New voyages and travels: originals and translations [ed. by sir R. Phillips].1823 |
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... receiving from England . Thus my inclination towards every thing which came across the channel found much food in the years I ... received coolly , it was necessary to be a perfect master of the language --- 4 Niemeyer's Travels in Germany ,
... receiving from England . Thus my inclination towards every thing which came across the channel found much food in the years I ... received coolly , it was necessary to be a perfect master of the language --- 4 Niemeyer's Travels in Germany ,
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... received new life in the dread- ful years of war , in which the sight of the endless misery of the thousands who had gained the victory by their death and wounds , on the neighbouring plains of battle around Leipsic , scarce left us the ...
... received new life in the dread- ful years of war , in which the sight of the endless misery of the thousands who had gained the victory by their death and wounds , on the neighbouring plains of battle around Leipsic , scarce left us the ...
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... received us in uniform . As the packet generally , unless there is a total want of wind , goes out in the afternoon , no time is to be lost in getting passports reviewed at the neighbouring office , and settling for the passage , which ...
... received us in uniform . As the packet generally , unless there is a total want of wind , goes out in the afternoon , no time is to be lost in getting passports reviewed at the neighbouring office , and settling for the passage , which ...
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... received from Switzerland and France , upon the same subject , and which countries he had shortly before travelled through . I was now formally addressed , and request- ed by Dr. Steinkopf , Secretary for the Society in Foreign parts ...
... received from Switzerland and France , upon the same subject , and which countries he had shortly before travelled through . I was now formally addressed , and request- ed by Dr. Steinkopf , Secretary for the Society in Foreign parts ...
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... in and out of Britain . It would be necessary to have read the annual accounts which have appeared upon the subject , and , together with the Sum- mary Review , at the same time to have received the Netherlands , and England . 37.
... in and out of Britain . It would be necessary to have read the annual accounts which have appeared upon the subject , and , together with the Sum- mary Review , at the same time to have received the Netherlands , and England . 37.
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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.