The Traveller in Africa: Containing Some Account of the Antiquities, Natural Curiosities, and Inhabitants of Such Parts of that Continent and Its Islands, as Have Been Most Explored by EuropeansDarton, Harvey, and Darton, 1814 - Всего страниц: 374 |
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... appearance , and show it to have been a no- ble edifice ; but the column of Pompey , as it is usu- ally called , though it is more probable that it was constructed in honour of Severus , is the most perfect . The whole pillar is one ...
... appearance , and show it to have been a no- ble edifice ; but the column of Pompey , as it is usu- ally called , though it is more probable that it was constructed in honour of Severus , is the most perfect . The whole pillar is one ...
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... appearance , probably as a security from the rapacity of their governors . In the course of our short voyage , we saw several moveable islands , which , my companions told me , frequently change both their situation and number . The ...
... appearance , probably as a security from the rapacity of their governors . In the course of our short voyage , we saw several moveable islands , which , my companions told me , frequently change both their situation and number . The ...
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... appearances , that the earth , as well as the water , is here greatly impregnated with salt : the soil is coarse sand , and is as soft to the foot as ploughed land after a slight frost . How far the natron country extends , I could not ...
... appearances , that the earth , as well as the water , is here greatly impregnated with salt : the soil is coarse sand , and is as soft to the foot as ploughed land after a slight frost . How far the natron country extends , I could not ...
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... appearance . We landed at Boulac , the port of Grand Cairo , where corn and merchandise are put on shore , in order to be conveyed to the city . My first care was , to carry my letters of introduction to Signior Razzini , a Venetian ...
... appearance . We landed at Boulac , the port of Grand Cairo , where corn and merchandise are put on shore , in order to be conveyed to the city . My first care was , to carry my letters of introduction to Signior Razzini , a Venetian ...
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... appearance of the houses , which are so daubed with mud , that it is not easy to ascertain what they are made off . But that which appears to me a defect , is , to the natives , an excellence : shelter from the scorching rays of the sun ...
... appearance of the houses , which are so daubed with mud , that it is not easy to ascertain what they are made off . But that which appears to me a defect , is , to the natives , an excellence : shelter from the scorching rays of the sun ...
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Стр. 150 - Where brighter suns dispense serener light, And milder moons imparadise the night ; A land of beauty, virtue, valor, truth, Time-tutored age, and love-exalted youth. The wandering mariner, whose eye explores The wealthiest isles, the most enchanting shores, Views not a realm so bountiful and fair, Nor breathes the spirit of a purer air...
Стр. 150 - The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest, Where man, creation's tyrant, casts aside His sword and sceptre, pageantry and pride, While in his soften'd looks benignly blend The sire, the son, the husband, brother, friend; Here woman reigns; the mother, daughter, wife, Strew with fresh flowers the narrow way of life! In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, An angel-guard of loves and graces lie; Around her knees domestic...
Стр. 150 - Here woman reigns ; the mother, daughter, wife, Strew with fresh flowers the narrow way of life ; In the clear heaven of her delightful eye, An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fireside pleasures gambol at her feet.
Стр. 223 - It was in vain to think of flying ; the swiftest horse, or fastest sailing ship could be of no use to carry us out of this danger; and the full persuasion of this rivetted me as if to the spot where I stood, and let the camels gain on me so much in my state of lameness, that it was with some difficulty I could overtake them.
Стр. 150 - Touch'd by remembrance trembles to that pole ; For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Стр. 341 - As soon as he had seated himself upon a mat by the threshold of his door, a young woman, his intended bride, brought a little water in a calabash, and kneeling down before him, desired him to wash his hands ; when he had done this, the girl, with a tear of joy sparkling in her eyes, drank the water, this being considered as the greatest proof she could possibly give him of her fidelity and attachment.
Стр. 332 - ... from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea, scattered through a large body of sand or clay, and in this state it is called by the Mandingoes sanoo munko (gold powder).
Стр. 150 - An angel-guard of loves and graces lie ; Around her knees domestic duties meet, And fire-side pleasures gambol at her feet. Where shall that land, that spot of earth be found? " Art thou a man — a patriot ? look around, O thou shalt find, howe'er thy footsteps roam, That land thy country, and that spot thy home.
Стр. 224 - I saw from the southeast a haze come, in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground. It was a kind of blush upon the air, and it moved very rapidly, for I...