Prose, Band 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824 |
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... person , never before revealed to mortal eye . His figure might have been fashioned in mockery of the human form ; his stature reached the clouds , and his shadow darkened the fairest provinces of the globe . He had two heads , which ...
... person , never before revealed to mortal eye . His figure might have been fashioned in mockery of the human form ; his stature reached the clouds , and his shadow darkened the fairest provinces of the globe . He had two heads , which ...
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... person and performances with fresh horror at every look , grew so gentle , intellectual , and graceful , in manners , in aspect , and in form , that the present witness ( though slow to believe any good of him ) became as fully ...
... person and performances with fresh horror at every look , grew so gentle , intellectual , and graceful , in manners , in aspect , and in form , that the present witness ( though slow to believe any good of him ) became as fully ...
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... person of reasonable capacity to slip through sideways , provided no other equally reason- able being were trying to pass , at the same time , in the opposite direction . The ladies were evidently in huge consternation , and not only ...
... person of reasonable capacity to slip through sideways , provided no other equally reason- able being were trying to pass , at the same time , in the opposite direction . The ladies were evidently in huge consternation , and not only ...
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... persons whom you have em- ployed in decorating a bauble , only valuable because you yourself had the misfortune to stumble upon it . Till this morning , I had not before ( on my present visit ) entered into the spirit of pebble ...
... persons whom you have em- ployed in decorating a bauble , only valuable because you yourself had the misfortune to stumble upon it . Till this morning , I had not before ( on my present visit ) entered into the spirit of pebble ...
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... person walking on the shore , who has picked up here and there a more curious shell , or a brighter pebble than his companions , while the great ocean of undiscovered truth lies before me . " Quoting from memory , I find that I have ...
... person walking on the shore , who has picked up here and there a more curious shell , or a brighter pebble than his companions , while the great ocean of undiscovered truth lies before me . " Quoting from memory , I find that I have ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Africa age of reason amidst angels arrived beautiful beneath blind blood boards body Bushmen called Cape Town character Christian church church-yard colony colour crew darkness dead death Driffield earth eternity everlasting face Falsgrave fear feel gentleman George George Collier glen glory grave grew ground Guadaloupe Guy Mannering hand happen Harrogate hath head heard heart heaven High Harrogate Holy Inquisition honour hope Hottentots hour human imagination inhabitants Kloof knew kraal labour ladies last day latter light lived look Lord manner Market Weighton Matlock melan mind moon morning multitude nations Negroes neighbours never night ocean passed peace poor present Price racter reader recollected Rodeur Scarborough seemed ship side slave-trade slaves sleep soon soul South Africa spirit thing thought thousand tide tion truth turned vessel voice walked wilderness words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 250 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Seite 278 - I am the Resurrection, and the Life : he that believeth on Me, though he were dead, yet shall he live : and whosoever liveth and believeth in
Seite 243 - Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave them rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling their hearts with food and gladness.
Seite 279 - Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
Seite 86 - Congress, to induce all the Powers of Christendom to decree the abolition of the Slave Trade, so that the said Trade shall cease universally, as it shall cease definitively, under any circumstances, on the part of the French Government, in the course of five years ; and that, during the said period, no Slave Merchant shall import or sell Slaves, except in the Colonies of the State of which he is a Subject.
Seite 284 - Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.
Seite 103 - ... their native land), threw themselves into the sea, locked in each other's arms. The disease, which had spread itself so rapidly and frightfully among the Africans, soon began to infect all on board.