On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With Occasional Remarks on the Laws, Customs, Manners, and Opinions of Various Nations, Τόμος 2Whittaker, 1823 |
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... gives the powers of oratory ; to others the inspiration of poetry . Some , with a bolder impulse , touch , as it were , the stars with their fingers ; while others , at an humbler distance , investigate the instinct of a worm , or ...
... gives the powers of oratory ; to others the inspiration of poetry . Some , with a bolder impulse , touch , as it were , the stars with their fingers ; while others , at an humbler distance , investigate the instinct of a worm , or ...
Σελίδα 24
... give no indication of the soil , to which the various plants are attached ; and none of their habits , fruits , or natures . Shrub is classed with root ; and tree with flower . Even 1 Vid . Linn . Biblioth . Botanica , part vii ...
... give no indication of the soil , to which the various plants are attached ; and none of their habits , fruits , or natures . Shrub is classed with root ; and tree with flower . Even 1 Vid . Linn . Biblioth . Botanica , part vii ...
Σελίδα 33
... gives of this celestial vision , is a little too sublunary ; for he says , that he found men but little changed . They eat , drink , and marry . There are towns , cities , and villages ; silver , gold , and every description of precious ...
... gives of this celestial vision , is a little too sublunary ; for he says , that he found men but little changed . They eat , drink , and marry . There are towns , cities , and villages ; silver , gold , and every description of precious ...
Σελίδα 40
... gives the following description . They are two in number , separated only by a narrow channel ; at the distance of ten thousand furlongs from the African coast . They are called the Fortunate Islands . Rain seldom falls there ; and when ...
... gives the following description . They are two in number , separated only by a narrow channel ; at the distance of ten thousand furlongs from the African coast . They are called the Fortunate Islands . Rain seldom falls there ; and when ...
Σελίδα 41
... give them away ! These islands are supposed to be the fragments of At- lantis , which Plato represents , as being as large as Syria and Asia Minor ; and which , in the splendour of its architecture , the richness of its metals , the ...
... give them away ! These islands are supposed to be the fragments of At- lantis , which Plato represents , as being as large as Syria and Asia Minor ; and which , in the splendour of its architecture , the richness of its metals , the ...
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admiration Africa agreeable America ancient animals Apollonius of Tyana Asia beautiful bees birds called celebrated charms China climate coast colour compares continent cultivated curious delightful distance earth Egypt elegant emigrate England equal esteemed Ethiopia Europe females fish floating flocks flowers formed France frequently fruits garden Greece Greenland grows happy heaven Hist honey honour imagination Indian inhabitants insects introduced islands Italy Java king labour land landscape Lapland latitudes live Lucretius manner ment mountains native Nature never observed ocean painting paradise passage pastoral Persia Peru Petrarch picture plants pleasure Plin Pliny Plutarch poet quadrupeds remarkable river rocks Roman rose says scenes season seeds shade sheep shepherd shore Siberia soil soul South South Wales species Strabo Tasso Theocritus Titian trees vales vegetable Vide village vine Virgil voyage wild
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Σελίδα 216 - In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Σελίδα 223 - Breathes there a man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself has said, This is my own, my native land!
Σελίδα 223 - As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well ; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch concentered all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Σελίδα 267 - Ye winds, that have made me your sport, Convey to this desolate shore Some cordial endearing report Of a land I shall visit no more. My friends, do they now and then send A wish or a thought after me ? O tell me I yet have a friend, Though a friend I am never to see.
Σελίδα 246 - BY THE rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
Σελίδα 236 - There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Σελίδα 312 - A man, who is born into a world, already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents, on whom he has a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food ; and, in fact, has no business to be where he is. At Nature's mighty feast there is no vacant cover for him. She tells him to be gone, and will quickly execute her own orders, if he does not work upon the compassion of some of the guests.
Σελίδα 336 - Behold, fond man ! See here thy pictured life ; pass some few years, Thy flowering Spring, thy Summer's ardent strength, Thy sober Autumn fading into age, And pale concluding Winter comes at last, And shuts the scene.
Σελίδα 187 - Better dwell in the midst of alarms Than reign in this horrible place. 1 am out of humanity's reach, I must finish my journey alone, Never hear the sweet music of speech, I start at the sound of my own. The beasts that roam over the plain, My form with indifference see, They are so unacquainted with man, Their tameness is shocking to me.
Σελίδα 399 - O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low? Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils, Shrunk to this little measure?