American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 42Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, John Holmes Agnew, Kinahan Cornwallis 1853 |
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... feet in height , constructed of solid gold and silver , most exquisitely wrought , and inlaid with diamonds and precious stones . I was also shown the magnificent ornaments of the Virgin of the Sagra- rio , or the Black Virgin . This ...
... feet in height , constructed of solid gold and silver , most exquisitely wrought , and inlaid with diamonds and precious stones . I was also shown the magnificent ornaments of the Virgin of the Sagra- rio , or the Black Virgin . This ...
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... feet and hands . To keep the body comfortable , one is obliged to adopt the custom of the country , and sit all day enveloped in a huge cloak . Yet , uncomfortable as I found Toledo , I looked forward with regret to the day of my ...
... feet and hands . To keep the body comfortable , one is obliged to adopt the custom of the country , and sit all day enveloped in a huge cloak . Yet , uncomfortable as I found Toledo , I looked forward with regret to the day of my ...
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... feet from the ground , of a pressure that was crushing them , of a power that was irresistibly sucking them toward the centre of the earth . These sensations were known to me only by observation . I did not understand them , and I do ...
... feet from the ground , of a pressure that was crushing them , of a power that was irresistibly sucking them toward the centre of the earth . These sensations were known to me only by observation . I did not understand them , and I do ...
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... feet ; it was firm , solid as adamant . Walking out upon it , I looked down , down into its crystal depths . The rays of the sun , gliding into its bosom , returned to my eye in all the hues of the rainbow , and all the mighty ocean ...
... feet ; it was firm , solid as adamant . Walking out upon it , I looked down , down into its crystal depths . The rays of the sun , gliding into its bosom , returned to my eye in all the hues of the rainbow , and all the mighty ocean ...
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... feet , but I moved in the pure ether like a spirit . The novelty of my situation for a time wrapped me in astonishment : alone , unsupported , floating out in that vague , indefinable space I had longed all my life to fathom . I had ...
... feet , but I moved in the pure ether like a spirit . The novelty of my situation for a time wrapped me in astonishment : alone , unsupported , floating out in that vague , indefinable space I had longed all my life to fathom . I had ...
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