Letters from Europe: During a Tour Through Switzerland and Italy, in the Years 1801 and 1802, Band 1author, 1805 |
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... Devotion - Lotteries - Annual Exhibitions - In- different performance of Religious ceremonies - Description of the Mass - Singing before the Madonnas . LETTER LETTER XVIII . p . 477 . Apostolical Visitation — xiv . CONTENTS .
... Devotion - Lotteries - Annual Exhibitions - In- different performance of Religious ceremonies - Description of the Mass - Singing before the Madonnas . LETTER LETTER XVIII . p . 477 . Apostolical Visitation — xiv . CONTENTS .
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... part of Switzerland is hilly , but not mountainous - cultivated , but not fer- tile - inhabited , but not populous ; and exhibits nothing more remarkable to a Foreign Foreign eye than the Beggars idling up- on the road 28 AMERICAN LETTERS.
... part of Switzerland is hilly , but not mountainous - cultivated , but not fer- tile - inhabited , but not populous ; and exhibits nothing more remarkable to a Foreign Foreign eye than the Beggars idling up- on the road 28 AMERICAN LETTERS.
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... , and the current then exhibits a rumbling torrent of terrific sublimity . We crossed the river in a boat , a little below the fall , admiring the rainbow in its spray ; spray ; and ascended to the castle of Lauffen , FROM EUROPE . 37.
... , and the current then exhibits a rumbling torrent of terrific sublimity . We crossed the river in a boat , a little below the fall , admiring the rainbow in its spray ; spray ; and ascended to the castle of Lauffen , FROM EUROPE . 37.
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... their leisure , in a pedes- trian tour through the Lesser Cantons , so singularly isolated from the rest of the world by adamantine ridges . The The cultivated tracts of the heart of Switzerland exhibit little 42 AMERICAN LETTERS.
... their leisure , in a pedes- trian tour through the Lesser Cantons , so singularly isolated from the rest of the world by adamantine ridges . The The cultivated tracts of the heart of Switzerland exhibit little 42 AMERICAN LETTERS.
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... exhibit little distinctive cha- racter , beyond the peculiarly sheltered look of broad thatched roofs , projecting over low walls , and parsimoniously in- cluding , under one inclosure , house , barn and stable . We therefore took Coach ...
... exhibit little distinctive cha- racter , beyond the peculiarly sheltered look of broad thatched roofs , projecting over low walls , and parsimoniously in- cluding , under one inclosure , house , barn and stable . We therefore took Coach ...
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Altar ancient Antiquity Apartments Appian Arcades Arch Arch of Trajan ascend Baiocc Bas Reliefs Baths of Caracalla Baths of Titus beautiful bronze Cæsar Cardinal Ceiling celebrated ceremony Chamber Chapel Christ Christian Church Coach Colonnade Columns Corridor Court cross descend Dome Domenichino door Edifice Egyptian elevation Emperor Entablature erected exhibits feet diameter fifty feet French Gallery gate Guercino Hall hand head Holy hundred feet Imperial inscriptions Italian Italy Julius Cæsar kneeling lake magnificent ment Michael Angelo miles modern mosaic mountain Nave Obelisk ornamented painted Painter Palace Papal Paul pavement Peter's Pietro da Cortona Pius Pius VI Pontifical Pope Portico Priest Prince Raphael richly Roman Rome Rotunda Saint Scipio Sculpture seen side Sixtus square Stair-case Statues stone Story streets sublimity supported surrounded Switzerland Temple ther thousand tion tomb town twenty Tyber Unterwalden vault venerable Villa Adriana village Virgin walls Zurich
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 228 - Therefore thus saith the LORD God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Seite 436 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Seite 212 - A woman clothed with the sun, having the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars.
Seite 349 - And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost' and altogetherv such as I am, except these bonds.
Seite 173 - For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
Seite 208 - Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona ; for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Seite 184 - Yet hear, alas ! this mournful truth, Nor hear it with a frown ; — Thou canst not make the tea so fast As I can gulp it down.
Seite 109 - Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms ; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more.
Seite 34 - Tell's exploit of shooting the apple from the head of his son at the command of the tyrant Gessler. The place where the tree stood to which his son was bound, and on which Gessler's hat was placed, is covered by a handsome fountain.
Seite 46 - ... to posterity in the pages of history. Indeed, his name would never have been heard of had it not been for the generous allusion made to him by Vancouver, in his narrative published six years afterwards.