Narrative of an Excursion to the Mountains of Piemont, in the Year MDCCCXXIII: And Researches Among the Vaudois, Or WaldensesC. and J. Rivington, 1826 - 297 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 57
Page xvii
... Poor Maria - Village near Moulins - Landscape - Appear- ance of plenty - Palisse - French traveller - Road from Palisse to Lyons - Lyons - Rousseau - Les Etroits - Li- brary of Lyons - Caligula's edict - Charitable Institutions at Lyons ...
... Poor Maria - Village near Moulins - Landscape - Appear- ance of plenty - Palisse - French traveller - Road from Palisse to Lyons - Lyons - Rousseau - Les Etroits - Li- brary of Lyons - Caligula's edict - Charitable Institutions at Lyons ...
Page 1
... Poor Maria -Village near Moulins - Landscape - Appearance of Plenty— Palisse - French traveller - Road from Palisse to Lyons- Lyons - Rousseau - Les Etroits - Library of Lyons - Caligula's edict - Charitable Institutions at Lyons ...
... Poor Maria -Village near Moulins - Landscape - Appearance of Plenty— Palisse - French traveller - Road from Palisse to Lyons- Lyons - Rousseau - Les Etroits - Library of Lyons - Caligula's edict - Charitable Institutions at Lyons ...
Page 12
... poor Maria . There are so many localities in Sterne's tale of Maria , that my young companions thought it a fair field of research , and away we went to follow him through his descriptions . " When we had got within half a league of ...
... poor Maria . There are so many localities in Sterne's tale of Maria , that my young companions thought it a fair field of research , and away we went to follow him through his descriptions . " When we had got within half a league of ...
Page 22
... poor people of Lyons , is of great antiquity . Among all sects that either are , or have been , there is none more dangerous to the Church , than that of the Leonists , and that for three reasons : the first is , be- cause it is the ...
... poor people of Lyons , is of great antiquity . Among all sects that either are , or have been , there is none more dangerous to the Church , than that of the Leonists , and that for three reasons : the first is , be- cause it is the ...
Page 33
... poor creatures snatched at the small- est alms , left the most painful impressions upon our minds . Sublime as the scenery may be , it is impossible to enjoy it , where the occupiers of the soil are as miserable as they are here ; and ...
... poor creatures snatched at the small- est alms , left the most painful impressions upon our minds . Sublime as the scenery may be , it is impossible to enjoy it , where the occupiers of the soil are as miserable as they are here ; and ...
Other editions - View all
Narrative of an Excursion to the Mountains of Piemont, and Researches Among ... William Stephen Gilly No preview available - 2022 |
Narrative of an Excursion to the Mountains of Piemont, and Researches Among ... William Stephen Gilly No preview available - 2015 |
Common terms and phrases
Alpine Alps ancient Angrogna Answ APPENDIX army Arnaud atque Bert Bishop Bobbio character Christ Christian clergy Clusone commanded Cottian Alps Count Wratislaw Cromwell doctrine Duke of Savoy edict enemy England faith favour French hath Henri Arnaud holy honour hundred inhabitants King of France King of Sardinia late Leger letter Lord Lyons majesty ment ministers Morland Mount Cenis mountains never obliged occasion parish passed pastor Pelice pension Perosa persecution persons Peter Waldo Peyrani Pianezza Piemontese Pignerol Pinerolo Pomaretto poor Popish Prali prayer present prince Protestant qu'il received religion road rock Roman Catholic Rora royal highness San Giovanni San Martino scenery Second Edition seen shew snow spot subjects suffered thing three valleys tion took Torre torrent troops Turin vale Vallées valley of Luzerna valleys of Piemont Vaudois Vertu vestra Victor Amadeus village Villaro Waldenses Waldensian church
Popular passages
Page lxxii - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
Page 212 - They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Page lxviii - Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious : and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
Page 238 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 147 - And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
Page 238 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Page 146 - And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Page lxxi - This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Page 134 - ... la nature semblait encore prendre plaisir à s'y mettre en opposition avec elle-même, tant on la trouvait différente en un même lieu sous divers aspects. Au levant les fleurs du printemps, au midi les fruits de l'automne, au nord les glaces de l'hiver...
Page 238 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.