nor lend them unlawfully to any ; he shall not commit fornication nor contract matrimony within the said term ; he shall not play at cards, dice, tables, or any other unlawful games, whereby his said master may have any loss...
Сторінка 114 - On Christmas Eve the bells were rung; On Christmas Eve the mass was sung. That only night, in all the year, Saw the stoled priest the chalice rear. The damsel donn'd her kirtle sheen ; The hall was dress'd with holly green ; Forth to the wood did merry men go. To gather in the mistletoe...
Сторінка 234 - Shame knew him not, he dreaded no disgrace; Truth, simple truth, was written in his face...
Сторінка 446 - Idol ;' and before it, at a distance of three feet, was a large block of stone, also sculptured with figures and emblematical devices, which he called an altar. The sight of this unexpected monument put at rest at once and...