The Modern Traveller: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe, Հատոր 4Wells & Lilly, 1830 |
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The Modern Traveller: A Description, Geographical, Historical, and ..., Հատոր 4 Josiah Conder Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1830 |
The Modern Traveller. A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical, and ... Josiah Conder Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1828 |
The Modern Traveller. A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical, and ... Josiah Conder Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1828 |
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Էջ 295 - An ecclesiastical vestment worn by all grades of the Roman Catholic clergy. It is very simple in form, being a circular piece of cloth with a hole in the middle, through which the head is thrust. It is put on last and covers all the other vestments. In early times it was the same length before as behind, but in the nth century the front was considerably shorter than the back. Soon afterwards, however, it 8i CHA ART DICTIONARY.
Էջ 137 - Every quarter of an hour different balsamic odours fill the air, and other flowers alternately unfold their leaves to the night, and almost overpower the senses with their perfume...
Էջ 172 - ... the cunning animals of the feline race, steal through the obscurity of the wood watching for prey, till at last the howling monkeys, the sloth with a cry as of one in distress, the croaking frogs, and the chirping grasshoppers with their monotonous note, conclude the day ; the cries of the macuc, the capueira, the goat-sucker, and the bass notes of the bull-frog announce the approach of night.
Էջ 258 - ... by the ears and lips, with a pair of tongs, in putting a halter over his head, and a sheep-skin by way of saddle on his back, one of the servants mounts him, and endeavours to overcome the obstinacy of the horse by means of the whip. After many violent motions and leaps, it is at length so far subdued, that it runs furiously away with its rider, and after a long course, it in some degree yields to the bridle. After being thus humbled, it stands still with its head hanging down, on which all the...
Էջ 247 - Their features, on the whole, have more of the Ethiopic than of the American race. The countenance is oval, the cheek-bones high, but not so broad as in the Indians ; the nose broad and flattened, but neither turned up nor much bent ; the mouth broad, with thick but...
Էջ 90 - In Brazil, unlike the Spanish and English colonies, there is hardly any political division of castes, and very few of those galling and degrading distinctions, which have been made by all other nations in the management of their colonies.
Էջ 170 - ... German scale) so regularly, that not a single note is wanting. It commonly sings each note four or five times over, and then proceeds imperceptibly to the following quarter tone. It is usual to deny to the songsters of the American forests all melody and expression, and to allow them no pre-eminence but splendour of plumage. But if, in general, the pretty natives of the torrid zone are more distinguished by the beauty of their colours than by fulness and power of note, and seem inferior to our...
Էջ 138 - ... effluvia, brilliant lightnings play incessantly in the horizon, and elevate the mind in joyful admiration to the stars, which, glowing in solemn silence in the firmament above the continent and ocean, fill the soul with a presentiment of still sublimer wonders.
Էջ 167 - The morning is ushered in by the howling of the monkeys, the high and deep notes of the tree-frogs and toads, the monotonous chirp of the grasshoppers and locusts. When the rising sun has dispelled the mists which preceded it, all creatures rejoice in the return of day. The wasps leave their long nests which hang down from the branches; the ants issue from their dwellings, curiously built of clay, with which they cover the trees, and commence their journey on the paths they have made for themselves,...
Էջ 333 - Within eight years," says an eye-witness of the devastation that had been produced, " the population has been reduced at least two-thirds, many of the principal inhabitants have removed, property to an immense amount in the delightful suburbs, which contained a greater population than the town, has been destroyed, and the value of what remains, reduced to a mere trifle. It is, in fact, nothing but a garrison, with a few starved inhabitants, who are vexed and harassed by the military. I am told, that,...