The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 17Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, 1836 |
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... European visiters have resorted to them , a few attracted by curiosity and love of science , and more by hope of gain ; and that many of them have published reports of their observations and discoveries . But , without discussing the ...
... European visiters have resorted to them , a few attracted by curiosity and love of science , and more by hope of gain ; and that many of them have published reports of their observations and discoveries . But , without discussing the ...
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... Europe , which enabled him to set out on his intended voyage to South America . This plan originated with a few zealous friends of natural history in Germany , who confided the execution of it to our author , and supplied him with funds ...
... Europe , which enabled him to set out on his intended voyage to South America . This plan originated with a few zealous friends of natural history in Germany , who confided the execution of it to our author , and supplied him with funds ...
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... European has carried his empire and civilization to the remotest regions . This promontory is indeed worthy to mark the utmost limits of so vast a portion of the globe : from whatever side it is viewed , it appears an isolated majestic ...
... European has carried his empire and civilization to the remotest regions . This promontory is indeed worthy to mark the utmost limits of so vast a portion of the globe : from whatever side it is viewed , it appears an isolated majestic ...
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... European industry , in some cases displayed with all the elegance of our large towns . They alternate with the spacious stores of the English merchants of the higher class , and with the taverns for the sailors , from which proceed ...
... European industry , in some cases displayed with all the elegance of our large towns . They alternate with the spacious stores of the English merchants of the higher class , and with the taverns for the sailors , from which proceed ...
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... Europe . However excellent the grapes and oranges of the country may be , they want the attraction of novelty - even the expectation of finding some new productions in the neighbouring ravines ( quebradas ) is pain- fully disappointed ...
... Europe . However excellent the grapes and oranges of the country may be , they want the attraction of novelty - even the expectation of finding some new productions in the neighbouring ravines ( quebradas ) is pain- fully disappointed ...
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Pagina 201 - Roman province, and ruled it afterwards by procurators or governors, who were sent thither, and recalled at their pleasure : the power of life and death was taken out of the hands of the Jews, and placed in the Roman governor, and their taxes were paid more directly to the Roman emperor, and gathered by the publicans.
Pagina 106 - CHARLEMAGNE'S TRAVELS to CONSTANTINOPLE and JERUSALEM, a Norman-French Poem of the Twelfth Century, now first printed from the original MS. in the British Museum, EDITED by FRANCISQUE MICHEL, foolscap Svo.
Pagina 60 - ... century, at a cheaper rate than they could obtain it from Egypt, where it was then extensively made. The first sugar plantations established in Spain were at Valencia, but they were soon after extended to Granada and Murcia. Prince Henry, the navigator, carried sugar-cane from Sicily to Madeira. Towards the end of the fifteenth and the commencement of the sixteenth centuries, it was conveyed to the Canary islands, where plantations were formed, especially on Gomera and Grand Canary. From Gomera...
Pagina 114 - Behold, the Lord rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt : and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst of it.
Pagina 422 - ... ce serait le rire, ce seraient les larmes; ce serait le bien, le mal, le haut, le bas, la fatalité, la providence, le génie, le hasard, la société, le monde, la nature, la vie ; et au-dessus de tout cela on sentirait planer quelque chose de grand...
Pagina 4 - ... of the sea, — a circumstance which we the more easily observed, because our course lay directly through the midst of this streak, which extended from southeast to north-east.
Pagina 299 - Baldwin sufficiently attest; — his calling them his friends and confidants affording additional evidence of his connexion with the Church. If, too, as has been surmised, he was a Benedictine, rigidly observant of the ancient rules of the order, and, as such, one to whom the rapidly-extending innovations of the Cistercian monks could not but be highly objectional, his vehement opposition to Saint Bernard, who was the head of the Cistercians, and to the Crusades, to the promotion of which that distinguished...
Pagina 304 - Reinardus" have already furnished some particulars. The lion proclaimed a general peace, but, the ants having refused to recognise him as their sovereign, he trod down their hillocks, killing thousands of this tiny race and wounding as many. The lord of the ants was absent when this outrage was committed, but on his return vowed to take bitter vengeance for the injury done to his people : — " So spake their chief, then bunted round After tlie lion, whom he found Under the linden fast asleep. Close...
Pagina 311 - Conuit qu'il aveit ja veu." The Harleian MS. (No. 219) of the Latin Fables of Odo de Ceriton was assuredly compiled in England, as the introduction of English verses into the moralizations clearly proves, and we there find several of Reynard's Histories related, with the names of the actors, Isingrinus, &c., a fact which serves to show that these stories were as familiar to the inhabitants of this island as to those of the continent.* Another manuscript in the same library (No 913), which was obviously...
Pagina 302 - ... which shows very clearly that the third book, in which the wolf and the fox repeatedly encounter each other without the slightest allusion being made to this particular injury, is very improperly thrust into the place which it now occupies. But to proceed, Reynard, after a long discourse with Isengrim, persuades him to wreak his vengeance upon the ram. The wolf agrees to do so, and is accordingly conducted by Reynard to the spot where he is feeding. The ram succeeds, however, in beating off his...