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Page 88 - Mrs., or rather Miss Manley, for she was never married, is best known as the authoress of the ' New Atalantis,' a scandalous work, which she published at the end of the seventeenth or the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Page 55 - The Lord hath made good his word, which he pronounced against us, to bring upon us great plagues, such as never happened under the whole heaven, as it came to pass in Jerusalem, according, to the things that were written in the law of Moses, that a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh of his own daughter.
Page 144 - Exactly in front of the niche the rock descended perpendicularly to an immense depth. At the back was another steep descent. Some fragments of rock formed a kind of bridge between the larger masses, but these were placed too high to be accessible to the little ones, and could only be available for their mother. The hunter rejoiced as he contemplated this position, and pressed upon the animals, whose escape seemed impossible. When the old one caught sight of him, and measured with a glance the...
Page 33 - Some of our young ladies, who think they have attained no mean proficiency in the art of embroidery, ought to come to Prague for the sake of looking at the work of the last princess of the house of Przemsyl. It is a piece of white linen, upon which are worked with threads of gold the most beautiful and delicate flowers and arabesques. The pattern is precisely the same on each side, and withal so accurate, and yet so fanciful, that one is never tired of admiring it. The pattern, moreover, is constantly...
Page 110 - ... advantage of eddies and a more gentle current. Thus then these wing dams, which are all extended more or less into the river, and some of them to the main channel, where no alternative is left for the boats passing up the river...
Page 55 - Therefore the Lord hath made good his word, which he pronounced against us, and against our judges that judged Israel, and against our kings, and against our princes, and against the men of Israel and Juda...
Page 219 - ... discover and expose offences of this description. Under these circumstances it cannot be but Mr. von Kossut should have many enemies, but he counts a far greater number of friends, the whole public of Hungary being on his side, and he is the favourite and the political hero of the day. His Hirlap is the oracle on all occasions, and during my stay in Pesth, whenever any public matter was discussed, I continually heard the eager inquiry, ' What does Kossut say of it ?' ' I looked with much interest...
Page 144 - ... was to be won. She then leaped down again to her little ones, and seemed to encourage them to attempt the leap. In vain the little creatures sprang and wounded their foreheads against the rocks that were too high for them, and in vain the mother repeated again and again her firm and graceful leap to show them the way. All this was the work of a few minutes, whilst the hunter had again advanced some steps nearer. He was just preparing to make the last effort when the following picture, which was...
Page 148 - ... on, and the pictorial announcements of estates for sale by lottery, when all the letters are composed of pictures of castles and rural views, and where every million is represented entwined with the elegant flowery wreath of hope, are really masterpieces in a psychological as in a xylographic point of view.
Page 60 - I am ready to give my testimony most unreservedly, and many an enraptured traveller has left us his books as living witnesses to the loveliness of the grandmothers and great-grandmothers of the present generation. The old chronicler, Hammerschmidt, and his contemporaries, dwell with equal pleasure on the sweet faces that smiled upon them in their days, and the picture-gallery of many a Bohemian castle is there to testify to the truth of their statements. One witness...