Letters from Europe: During a Tour Through Switzerland and Italy, in the Years 1801 and 1802, Band 1author, 1805 |
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... half the money , rather than purchase justice at the expense of ease . With heavy hearts we set out again next morning , anticipating in perspect- ive the pains and penalties of two hun- dred miles to come . But we were now agreeably ...
... half the money , rather than purchase justice at the expense of ease . With heavy hearts we set out again next morning , anticipating in perspect- ive the pains and penalties of two hun- dred miles to come . But we were now agreeably ...
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... half dress- ed to a little summer house which over- looks the raging torrent : but here we were impatient to be nearer , and , half running , half tumbling , down the rough descent , we mounted with all the eager- ness of curiosity a ...
... half dress- ed to a little summer house which over- looks the raging torrent : but here we were impatient to be nearer , and , half running , half tumbling , down the rough descent , we mounted with all the eager- ness of curiosity a ...
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... half asleep in our stupifying conveyance ( which was admirably calculated for the exclusion of extensive prospects ) as we traversed the vallies watered by the Reuss , the Lim- mat , and the Aar , without noticing amidst surrounding ...
... half asleep in our stupifying conveyance ( which was admirably calculated for the exclusion of extensive prospects ) as we traversed the vallies watered by the Reuss , the Lim- mat , and the Aar , without noticing amidst surrounding ...
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... Next morning we would gladly have procured a conveyance of some kind ; but nothing half so good as a Pennsyl- vania market cart was to be had in the village ; village ; and we afterward discovered , at our leisure 62 AMERICAN LETTERS.
... Next morning we would gladly have procured a conveyance of some kind ; but nothing half so good as a Pennsyl- vania market cart was to be had in the village ; village ; and we afterward discovered , at our leisure 62 AMERICAN LETTERS.
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... half way , we passed by that arm of the lake over which Lucerne displays its picturesque turrets , and saw the rays of the descending sun irradiate the vapoury clouds which perpetually hover round a stupendous peak of rocks , that rises ...
... half way , we passed by that arm of the lake over which Lucerne displays its picturesque turrets , and saw the rays of the descending sun irradiate the vapoury clouds which perpetually hover round a stupendous peak of rocks , that rises ...
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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.