Museum Americanum, Or, Select Antiquities, Curiosities, Beauties, and Varieties, of Nature and Art, in AmericaG. & W.B. Whittaker, W. Baynes and Son, and T. Blanshard, 1823 - 346 էջ |
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... birds , and other animals , cast in gold ; and on the walls , instead of tapestry , were plants and flowers of the same metal , intermixed with serpents , butterflies , and other reptiles and insects . It seems there were no chairs in ...
... birds , and other animals , cast in gold ; and on the walls , instead of tapestry , were plants and flowers of the same metal , intermixed with serpents , butterflies , and other reptiles and insects . It seems there were no chairs in ...
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... birds , beasts , and other animals of wrought gold , placed in it for orna- ment ; and all the vessels and utensils were of the same precious metal . We likewise read of a sort of nunnery wherein were kept a thousand or fifteen hundred ...
... birds , beasts , and other animals of wrought gold , placed in it for orna- ment ; and all the vessels and utensils were of the same precious metal . We likewise read of a sort of nunnery wherein were kept a thousand or fifteen hundred ...
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... birds , which frequent that barren rock in vast numbers . Jeffery , in the meantime , having been landed by two officers , with only the clothes he had on , was left helpless and hopeless , to endure all the agony of the apprehension of ...
... birds , which frequent that barren rock in vast numbers . Jeffery , in the meantime , having been landed by two officers , with only the clothes he had on , was left helpless and hopeless , to endure all the agony of the apprehension of ...
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... de Humboldt heard from afar the hoarse sounds of nocturnal birds . One species of these were as large as European fowls ; they had white mouths , and had some analogy both to goatsuckers and crows . Their 124 AMERICAN CURIOSITIES , & c .
... de Humboldt heard from afar the hoarse sounds of nocturnal birds . One species of these were as large as European fowls ; they had white mouths , and had some analogy both to goatsuckers and crows . Their 124 AMERICAN CURIOSITIES , & c .
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... birds in the dark in- terior parts of the cavern . The noise increased as the travellers advanced , and until the birds were alarmed at the light of the torches . It then ceased for a little while , and they heard , at a distance , the ...
... birds in the dark in- terior parts of the cavern . The noise increased as the travellers advanced , and until the birds were alarmed at the light of the torches . It then ceased for a little while , and they heard , at a distance , the ...
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Museum Americanum, Or, Select Antiquities, Curiosities, Beauties, and ... Charles Hulbert Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1823 |
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Էջ 292 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the first, his Cromwell— and George the third — [' Treason,' cried the speaker — ' treason, treason,' echoed from every part of the house.
Էջ 103 - Potomac, in quest of a passage also. In the moment of their junction, they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea.
Էջ 290 - THE BODY of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out, and stript of its lettering and gilding) lies here food for worms ; yet the work itself shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more beautiful edition, corrected and amended by THE AUTHOR.
Էջ 104 - This scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic. Yet here, as in the neighborhood of the Natural Bridge, are people who have passed their lives within half a dozen miles, and have never been to survey these monuments of a war between rivers and mountains, which must have shaken the earth itself to its centre.
Էջ 101 - Rise, O ever rise, Rise like a cloud of Incense, from the Earth ! Thou kingly Spirit throned among the hills, Thou dread Ambassador from Earth to Heaven, Great Hierarch ! tell thou the silent Sky, And tell the Stars, and tell yon rising Sun, Earth, with her thousand voices, praises GOD.
Էջ 156 - He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about.
Էջ 101 - Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon?
Էջ 165 - ... four of the hunters now fired, and each lodged a ball in his body, two of them directly through the lungs : the furious animal sprang up and ran open-mouthed upon them ; as he came near, the two hunters who had reserved their fire gave him two wounds, one of which breaking his shoulder, retarded his motion for a moment...
Էջ 221 - Chandler, Thomas Bradbury. An Appeal to the Public in Behalf of the Church of England in America, dedicated to the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.
Էջ 167 - She went off a second time as before ; and having crawled a few paces looked again behind her, and for some time stood moaning. But, still her cubs not rising to follow her, she returned to them again, and with signs of inexpressible fondness went round first one and then the other, pawing them, and moaning.