Escalala: An American Tale

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W. Williams, 1824 - 109

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Strona 104 - But even the slightest motion of the waves, which in the most profound calm, agitates these internal seas, swept through the deep caverns with the noise of distant thunder, and died away upon the ear, as it rolled forward in the dark recesses inaccessible to human observation. No sound more melancholy or more awful ever vibrated on human nerves.
Strona 91 - ... or the carriage, or the vessel, in which he is to go. Ledyard surprised the official person who asked him how soon he could be ready to set off for the interior of Africa, by replying promptly and firmly, "To-morrow." Again, it is highly conducive to a manly firmness, that the interests in which it is exerted should be of a dignified order, so as to give the passions an ample scope and a noble object The degradation...
Strona 95 - Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
Strona 105 - It is true, that no historian has told us the names of the mighty chieftains, whose ashes are inurned in our tumuli ; no poet's song has been handed down to us, in which their exploits are noticed. History has not informed us who were their priests, their orators, their ablest statesmen, or their greatest warriors.
Strona 104 - ... action of the water, with comparative facility. There are no broken masses upon which the eye can rest and find relief. The lake is so deep that these masses, as they are torn from the precipice, are concealed beneath its waters, until they are reduced to sand.
Strona 104 - The lake is so deep that these masses : as they are torn from the precipice, are concealed beneath its waters until they are reduced to sand. The action of the waves has undermined every projecting point; and there, the immense precipice rests upon arches, and the foundation is intersected by caverns extending in every direction. When we passed this mighty fabric of nature, the wind was still and the lakes calm.

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