A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and Lakes of EuropeS. Low, Son, and Marston, 1866 - 316 էջ |
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A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and Lakes of Europe John MacGregor Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1866 |
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APPENDIX baggage bank Bay of Biscay boat boat's bottle boys breakers breakfast breeze Bremgarten bridge Brigach canal canoe canoist carried channel course crowd Danube dark day's deck deep difficult Donaueschingen England English fast feet fish floating France French German hills horse Illfurth inches ladies lake Lake of Lucerne LAKE ZUG land look luggage Madame Clicquot mast Meuse miles morning Moselle mountains never night once paddle passed pleasant pleasure pretty pulled quiet railway rapids rest Reuss Rheinfelden Rhine river road Rob Roy rocks round rushing safe sail scenery seemed seen shallow shore side soon sort steamer stones stop strange stream sure Switzerland table d'hôte things Titisee took tour tourist town traveller trees turn Tuttlingen village Vosges mountains voyage Waldshut walk waves wind wine wood
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Էջ 106 - O, Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains, cold; E'en them who kept thy truth so pure of old. * * » • Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Էջ 311 - ' written with pencil, but scarcely legible," read : " The ship Kent is on fire, Elizabeth, Joanna, and myself, commit our spirits into the hands of our blessed Redeemer ; his grace enables us to be quite composed in the awful prospect of entering into eternity.
Էջ 215 - And the Lord their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land. For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! corn shall make the young men cheerful, and new wine the maids.
Էջ 219 - Kent East Indiaman, by fire, in the Bay of Biscay, on the 1st of March, 1325, by a Passenger," supposed to be Major Macgregor.
Էջ 249 - all I could to recollect; but no ! I had not seen the boys, and so the women went away distracted, and left me sorrowful. But suddenly, when toiling in the middle of a very difficult piece of rock-work, lowering the boat [and therefore no longer trying to remember], I remembered having seen those boys, so I ran over the fields after the anxious mamma, and soon assured her that the children had been safe an hour ago.
Էջ 2 - ... For now, as he sits in his little bark, he looks forward, and not backward. He sees all his course, and the scenery besides. 'With one powerful sweep of his paddle he can instantly turn the canoe, when only a foot distant from fatal destruction. He can steer within an inch in a narrow place, or...