Travels in Russia: &c, &c, Volúmenes1-2Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828 |
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... length , not unlike the body of a common wag- gon . The sides are made of basket - work , com- posed of twigs firmly platted , and the body supported by upright pieces of wood on each side they admit of three or four cross seats , each ...
... length , not unlike the body of a common wag- gon . The sides are made of basket - work , com- posed of twigs firmly platted , and the body supported by upright pieces of wood on each side they admit of three or four cross seats , each ...
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... length ; and it is a re- markable fact , and one which reflects credit on this public body , that there exists only a solitary instance of a member having been in bankrupt circumstances : on that event he proceeded in state to the ...
... length ; and it is a re- markable fact , and one which reflects credit on this public body , that there exists only a solitary instance of a member having been in bankrupt circumstances : on that event he proceeded in state to the ...
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... length , in a sloping position , on which the criminal is laid naked , his legs strapped at the lower corners , and his arms tied behind him at the wrists , so that by drawing the table up and down by pulleys , the knees and shoulders ...
... length , in a sloping position , on which the criminal is laid naked , his legs strapped at the lower corners , and his arms tied behind him at the wrists , so that by drawing the table up and down by pulleys , the knees and shoulders ...
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... length , although they ride on horseback . The horses are large , with long tails , and the leader is about eight feet distant from the two abreast . We travelled along a heath , and the monotonous dulness of the route was BOITZENBERG ...
... length , although they ride on horseback . The horses are large , with long tails , and the leader is about eight feet distant from the two abreast . We travelled along a heath , and the monotonous dulness of the route was BOITZENBERG ...
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... unshod , and their hoofs ragged and torn . At length after toiling along with these miserable substitutes for English horses , and passing through another dismal wood , we quitted LENZEN . - FEMALE BUTCHER . 47 the Mecklenburg territories.
... unshod , and their hoofs ragged and torn . At length after toiling along with these miserable substitutes for English horses , and passing through another dismal wood , we quitted LENZEN . - FEMALE BUTCHER . 47 the Mecklenburg territories.
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Página 116 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more...
Página 239 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Página 296 - Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; every man's work shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
Página 50 - Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
Página 180 - Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.
Página 34 - SCOTLAND! much I love thy tranquil dales ; But most on Sabbath eve, when low the sun Slants through the upland copse, 'tis my delight, Wandering, and stopping oft, to hear the song Of kindred praise arise from humble roofs...
Página 300 - May it ever be as a lamp to our feet and a light to our path.
Página 296 - Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit... will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after gods whom ye know not; and come and stand before me in this house, and say, we are delivered to do all these abominations?
Página 272 - Whereas the design of punishment is to prevent the commission of crimes, and to repair the injury that hath been done thereby to society or the individual, and it hath been found by experience, that these objects are better obtained by moderate but certain penalties, than by severe and excessive punishments. And...
Página 231 - How would it enlarge their minds, if they could acquire a sufficient knowledge of mathematics and astronomy to give them an idea of the beauty and wonders of the creation ! I am persuaded that the generality of people, and particularly fine ladies, only adore God because they are told it is proper and the fashion to go to church ; but...