History of the Azores, or. Western islands [signed T.A.].Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1813 - 8 pages |
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abound advantage Alagoa appearance atmosphere attention Azoreans Azores beautiful Boeotia Caldeiras Capt cause caverns character church circumstances climate colour cone considerable convent corn crater cultivated dæmons described distant dreadful earth earthquakes effect employed Esperanza extraordinary father Fayal feet fire formed Furnas genius Graciosa happy harbour heart hemp imagination improvement inhabitants island kind lakes land Laurino lava lavatic LETTER Lisbon lovers manners and principles MICHAEL'S CONTINUED miles mind monks mountains nature never numerous nuns object observed orange Padre Guardian pass perceived Pico de Fer plants Ponta del Gada Porto Fermoza Portugal Portuguese possess present priest produce racter religion remark Ribeira Ribeira Grande Ribeira Seca rise Saint George Saint Michael's scene scoriæ seat seen soil spirit substance subterraneous sulphur summit surface Tercera tion TOUR THROUGH ST town valley vapour vegetable veil vertex vessels Villa Franca volcanic eruptions Western Isles
Popular passages
Page 147 - The black stormy clouds passing swiftly over, and at times covering the whole or a part of, the bright column of fire, at other times clearing away, and giving a full view of it, with the various tints produced by its reverberated light on the white clouds above, in contrast with the pale flashes of forked lightning that attended the tropea, formed such a scene as no power of art can ever express.
Page 262 - Irishman is by nature bold, and he confides; it is tender, and he loves; it is generous, and he gives; it is social, and he is hospitable. This sacrilegious intruder has profaned the religion of that sacred altar so elevated in our worship, so precious to our devotion: and it is our privilege to avenge the crime. You must either pull down the altar, and abolish the worship; or you must preserve its sanctity undebased.
Page 148 - Ottaiano, whilst the storm was at its height, was surprised to find the drops of rain scald his face and hands — a phenomenon probably occasioned by the clouds having acquired a great degree of heat in passing through the above-mentioned column of fire.
Page 197 - Chardin, one of those travellers who reason and investigate, goes still further than Fontenelle, when speaking of Persia. "The temperature of warm climates," says he, "enervates the mind as well as the body, and dissipates that fire which the imagination requires for invention. In such climates men are incapable of the long studies and intense application which are necessary to the production of first-rate works in the liberal and mechanic arts,
Page 279 - In proportion to the humility of our submission to its rule do we rise into some faint emulation of that ineffable and presiding divinity, whose characteristic attribute it is to be coerced and bound by the inexorable laws of its own nature, so as to be all-wise and all-just from necessity, rather than election. You have seen it, in the learned advocate who has preceded me, most peculiarly and strikingly illustrated. You have seen even his great talents, perhaps the first in any country, languishing...
Page 65 - From the windows the eye wanders over the sea that separates Scotland from Norway, and when the winds beat with violence, must enjoy all the terrific grandeur of the tempestuous ocean. I would not for my amusement...
Page 155 - Booty, my next door neighbour ;" but he said he did not know the other, who ran behind ; he was in black clothes, and the foremost was in grey : then captain Barnaby desired all of us to take an account of the time, and...
Page 208 - For though the sum total of a nation's happiness must arise, and be estimated from the manners and principles of the whole ; yet the manners and principles of those who lead, not of those who are led ; of those who govern, not of those who are governed ; of those, in short, who make laws, or execute them, will ever determine the strength or weakness, and, therefore, the continuance or dissolution of a state.
Page 155 - ... into the flames of fire, and there was a great noise which greatly affrighted us all, for we none of us ever saw or heard the like before. Captain Barnaby said he was certain it was old...
Page 29 - In the early part of the year 1811, a most awful explosion of moke and flame issued from the sea, at the distance of half a league from the shore, at the western end of the island. From the depth of about forty fathoms in the ocean, issued smoke, fire, cinders, ashes, and stones of an immense size.