Scenes in Foreign Lands, Or, A View of Some of the Most Remarkable Wonders of Travel: An Interesting and Instructive Book for Young PeopleHuestis & Cozans, 1853 - 156 עמודים |
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עמוד 111 - Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies, dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail ; which on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile ; all else deep snow and ice...
עמוד 42 - I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him! — He is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
עמוד 24 - It would be very desirable indeed if the men could acquire the taste for Greenland food ; since all experience has shown that the large use of oil and fat meats is the true secret of life in these frozen countries, and that the natives cannot subsist without it ; becoming diseased, and dying under a more meager diet.
עמוד 42 - He heard it, but he heeded not — his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away; He recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay: There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday.
עמוד 33 - Victory, our own escapes, the politics of England, and the news which was now four years old. But all subsided into peace at last. The sick were accommodated, the seamen disposed of, and all was done, for all of us, which care and kindness could perform.
עמוד 119 - From locks uncomb'd, and from the frozen beard, Long icicles depend, and crackling sounds are heard ; Meantime, perpetual sleet and driving snow Obscure the skies, and hang on herds below. The starving cattle perish in their stalls; Huge oxen stand enclosed in wintry walls Of snow congeal'd; whole herds are buried there Of mighty stags, and scarce their horns appear.
עמוד 22 - They were all well dressed, in excellent deerskins chiefly ; the upper garments double, and encircling the body, reaching, in front, from the chin to the middle of the thigh, and having a cape behind to draw over the head, while the skirt hung down to the calf of the leg, in a peak not unlike that of a soldier's coat of former days. The sleeves covered the fingers ; and, of the two skins which composed all this, the inner one had the hair next the body, and the outer one in the reverse direction....
עמוד 33 - But the ludicrous soon took the place of all other feelings ; in such a crowd" and such confusion, all serious thought was impossible, while the new buoyancy of our spirits made us abundantly willing to be amused by the scene which now opened. Every man was hungry, and was to be fed ; all were ragged, and were to be clothed ; there was not one to whom washing was not indispensable, nor one whom his beard did not deprive of all human semblance. All, everything too, was to be done at once : it was...
עמוד 9 - ... control were over animals, or masses of inert matter ; the military force at the ruler's disposal so insignificant that the mere physical pressure of the crowd must instantly destroy it were the least resistance attempted; the people all this while not only not plunged in rude ignorance, but actually more generally possessed of knowledge to a certain extent, and more highly prizing it than any other nation in the world ; the institutions of the country established for much above five-and-twenty...
עמוד 10 - ... and trade, without employing the precious metals as a medium of exchange — suffering perpetually from the population encroaching upon the means of subsistence, and yet systematically stimulating the increase of its numbers, removing every check which might mitigate the evil, and closing every outlet for the redundancy...