Letters during a tour through ... France, Savoy, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands1818 |
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... Chamouni ... Glacier des Bossons ... General aspect of the vale of Chamouni ... 164-194 . LETTER XX . CHAMOUNI . Ascent of Montanvert ... Crottes ... The method of descending from Mont Blanc adopted by M. de Saussure and his party ...
... Chamouni ... Glacier des Bossons ... General aspect of the vale of Chamouni ... 164-194 . LETTER XX . CHAMOUNI . Ascent of Montanvert ... Crottes ... The method of descending from Mont Blanc adopted by M. de Saussure and his party ...
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... Chamouni , where we must abandon it , and be content to proceed on mules . These important matters being duly arranged , we took a drive round the environs of the city , and were much delighted with the variety , the beauty , I and the ...
... Chamouni , where we must abandon it , and be content to proceed on mules . These important matters being duly arranged , we took a drive round the environs of the city , and were much delighted with the variety , the beauty , I and the ...
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... Chamouni . Yes - we were to sleep that night at the foot of Mont Blanc , upwards of three thousand feet above the level of the sea , and surrounded , in the midst of summer , by eternal snow ! You will not wonder at the enthusiasm which ...
... Chamouni . Yes - we were to sleep that night at the foot of Mont Blanc , upwards of three thousand feet above the level of the sea , and surrounded , in the midst of summer , by eternal snow ! You will not wonder at the enthusiasm which ...
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... Chamouni , we formed no inconsiderable cavalcade . Our guides , too , many of them , fully answered the description of the nécessaire , as far as the robuste was concerned ; their prudence , how- ever , remained to be tried : but they ...
... Chamouni , we formed no inconsiderable cavalcade . Our guides , too , many of them , fully answered the description of the nécessaire , as far as the robuste was concerned ; their prudence , how- ever , remained to be tried : but they ...
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... Chamouni , I should tell you that in our way we passed the remains of an avalanche which fell last year . It covered a considerable part of the road , and crushed a large portion of the neighbouring wood beneath its weight . The ...
... Chamouni , I should tell you that in our way we passed the remains of an avalanche which fell last year . It covered a considerable part of the road , and crushed a large portion of the neighbouring wood beneath its weight . The ...
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Letters During a Tour Through ... France, Savoy, Switzerland, Germany and ... Thomas Raffles Դիտել հնարավոր չէ - 2016 |
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Alps altar amongst appearance Arve ascended Auxonne beautiful beneath Buonaparte carriage cathedral Catholic celebrated Champagnole Charlemagne chiefly church circumstance Coblence dark deep devoted Dieppe Duke Duke de Berri eau de vie edifice elegant elevation English entered exhibition extremely feel feet forest France French gallery gardens Geneva glacier grand grandeur heard hills honour houses hundred immense infidelity inhabitants interesting Jura king lake land leaving LETTER look Louis XV Louvre magnificent majestic Martigny mass Mayence miles mind monarch Mont Blanc morning mountains object observed paintings palace Palais Royal Paris party passed perhaps pleasure present principles racter religion remarkably repose Rhine rich road rocks Rouen royal sabbath scene scenery seemed seen Servoz side snow spacious spire splendour spot streets sublime summit surrounded thing thousand Thuileries tion town travellers vale of Chamouni valley vast Vaud village whole woods Your's
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Էջ 126 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Էջ 147 - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
Էջ 236 - Chillon! thy prison is a holy place, And thy sad floor an altar — for 'twas trod, Until his very steps have left a trace Worn, as if thy cold pavement were a sod, By Bonnivard ! — May none those marks efface ! For they appeal from tyranny to God.
Էջ 287 - And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country ; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat : and no man gave unto him.
Էջ 176 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Էջ 223 - That there actually existed an immense treasure of merit, composed of the pious deeds, and virtuous actions, which the saints had performed beyond what was necessary for their own salvation, and which were therefore applicable to the benefit of others ; that the guardian and dispenser of this precious treasure was the Roman pontiff"; and that of consequence he was empowered to assign to such as he thought proper, a...
Էջ 79 - Many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ; whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly ; whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.'1 I wish there were 1 Phil.
Էջ 44 - The guards insisted. They raised their voices, and seemed to wish to call on others to assist them. " Perhaps this was the most terrible moment of this most dreadful morning. Another instant, and the best of Kings would have received from his rebellious subjects indignities too horrid to mention — indignities that would have been to him more insupportable than death. Such was the feeling expressed on his countenance. Turning towards me, he looked at me steadily, as if to ask my advice. Alas ! it...
Էջ 45 - I heard him pronounce distinctly these memorable words, ' I die innocent of all the crimes laid to my charge ; I pardon those who have occasioned my death ; and I pray to "God, the blood you are now going to shed may never be visited on France.
Էջ 43 - My silence answered that we were. One of the guards came to open the carriage door, and the gendarmes would have jumped out, but the king stopped them, and leaning his arm on my knee, "Gentlemen," said he, with the tone of majesty, "I recommend to you this good man. Take care that after my death no insult be offered to him — I charge you to prevent it.