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Pagina 2
... feet in height , of beautiful proportions , in strict conformity with the purity in taste and style of Melrose Abbey , from which it is , in all its details , derived . " The design was originally made to a scale of 180 feet high ; but ...
... feet in height , of beautiful proportions , in strict conformity with the purity in taste and style of Melrose Abbey , from which it is , in all its details , derived . " The design was originally made to a scale of 180 feet high ; but ...
Pagina 5
... feet foremost , and , of course , coming out feet first , he said it was of no conse- quence , as we should travel so fast we should not know whether we were on our heads or feet . And then the railways ; - why , it is dreadful to think ...
... feet foremost , and , of course , coming out feet first , he said it was of no conse- quence , as we should travel so fast we should not know whether we were on our heads or feet . And then the railways ; - why , it is dreadful to think ...
Pagina 11
... feet high . The whole cost of transporting a camel- load of coffee from San'a to Mokhá is forty - four dollars , upon which the mer- chant clears a profit of three dollars and a half . It is brought into the San'a market in the months ...
... feet high . The whole cost of transporting a camel- load of coffee from San'a to Mokhá is forty - four dollars , upon which the mer- chant clears a profit of three dollars and a half . It is brought into the San'a market in the months ...
Pagina 14
... feet square ; and as the cells are ranged against the edge , and the churches occupy the centre of the space , the effect to the eye is not unpleasing . We were conducted , as strangers freely are , through this open court , and we had ...
... feet square ; and as the cells are ranged against the edge , and the churches occupy the centre of the space , the effect to the eye is not unpleasing . We were conducted , as strangers freely are , through this open court , and we had ...
Pagina 20
... feet . A few years previously , a foot - path had been made by projecting a wooden platform 5 feet over the pier , on thenorth side ; and shortly before the removal of the Bridge , this platform was rebuilt at the expense of the two ...
... feet . A few years previously , a foot - path had been made by projecting a wooden platform 5 feet over the pier , on thenorth side ; and shortly before the removal of the Bridge , this platform was rebuilt at the expense of the two ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 233 - And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
Pagina 263 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay...
Pagina 308 - Ye stars are but the shining dust Of my divine abode, The pavement of those heavenly courts, Where I shall reign with God.
Pagina 263 - Lake Leman lies by Chillon's walls: A thousand feet in depth below Its massy waters meet and flow; Thus much the fathom-line was sent no From Chillon's snow-white battlement, Which round about the wave enthralls: A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave.
Pagina 317 - ... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Pagina 333 - We see him, so far as we do see him, not in himself, but in a reflex image from the objectivity in which he was manifested : he is Falstaff and Mercutio and Malvolio and Jaques and Portia and Imogen and Lear and Othello ; but to us he is scarcely a determined person, a substantial reality of past time, the man Shakspeare. The two greatest names in poetry are to us little more than names. If we are not yet come to question his unity, as we do that of " the blind old man of Scio's rocky isle...
Pagina 216 - I no sooner (saith he) come into the library, but I bolt the door to me, excluding lust, ambition, avarice, and all such vices, whose nurse is Idleness, the mother of Ignorance, and Melancholy herself, and in the very lap of eternity, amongst so many divine souls, I take my seat with so lofty a spirit and sweet content, that I pity all our great ones, and rich men that know not this happiness.
Pagina 43 - The true test of a great man — that, at least, which must secure his place among the highest order of great men — is his having been. in advance of his age.
Pagina 352 - Review; this was acceded to •with acclamation. I was appointed Editor, and remained long enough in Edinburgh to edit the first number of the Edinburgh Review.
Pagina 392 - And bread itself is gather'd as a fruit ; ' Where none contest the fields, the woods, the streams : — The goldless age, where gold disturbs no dreams, Inhabits or inhabited the shore, Till Europe taught them better than before : Bestow'd her customs, and amended theirs, But left her vices also to their heirs.