What I Saw on the West Coast of South and North America, and at the Hawaiian IslandsD. Appleton, 1865 - 632 Seiten |
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... walls , which serve as venti- lators to the rooms . Most of the houses are furnished , also , with niches in front for porous jars , in which water is kept pleasantly cool by constant evaporation . The luxury of Northern ice is only to ...
... walls , which serve as venti- lators to the rooms . Most of the houses are furnished , also , with niches in front for porous jars , in which water is kept pleasantly cool by constant evaporation . The luxury of Northern ice is only to ...
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... walls , noble columns and pilasters , and superb arches , standing like mournful monuments of departed grandeur ; with luxuriant nature draping with eternal verdure these mementoes of the past , hanging her graceful festoons from ...
... walls , noble columns and pilasters , and superb arches , standing like mournful monuments of departed grandeur ; with luxuriant nature draping with eternal verdure these mementoes of the past , hanging her graceful festoons from ...
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... walls , the silent soul , may find ; But oh , thou solemn sea , and mournful wind , Take up the burden of our elder days ! Amen ! Our hearts are hushed , we frame again No other gospel of fresh hopes in store , But weary of all tempests ...
... walls , the silent soul , may find ; But oh , thou solemn sea , and mournful wind , Take up the burden of our elder days ! Amen ! Our hearts are hushed , we frame again No other gospel of fresh hopes in store , But weary of all tempests ...
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... wall they are gradually bowing to time and tempest ; and another century will not have passed , ere the ceaseless assaults of the sea , from whose rocky foundations was obtained the material of which wall and towers were in part built ...
... wall they are gradually bowing to time and tempest ; and another century will not have passed , ere the ceaseless assaults of the sea , from whose rocky foundations was obtained the material of which wall and towers were in part built ...
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... wall both land and seaward , erected when modern Panama was founded in the year 1670 , in its present site , by special order of the king of Spain , to protect this depot of colonial treasures from the marauders who had plundered and ...
... wall both land and seaward , erected when modern Panama was founded in the year 1670 , in its present site , by special order of the king of Spain , to protect this depot of colonial treasures from the marauders who had plundered and ...
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What I Saw on the West Coast of South and North America, and at the Hawaiian ... Henry Willis Baxley Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2020 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 618 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Seite 38 - In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces are crumbling to the shore, And music meets not always now the ear : Those days are gone — but beauty still is here. States fall, arts fade — but nature doth not die, Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy...
Seite 545 - For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
Seite 62 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind?
Seite 144 - Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal ? Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege...
Seite 49 - Defend us thy humble servants in all assaults of our enemies that we, surely trusting in thy defence may not fear the power of any adversaries, through the might of Jesus Christ our Lord.
Seite 392 - The morn is up again, the dewy morn, With breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom, Laughing the clouds away with playful scorn, And living as if earth contain'd no tomb, — And glowing into day...
Seite 213 - Wondrous truths, and manifold as wondrous, God hath written in those stars above ; But not less in the bright flowerets under us Stands the revelation of His love.
Seite 216 - O'er all the enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been the glow, The life, the sparkling from below Fair gardens, shining streams, with ranks Of golden melons on their banks, More golden where the sunlight falls ; — Gay lizards...
Seite 482 - Simple, erect, severe, austere, sublime — Shrine of all saints and temple of all gods, From Jove to Jesus — spared and blest by time; Looking tranquillity, while falls or nods Arch, empire, each thing round thee, and man plods His way through thorns to ashes — glorious dome ! Shalt thou not last? Time's scythe and tyrants' rods Shiver upon thee — sanctuary and home Of art and piety — Pantheon ! — pride of Rome ! CXLVII.