Journal of a Tour and Residence in Great Britain, During the Years 1810 and 1811, Volume 1J. Ballantyne and Company, 1817 - 530 pages |
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Page 6
... cultivated . The total absence of wood is particularly striking to us , who have just arrived from a world of forests . It gives , however , a vastness to the prospect , and opens distances of great beauty ; hills behind hills , clothed ...
... cultivated . The total absence of wood is particularly striking to us , who have just arrived from a world of forests . It gives , however , a vastness to the prospect , and opens distances of great beauty ; hills behind hills , clothed ...
Page 14
... cultivation . The cathedral is a venerable pile , built in the year 900 , ( my information comes from the old woman who shewed it ) . Outside it appeared to me less light and airy than Gothic architecture generally is , according to my ...
... cultivation . The cathedral is a venerable pile , built in the year 900 , ( my information comes from the old woman who shewed it ) . Outside it appeared to me less light and airy than Gothic architecture generally is , according to my ...
Page 108
... cultivated in England at the time this building was erected , ( 1680 , ) by the first Duke of Mon- tagu . The museum owes its origin to the collec- tion of Sir Hans Sloane , bequeathed to Parlia- ment , on condition that his family ...
... cultivated in England at the time this building was erected , ( 1680 , ) by the first Duke of Mon- tagu . The museum owes its origin to the collec- tion of Sir Hans Sloane , bequeathed to Parlia- ment , on condition that his family ...
Page 176
... cultivated age , and rules in France with more force than anywhere else , not the less incurred , however , in many respects , for being so sedulously avoided . " On est honteux des affections fortes devant les ames légères ; l ...
... cultivated age , and rules in France with more force than anywhere else , not the less incurred , however , in many respects , for being so sedulously avoided . " On est honteux des affections fortes devant les ames légères ; l ...
Page 206
... cultivated , but cannot be supplied when wanting , and of which it would be as much in vain to attempt giving an idea to those who have it not , as of colours to a blind man . This sense , like the others , only opens an avenue to that ...
... cultivated , but cannot be supplied when wanting , and of which it would be as much in vain to attempt giving an idea to those who have it not , as of colours to a blind man . This sense , like the others , only opens an avenue to that ...
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