A Geographical View of the World: Embracing the Manners, Customs, and Pursuits, of Every NationE. Hopkins and W. Reed, 1826 - 452 Seiten |
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... traveller . At dawn of day , and all day long , he moves in a forest , and at night he sleeps in one . The only birds we saw were woodpeckers . The peasantry are poorly housed and clad ; yet amidst such discouraging appearances , their ...
... traveller . At dawn of day , and all day long , he moves in a forest , and at night he sleeps in one . The only birds we saw were woodpeckers . The peasantry are poorly housed and clad ; yet amidst such discouraging appearances , their ...
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... traveller to be provided with a carriage of his own . It ought to be light , and in summer a open carriage is much more useful and agreeable than any other . The horses in Sweden are small but very active , and remarkably sure footed ...
... traveller to be provided with a carriage of his own . It ought to be light , and in summer a open carriage is much more useful and agreeable than any other . The horses in Sweden are small but very active , and remarkably sure footed ...
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... traveller , aware of its condition , would venture to approach . - There is , in fact , no degree of meanness to which a Russian nobleman will not conde- scend . To enumerate the things of which we were eye - witnesses , would only ...
... traveller , aware of its condition , would venture to approach . - There is , in fact , no degree of meanness to which a Russian nobleman will not conde- scend . To enumerate the things of which we were eye - witnesses , would only ...
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... traveller , having observed small wooden windmill wings fixed at the entrance of the huts , inquired for what purpose they were put there , and was told that they were praying machines ; on which the owner of the hut causes certain ...
... traveller , having observed small wooden windmill wings fixed at the entrance of the huts , inquired for what purpose they were put there , and was told that they were praying machines ; on which the owner of the hut causes certain ...
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... traveller's wardrobe but ill fitted us to do credit to our country in this respect . I never saw a Cossack in a dirty suit of clothes . Their hands , moreover , are al- ways clean , their hair free from vermin , their teeth white , and ...
... traveller's wardrobe but ill fitted us to do credit to our country in this respect . I never saw a Cossack in a dirty suit of clothes . Their hands , moreover , are al- ways clean , their hair free from vermin , their teeth white , and ...
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Seite 4 - District Clerk's Office. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of May, AD 1828, in the fifty-second year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, SG Goodrich, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit...
Seite 4 - An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time* therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
Seite 201 - Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Seite 171 - Hence the English, of any people in the universe, have the least of a national character, unless this very singularity may pass for such.
Seite 205 - AND it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.
Seite 312 - Europeans so frequently confounded ; the latter have been stationary at least as long as we have known them, while the slightest impulse seems sufficient to give a determination to the Japanese character, which would progressively improve until it attained the same height of civilization with the European.
Seite 321 - Antshar is one of the largest trees in the forests of Java. The stem is cylindrical, perpendicular, and rises completely naked to the height of sixty, seventy or eighty feet. Near the surface of the ground it spreads obliquely...
Seite 353 - Banderilla, the nutritive fruit of the banana tree comes no longer to maturity. In this foggy and cold region, therefore, want spurs on the Indian to labour and excites his industry. At the height of San Miguel pines begin to mingle with the oaks, which...
Seite 206 - Gentiles : and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword ; and there was not a man left.
Seite 348 - Of these, what may be considered as the Darcotas are the Mindawarcarton, or Minowakanton, known to the French by the name of the Gens du Lac, or People of the Lake.