Letters from an Absent Brother: Containing Some Account of the Tour Through Parts of the Netherlands, Switzerland, Northern Italy and France in the Summer of 1823, Volume 2Wilson, 1827 |
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... course , in the valley of Bagnes , by the falling of masses of ice from the Glacier of Getroz . A most enormous lake was thus formed , thirteen thousand feet long , and from one to seven hundred feet wide ; the mean depth being two ...
... course , in the valley of Bagnes , by the falling of masses of ice from the Glacier of Getroz . A most enormous lake was thus formed , thirteen thousand feet long , and from one to seven hundred feet wide ; the mean depth being two ...
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... generous animals . In the course of last year twelve thousand travellers passed some time at the Hospice . Last night there was four or five hundred per- sons who slept here . It was a double festival LETTER XII . ST . BERNARD DOGS . 23.
... generous animals . In the course of last year twelve thousand travellers passed some time at the Hospice . Last night there was four or five hundred per- sons who slept here . It was a double festival LETTER XII . ST . BERNARD DOGS . 23.
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... course ; every thing follows the guidance and authority of the prevailing taste in religion . At half - past ten this morning we went to the Cathedral , where seats were obtained for us in the gallery near the altar . We saw the whole ...
... course ; every thing follows the guidance and authority of the prevailing taste in religion . At half - past ten this morning we went to the Cathedral , where seats were obtained for us in the gallery near the altar . We saw the whole ...
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... course , that nearly every picture of this Cathedral , has , I understand , Punch and his auditory in the fore - ground ; thus the farce is kept up throughout this sacred day . And what is all this , but the ceremonies of ancient Roman ...
... course , that nearly every picture of this Cathedral , has , I understand , Punch and his auditory in the fore - ground ; thus the farce is kept up throughout this sacred day . And what is all this , but the ceremonies of ancient Roman ...
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... course all open to the heavens . The amuse- ments are foot and horse races , and naval fights ; the arena being easily filled with water , by means of sluices . We much admired the chariots 102 LETTER XIV . AMPHITHEATRE .
... course all open to the heavens . The amuse- ments are foot and horse races , and naval fights ; the arena being easily filled with water , by means of sluices . We much admired the chariots 102 LETTER XIV . AMPHITHEATRE .
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Page 292 - And he charged them that they should tell no man : but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it; 37 And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well : he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
Page 140 - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Page 227 - At the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century...
Page 43 - O Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry come unto Thee.
Page 98 - And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
Page 98 - Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.
Page 165 - The present is a fleeting moment, the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last : but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular, still allow about fifteen years.
Page 165 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame.
Page 302 - Mass there is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead : and that in the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly, really, and substantially the Body and Blood, together with the Soul and Divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ : and that there is made a conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the Body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the Blood ; which conversion the Catholic Church calls Transubstantiation.
Page 144 - I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who will judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom...