... and those who possess. According to the vicissitudes of the seasons, the face of the country is adorned with a silver wave, a verdant emerald, and the deep yellow of a golden harvest. The North American Review - Seite 334herausgegeben von - 1877Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 Seiten
...** who possess. According to the vicissitudes of the seasons, " the face of the country is adorued with a silver wave, a " verdant emerald, and the deep yellow of a golden har" vest."189 Yet this beneficial order is sometimes interrupted ; and the long delay and sudden swell... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 526 Seiten
...Omar, p. 379 —289-) •; . ..-. I./. CHAP." those who possess. According to the vicissitudes LI. " of the seasons, the face of the country is adorned...emerald, and the " deep yellow of a golden harvest *." Yet this beneficial order is sometimes interrupted; and the long delay and sadden swell of the... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 488 Seiten
...between those who CHAP. " labour and those \v ho possess. According to the vi- ( L1 •• dsskuiles of the seasons, the face of the country is " adorned...wave, a verdant emerald, and " the deep yellow of & golden harvest129." Yet this beneficial order i« sometimes interrupted; and the' long delay and... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 528 Seiten
...unequally shared between " those who labour and those who possess. " According to the vicissitudes of the seasons, " the face of the country is adorned...verdant emerald, and the deep " yellow of a golden harvest."0 Yet this beneficial order is sometimes interrupted ; and the long delay and sudden swell... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1831 - 522 Seiten
...are unequally shared between those who labour and those who possess. According to the vicissitudes of the seasons, the face of the country is adorned with a silver wave, a verdant emerald, and tbe deep yelloAV of a golden harvest."(129) Yet this beneficial order is sometimes interrupted ; and... | |
| Andrew Crichton - 1834 - 432 Seiten
...taskmaster, and the promise of the flowers and fruit of a plentiful increase. According to the vicissitudes of the seasons, the face of the country is adorned with a silver wave, a verdant emerald, or the deep yellow of a golden harvest."* The phenomenon of a country alternately a garden and a sea... | |
| James Ewing Cooley - 1843 - 668 Seiten
...are unequally shared between those who labour and those who possess. According to the vicissitudes of the seasons, the face of the country is adorned...emerald, and the deep yellow of a golden harvest." " What wonder, in the sultry climes that spread Where Nile, redundant o'er its summer bed, From his... | |
| John Gardner Wilkinson - 1843 - 690 Seiten
...cattle, are unequally shared between those who labour and those whopossess. According to the vicissitudes of the seasons the face of the country is adorned with a silver wave, a verdant emerald, or the deep yellow of a golden harvest."* Amer did not neglect any opportunity of improving the newly-acquired... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1843 - 550 Seiten
...are unequally shared between those who labour and those who possess. According to the vicissitudes of the seasons, the face of the country is adorned with a $iher wave, a verdant emerald, and the deep yellow of a golden harvest."(129) Yet this beneficial order... | |
| P A. Beddome - 1844 - 280 Seiten
...are unequally shared between those who labour and those who possess. According to the vicissitudes of the seasons, the face of the country is adorned...emerald, and the deep yellow of a golden harvest." 148. Who was Akbah ? The " conqueror of Africa." He marched from Damascus at the head of ten thousand... | |
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