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... walls and old - fashioned gates , give a remarkably picturesque appearance to the place . Above it rises the fortress called Mun- noth Castle ; its walls are of great thickness , and it is undermined with subterranean passages . The ...
... walls and old - fashioned gates , give a remarkably picturesque appearance to the place . Above it rises the fortress called Mun- noth Castle ; its walls are of great thickness , and it is undermined with subterranean passages . The ...
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... walls , and containing the remains of a Castle ( Der Grafen- burg ) . In the neighbourhood , to the north - east , rises the Bach- tel , a mountain 3675 ft . high . SCHMERIKON ( 27 miles ) , at the eastern end of the lake , near which ...
... walls , and containing the remains of a Castle ( Der Grafen- burg ) . In the neighbourhood , to the north - east , rises the Bach- tel , a mountain 3675 ft . high . SCHMERIKON ( 27 miles ) , at the eastern end of the lake , near which ...
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... walls of the chasm are scarcely ever vertical in their whole depth , but inclined one over the other , at a considerable angle . In some places the one wall overhangs the other so much that the sky above it is entirely excluded , and ...
... walls of the chasm are scarcely ever vertical in their whole depth , but inclined one over the other , at a considerable angle . In some places the one wall overhangs the other so much that the sky above it is entirely excluded , and ...
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... walls rise almost per- pendicularly on both sides of the gorge to a giddy height . About half an hour's walk further is GONDO , the last Valaisan village . Near the chapel , ten minutes beyond Gondo , is the Italian frontier , marked by ...
... walls rise almost per- pendicularly on both sides of the gorge to a giddy height . About half an hour's walk further is GONDO , the last Valaisan village . Near the chapel , ten minutes beyond Gondo , is the Italian frontier , marked by ...
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... wall , near the tower . A pillar is shown here which was originally set up on the crest of the St Bernard Pass to the ... walls of the Hospice to the height of 40 ft .; but it is said that the severest cold re- corded here was only 29 ...
... wall , near the tower . A pillar is shown here which was originally set up on the crest of the St Bernard Pass to the ... walls of the Hospice to the height of 40 ft .; but it is said that the severest cold re- corded here was only 29 ...
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Popular passages
Page 463 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. 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, 1 Memoirs, p. 166. and all nature was silent.
Page 547 - IN the valley of the Pegnitz, where across broad meadow-lands Rise the blue Franconian mountains, Nuremberg, the ancient, stands. Quaint old town of toil and traffic, quaint old town of art and song, Memories haunt thy pointed gables, like the rooks that round them throng...
Page 888 - And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin's name was Mary.
Page 884 - And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai; 4 Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.
Page 878 - And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath; the same is Bethlehem.
Page 888 - And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast him down headlong.
Page 883 - And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land ; neither had the children of Israel manna any more ; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
Page 896 - And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus; and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven; and he fell to the earth and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
Page 548 - Everywhere I see around me rise the wondrous world of Art : Fountains wrought with richest sculpture standing in the common mart; And above cathedral doorways saints and bishops carved in stone, By a former age commissioned as apostles to our own. In the church of sainted Sebald sleeps enshrined his holy dust...
Page 536 - By Coblentz, on a rise of gentle ground, There is a small and simple pyramid, Crowning the summit of the verdant mound ; Beneath its base are heroes...