A Hand-book for Travellers in Switzerland and the Alps of Savory and Piedmont, Including the Protestant Valleys of the WaldensesJ. Murray & Son, 1838 - 367 |
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... present work has great pleasure in acknowledg- ing his obligations to Ebel , as well as to the later writers on the country , especially to the scientific researches of Agassiz , Hugi , and Studer , to the compilations of Glutz ...
... present work has great pleasure in acknowledg- ing his obligations to Ebel , as well as to the later writers on the country , especially to the scientific researches of Agassiz , Hugi , and Studer , to the compilations of Glutz ...
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... present complicated currency , and to devise a new and uniform system of coinage . They have already altered and corrected the weights and measures of Switzerland , but the result of their labours regarding the currency has not yet ...
... present complicated currency , and to devise a new and uniform system of coinage . They have already altered and corrected the weights and measures of Switzerland , but the result of their labours regarding the currency has not yet ...
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... present his name in writing , as our pronunciation is frequently unintelligible to foreigners , and without this precaution the applicant may be told that his luggage has not arrived , when in reality it is all the while lying in the ...
... present his name in writing , as our pronunciation is frequently unintelligible to foreigners , and without this precaution the applicant may be told that his luggage has not arrived , when in reality it is all the while lying in the ...
Strona xxx
... present day . Notwithstanding their long enjoyment of liberty and free institutions , in spite of the glorious examples of their history , we do not find the nation actuated by that independence and noble- ness of sentiment which might ...
... present day . Notwithstanding their long enjoyment of liberty and free institutions , in spite of the glorious examples of their history , we do not find the nation actuated by that independence and noble- ness of sentiment which might ...
Strona xxxiii
... present Swiss peasantry as a nation cannot longer be supposed to be the simple , virtuous , patriarchal race , that their forefathers were . It is evident , from the perusal of their history , that the deterioration had been steady and ...
... present Swiss peasantry as a nation cannot longer be supposed to be the simple , virtuous , patriarchal race , that their forefathers were . It is evident , from the perusal of their history , that the deterioration had been steady and ...
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Strona 293 - Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, And throned Eternity in icy halls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche — the thunderbolt of snow ! All that expands the spirit, yet appals, Gather around these summits, as to show How Earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below.
Strona 150 - But in it there were three tall trees, And o'er it blew the mountain breeze, And by it there were waters flowing, And on it there were young flowers growing, Of gentle breath and hue.
Strona 141 - Sky, mountains, river, winds, lake, lightnings! ye! With night, and clouds, and thunder, and a soul To make these felt and feeling, well may be Things that have made me watchful; the far roll Of your departing voices, is the knoll Of what in me is sleepless, — if I rest. But where of ye, oh tempests! is the goal? Are ye like those within the human breast? Or do ye find, at length, like eagles, some high nest?
Strona 141 - Jura, whose capt heights appear Precipitously steep; and drawing near, There breathes a living fragrance from the shore, Of flowers yet fresh with childhood ; on the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar, Or chirps the grasshopper one good-night carol more...
Strona 117 - Morat! the proud, the patriot field! where man May gaze on ghastly trophies of the slain, Nor blush for those who conquer'd on that plain; Here Burgundy bequeath'd his tombless host, A bony heap, through ages to remain, Themselves their monument; — the Stygian coast Unsepulchred they roam'd, and shriek'd each wandering ghost.
Strona 295 - They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow.
Strona 142 - Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face, The mirror where the stars and mountains view The stillness of their aspect in each trace Its clear depth yields of their far height and hue...
Strona 145 - June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Strona 112 - The music of the cows' bells (for their wealth, like the patriarchs', is cattle) in the pastures, which reach to a height far above any mountains in Britain, and the shepherds...
Strona 141 - Though in their souls, which thus each other thwarted, Love was the very root of the fond rage Which blighted their life's bloom, and then departed : Itself expired, but leaving them an age Of years all winters, — war within themselves to wage.