An Account of a Voyage to Establish a Colony at Port Philip in Bass's Strait: On the South Coast of New South Wales in His Majesty's Ship Calcutta, in the Years 1802-3-4Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and J.C. Mottley, Portsmouth, 1805 - Всего страниц: 239 |
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... distance , is reckoned by sailors the most material and difficult ; for the English Channel is so situated , that the prevailing westerly winds make the e- gress from it extremely precarious , par- ticularly in winter . In bidding ...
... distance , is reckoned by sailors the most material and difficult ; for the English Channel is so situated , that the prevailing westerly winds make the e- gress from it extremely precarious , par- ticularly in winter . In bidding ...
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... distance . The thermometer stood between 70 and 72 , a temperature , perhaps , more congenial to human life , than any other . The celebrated Peak has by no means the grand appearance that the traveller is taught to expect , but its ...
... distance . The thermometer stood between 70 and 72 , a temperature , perhaps , more congenial to human life , than any other . The celebrated Peak has by no means the grand appearance that the traveller is taught to expect , but its ...
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... distance of six or seven miles , without seeing any thing that could induce a stranger to land on it from choice ; not a trace of cultiva- tion , nor of inhabitants , was to be seen ; nor did a single shrub enliven the dreary brown of ...
... distance of six or seven miles , without seeing any thing that could induce a stranger to land on it from choice ; not a trace of cultiva- tion , nor of inhabitants , was to be seen ; nor did a single shrub enliven the dreary brown of ...
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... distance that might be expected from their altitudes : this , I suppose , proceeds from the exhalations arising from the Salt lakes , and this haze is much thicker and more opake when the sun is in the Northern tropic . CHAP . CHAP . II ...
... distance that might be expected from their altitudes : this , I suppose , proceeds from the exhalations arising from the Salt lakes , and this haze is much thicker and more opake when the sun is in the Northern tropic . CHAP . CHAP . II ...
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... distance inland . These glens are supereminently fruitful , from the combined causes of superior heat and moisture ; the first proceeding from the reflected heat of the sun , confined in a narrow space , and the latter pro- duced by the ...
... distance inland . These glens are supereminently fruitful , from the combined causes of superior heat and moisture ; the first proceeding from the reflected heat of the sun , confined in a narrow space , and the latter pro- duced by the ...
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Стр. 50 - there is more joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance.
Стр. 120 - Poor child of danger, nursling of the storm, Sad are the woes that wreck thy manly form! Rocks, waves, and winds, the shattered bark delay; Thy heart is sad, thy home is far away.
Стр. 120 - Now far he sweeps, where scarce a summer smiles, On Behring's rocks, or Greenland's naked isles : Cold on his midnight watch the breezes blow, From wastes that slumber in eternal snow ; And waft, across the waves' tumultuous roar, The wolf's long howl from Oonalaska's shore.
Стр. 78 - Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year ; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die ; These here disporting, own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.
Стр. 190 - I beheld a second Rome, rising from a coalition of banditti. I beheld it giving laws to the world, and superlative in arms and in. arts, looking down with proud superiority upon the barbarous nations of the northern hemisphere ; thus running over the airy visions of empire, wealth, and glory, I wandered amidst the delusions of imagination.
Стр. 79 - Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge The glowworm lights his gem ; and through the dark A moving radiance twinkles.
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Стр. 119 - Where Andes, giant of the western star, With meteor standard to the winds unfurled, Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world.
Стр. 119 - Looks from his throne of clouds o'er half the world ! Now far he sweeps, where scarce a summer smiles. On Behring's rocks, or Greenland's naked isles : Cold on...
Стр. 186 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.