New voyages and travels: originals and translations [ed. by sir R. Phillips].1823 |
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... hundred rabbits running about in one meadow . " He speaks , perhaps , in just terms , of what was a great fault in our national character then , and is even too much so now our fondness for drinking . " The English are great drunkards ...
... hundred rabbits running about in one meadow . " He speaks , perhaps , in just terms , of what was a great fault in our national character then , and is even too much so now our fondness for drinking . " The English are great drunkards ...
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... hundred rabbits running about in one meadow . " He speaks , perhaps , in just terms , of what was a great fault in our national character then , and is even too much so now our fondness for drinking . " The English are great drunkards ...
... hundred rabbits running about in one meadow . " He speaks , perhaps , in just terms , of what was a great fault in our national character then , and is even too much so now our fondness for drinking . " The English are great drunkards ...
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... hundred years : a Swedish General with his Aid - de - Camp , and a Swedish Coun- tess , since the period of the thirty years ' war ; the remains of an unfortunate tiler , together with similar mummies of dead cats , birds , & c . & c ...
... hundred years : a Swedish General with his Aid - de - Camp , and a Swedish Coun- tess , since the period of the thirty years ' war ; the remains of an unfortunate tiler , together with similar mummies of dead cats , birds , & c . & c ...
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... hundred fold . The present Reider- land , celebrated for the particular abundance of its vegetation , for its Groden and Polder , is only a remaining part of the once so important tract of country which connected East Friesland with ...
... hundred fold . The present Reider- land , celebrated for the particular abundance of its vegetation , for its Groden and Polder , is only a remaining part of the once so important tract of country which connected East Friesland with ...
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... hundred thousands of people who are continually moving up and down in this vast panorama . The endless stream of people who , in following their business , particularly in the principal streets , are every where moving , like the ebb ...
... hundred thousands of people who are continually moving up and down in this vast panorama . The endless stream of people who , in following their business , particularly in the principal streets , are every where moving , like the ebb ...
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Page 66 - No flocks that range the valley free To slaughter I condemn : Taught by that power that pities me, I learn to pity them : ' But from the mountain's grassy side A guiltless feast I bring ; A scrip with herbs and fruits supplied, And water from the spring. ' Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego ; All earth-born cares are wrong : Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
Page 109 - Awake : The morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tender plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Page 16 - The Mahometans divide their religion into two general parts, faith and practice; of which the first is divided into six distinct branches : Belief in God, in his angels, in his scriptures, in his prophets, in the resurrection and final judgment, and in God's absolute decrees. The points relating to practice are, prayer, with washings, &c., alms, fasting, pilgrimage to Mecca, and circumcision.
Page 108 - Canighul, decorated with innumerable tents and pavilions, which displayed the luxury of a great city and the spoils of a victorious camp. Whole forests were cut down to supply fuel for the kitchens ; the plain was spread with pyramids of meat, and vases of every liquor, to which thousands of guests were courteously invited...
Page 96 - W]K> sent a horse for Scott to ride upon, and 27 dollars to buy provisions. After recruiting himself for three days longer, Scott, accompanied by the Moor, set off, and arrived safe at Mogador in five days, during which they travelled at the rate of at least thirty miles per day. As the place where Scott encountered the Moor is not above a mile and a half from Wadnoon, that place may be considered as about 150 miles from Mogador. Near the Moor's house was a river as large as canals usually are in...
Page 96 - Scott by the hand, told him he was safe, led him to his house, and gave him food. He afterwards desired Scott to write to the English Consul at Mogador ; and Scott did so. This man, leaving Scott under the care of his brother and his son, set off with the letter ; and after an absence of eight days, returned with a letter from William Willshire, Esq.