Cruise of the 'Red rose', 1880 [by S. Lloyd]. |
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... buildings , but the shops and whole streets are constructed of it , while many of the footpaths are paved with a tesselated pavement of chalk converted into white limestone , presenting a marble - like appearance . The city is built ...
... buildings , but the shops and whole streets are constructed of it , while many of the footpaths are paved with a tesselated pavement of chalk converted into white limestone , presenting a marble - like appearance . The city is built ...
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... standing and looking about , while some women were sitting on planks in the centre of the building ; but in the transept one poor man , a priest , and two women , LISBON . 19 motionless , and apparently devout worshippers ,
... standing and looking about , while some women were sitting on planks in the centre of the building ; but in the transept one poor man , a priest , and two women , LISBON . 19 motionless , and apparently devout worshippers ,
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... are chiefly trained for naval service . We were much pleased with their appearance and the well ordered arrangements , and to see the old buildings used for such a good purpose . 20 LISBON . We afterwards visited the cemetery , which.
... are chiefly trained for naval service . We were much pleased with their appearance and the well ordered arrangements , and to see the old buildings used for such a good purpose . 20 LISBON . We afterwards visited the cemetery , which.
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... building is a vast amphi- theatre , open to the sky , with an arena in the centre , just after the plan of those at Rome , in the old Roman days . It was a warm day with a cloudless sky , and when you looked round and saw all the tiers ...
... building is a vast amphi- theatre , open to the sky , with an arena in the centre , just after the plan of those at Rome , in the old Roman days . It was a warm day with a cloudless sky , and when you looked round and saw all the tiers ...
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... building that we left the rest for a moment to see its grand front . Whilst gazing at the splendid marble figures , the blue sky forming the back- ground , and the full blaze of the midday sun seeming to give life to them , we should ...
... building that we left the rest for a moment to see its grand front . Whilst gazing at the splendid marble figures , the blue sky forming the back- ground , and the full blaze of the midday sun seeming to give life to them , we should ...
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Page 18 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of heaven first-born, Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate.
Page vi - I cannot refrain from adding that the collection of tracts, which we call, from their excellence, the Scriptures, contain, independently of a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than could be collected, within the same compass, from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any idiom.
Page vi - The two parts, of which the Scriptures consist, are connected by a chain of compositions, which bear no resemblance, in form or style, to any that can be produced from the stores of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian, learning. The antiquity of those compositions no man doubts ; and the unstrained application of them to events long subsequent to their publication, is a solid ground of belief, that they were genuine predictions, and consequently inspired*.
Page 65 - AN accident, which happened to the gentleman engaged in reviewing this Sermon, proves, in the most striking manner, the importance of this charity for restoring to life persons in whom the vital power is suspended. He was discovered, with Dr. Langford's discourse lying open before him, in a state of the most profound sleep ; from which he could not, by any means, be awakened for a great length of time. By attending, however, to the rules prescribed by the Humane Society, flinging in the smoke of...
Page 62 - In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, Teaching us, by most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things. And with childlike, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand; Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land.
Page 14 - O'er the grave where our hero we buried We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeams' misty light And the lantern dimly burning.
Page 14 - With all which so great and terrible an ostentation, they did not in all their sailing round about England so much as sink, or take, one ship, bark, pinnace, or cockboat of ours, or ever burnt so much as one sheepcote of this land.
Page vi - Jones in private was, that he was a boy of so active a mind, that if, he were left naked and friendless on Salisbury plain, he would, never, theless, find the road to fame and riches.
Page i - So rapid was the fall of Spain, that in only three reigns after the death of Philip II, the most powerful monarchy existing in the world was depressed to the lowest point of debasement, was insulted with impunity by foreign nations, was reduced more than once to bankruptcy, was stripped of her fairest possessions, was held up to public opprobrium, was made a theme on which school-boys and moralists loved to declaim respecting the uncertainty of human...
Page i - About one million of the most industrious inhabitants of Spain were hunted out like wild beasts...