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Seite 136 - ... pleasures which constitute human happiness, as they are distinguished into natural and fantastical. Natural pleasures I call those, which, not depending on the fashion and caprice of any particular age or nation, are suited to human nature in general, and were intended by Providence as rewards for the using our faculties agreeably to the ends for which they were given us.
Seite 26 - Travelling in New England, for example, we arrive at a small and flourishing village. We see four new churches, proclaiming four different sects, — religion suited to all customers. These wooden churches or meeting-houses are all new, all painted white, or perhaps a bright red. Hard by is a tavern, with a green paling, as clean and as new as the churches, and there are also various smart stores and neat dwelling-houses ; — all new, all wooden, all clean, and all ornamented with slight Grecian...
Seite 64 - Ismailof, now thought proper to mortify him, by making him remain some time in this particular posture. The proud Russian was indignant at this treatment, and gave unequivocal signs of resentment by certain motions of his mouth, and by turning his head aside, which under such circumstances was very unseemly.
Seite 45 - THE cave of Cacahuamilpa, whose actual wonders equal the fabled descriptions of the palaces of Genii, was, until lately, known to the Indians alone, or if the Spaniards formerly knew anything about it, its existence was forgotten amongst them. But although in former days it may have been used as a place of worship, a superstitious fear prevented the more modern Indians from exploring its shining recesses, for here it was firmly believed the evil spirit had his dwelling, and in the form of a goat,...
Seite 68 - Next day he appeared and requested that for the future the Cobblers of Flanders might bear for their arms a boot with the emperor's crown upon it. That request was granted and as so moderate was his ambition the emperor bid him make another. "If...
Seite 25 - He kneels before the bleeding image of the Saviour who died for him, before the gracious form of the Virgin who intercedes for him ; but he believes that there are many Virgins, of various gifts, and possessing various degrees of miraculous power and different degrees of wealth, according to the quality and number of the diamonds and pearls with which they are endowed — one even who is the rival of the other...
Seite 25 - Column," and represents the Saviour tied to a pillar, bleeding and crowned with thorns. All this must sound very profane, but the people are so quiet, seem so devout and so much in earnest, that it appears much less so than you would believe. . . . The cross was planted here in a congenial soil, and as in the Pagan East the statues of the divinities frequently did no more than change their names from those of heathen gods to those of Christian saints, and image worship...
Seite 117 - ... narrow lanceolate figure, and radiates from a common centre, the outermost divisions being the smallest. The flowers grow singly in a pendulous position from the bosom of the leaves, are very large, white, crumpled at the edge, and have the petals very much reflexed. The stamens are very numerous, and are collected into a tube, which spreads at the top into a sort of umbrella-like head, from the midst of which arises a slender curved style, terminated by a rayed stigma. The fruit is an oblong,...
Seite 63 - Czar, he promised that his representative sholild stand uncovered before him, although in China none but condemned criminals exposed their heads bare, and should perform all the other ceremonies customary at Moscow. No sooner had we arrived at these words, than the chief mandarin instantly took off his cap before the ambassador ; and the latter being thus satisfied, promised to perform the prostrations according to Chinese custom, and also to place the letter upon the...
Seite 26 - ... there is none in its place. One revolution follows another; yet the remedy is not found. Let them beware lest half a century later, they be awakened from their delusion, and find the cathedral turned into a meeting-house, and all painted white ; the railing melted down ; the silver transformed into dollars ; the virgin's jewels sold to the highest bidder ; the floor washed, (which would do it no harm) and round the whole, a nice new wooden paling, freshly done in green — and all this performed...