Chambers's Information for the People, Band 2J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1857 |
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... passing a wild life in desert places , the dog , distributed over the whole civilised world , and subjected to a great variety of conditions , has passed into numberless varieties of form , colour , and disposition . It appears ...
... passing a wild life in desert places , the dog , distributed over the whole civilised world , and subjected to a great variety of conditions , has passed into numberless varieties of form , colour , and disposition . It appears ...
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... passed from one people to another , in the course of commerce or other intercourse . Of these , however , it may be said that they are indestructible possessions of all nations . Tribes and families sepa- rated from each other have been ...
... passed from one people to another , in the course of commerce or other intercourse . Of these , however , it may be said that they are indestructible possessions of all nations . Tribes and families sepa- rated from each other have been ...
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... passed through the hands of various masters , the bulk of the people are still the same as in very remote times . Rome , and the Papal states , yet show a people of exactly the same type of visage with the ancient Romans , as ...
... passed through the hands of various masters , the bulk of the people are still the same as in very remote times . Rome , and the Papal states , yet show a people of exactly the same type of visage with the ancient Romans , as ...
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... passing into a vowel is a passing from a forced to a free posture of the parts of the mouth . But as these letters can be sounded with more or less difficulty by them- selves , a number of them have been called semivowels , or we might ...
... passing into a vowel is a passing from a forced to a free posture of the parts of the mouth . But as these letters can be sounded with more or less difficulty by them- selves , a number of them have been called semivowels , or we might ...
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... passed , there was one which ap- peared particularly worthy of attention : this was an island situated not far from the mainland , and called the Utopia , from an old chief of the name of Utopus . The island was about five hundred miles ...
... passed , there was one which ap- peared particularly worthy of attention : this was an island situated not far from the mainland , and called the Utopia , from an old chief of the name of Utopus . The island was about five hundred miles ...
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Seite 26 - O for a beaker full of the warm South, Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene...
Seite 229 - In all her length far winding lay, With promontory, creek, and bay, And islands that, empurpled bright, Floated amid the livelier light ; And mountains, that like giants stand, To sentinel enchanted land.
Seite 232 - The Cypress and her spire; —Of flowers that with one scarlet gleam Cover a hundred leagues, and seem To set the hills on fire. The Youth of green savannahs spake, And many an endless, endless lake, With all its fairy crowds Of islands, that together lie As quietly as spots of sky Among the evening clouds.
Seite 115 - If these writings of the Greeks agree with the book of God, they are useless, and need not be preserved ; if they disagree, they are pernicious, and ought to be destroyed.
Seite 75 - They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war : they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.
Seite 211 - England, that loved and esteemed his own country : 'twas in reply to some of the company that were reviling our climate, and extolling those of Italy and Spain, or at least of France : he said, he thought that was the best climate, where he could be abroad in the air with pleasure, or at least without trouble and inconvenience, the most days of the year, and the most hours of the day ; and this he thought he could be in England, more than in any country he knew of in Europe.
Seite 75 - Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
Seite 120 - A general consternation seized mankind; many relinquished their possessions, and, abandoning their friends and families, hurried with precipitation to the Holy Land, where they imagined that Christ would quickly appear to judge the world...
Seite 74 - O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, thus saith the Lord God; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
Seite 170 - ... question - a question of no less importance than this: Whether our liberty be still to be secured by the laws of our forefathers, or be to lay at the absolute mercy of a part of our fellow-subjects,' collected together by means which it is not necessary for me to describe.