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Strona 2 - In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an act entitled "an act supplementary to an act entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned...
Strona 2 - An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled, an Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
Strona 27 - ... and in a few weeks more it existed but as a dangerous shoal. And such inevitably would have been the fate of the equally incoherent cone-like craters of ^Ctna and Auvergne during the seven and a half months that intervened between the breaking up of the fountains of the great deep and the reappearance of the mountain-tops, had they been included within the area of the deluge.
Strona 2 - ... and also to an act, entitled, " An act supplementary to an act, entitled, an act for 'be encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts- and hooks- to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.
Strona 16 - It would be an almost hopeless task for an artist, to attempt the representation of all the beauties which are here presented in one view to the eye. Small as is the point of the pencil, and delicate as is the touch of the graver, even when directed under the magnifier, they are still...
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Strona 63 - ... often relieved by our recurring to milder, calmer, and more encouraging objects, with which we generally find them intermingling. The comforts of a cottage, the pleasant aspect of a river's margin, the green nibbled turf under the shade of a grove, alternately administer to us a calm which alleviates the painful exertion we make in contemplating things too great for our powers.
Strona 9 - Holyoke as the spot from which to take a general view of this great stream, I cannot but reflect with pleasure, that it is a favourite spot with travellers, and that the mere mention of its name will excite many agreeable recollections. If there be any thing beautiful in the banks of the Connecticut, those beauties may well be descanted upon here ; for in this vicinity are they presented in greater variety, and in a larger extent, than in any other part of its course ; and if any eminence may claim...
Strona 62 - ... abound, and many a Little woodland scene opens upon us to captivate the eye, we are impressed by these marks of destruction with an awful idea of the wreck we are soon to witness. But in this case there is no agreeable surprise to await us, for the impressions become more powerful at every turn, till we find ourselves in the desolation of what was created desolate, and the rude commingling of vast objects, which were before awful for size, and ranged without form or order.
Strona 151 - The last bed chamber in a crowded inn, on a side of the house exposed all the afternoon to a July or August sun, is not unfrequently his portion at night ; so that, after all, it may be questioned whether the canal boats, with their monotony, their comparative sluggishness, and the republican equality to which they reduce different grades of society, ought not to be more generally in good repute, than they are, at least with some descriptions of travellers. Perhaps no one ever failed to make such...