Protestant vigils; or, Evening records of a journey in Italy, in ... 1826 and 1827 |
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... curious soil : beneath its beautiful vines and its abundant corn , amber is found in earth impregnated with petroleum . Ten miles south of the city is an aperture called La Salza , whence , in spring and autumn , ascend , with a loud ...
... curious soil : beneath its beautiful vines and its abundant corn , amber is found in earth impregnated with petroleum . Ten miles south of the city is an aperture called La Salza , whence , in spring and autumn , ascend , with a loud ...
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... curious gallery open to the south , and closed by a wall on the north , which is built all the way from the city to this asylum of the Dominican monks . On the open side it is supported by pillars , and was erected for the convenience ...
... curious gallery open to the south , and closed by a wall on the north , which is built all the way from the city to this asylum of the Dominican monks . On the open side it is supported by pillars , and was erected for the convenience ...
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... curious gallery open to the south , and closed by a wall on the north , which is built all the way from the city to this asylum of the Dominican monks . the open side it is supported by pillars , and was erected for the convenience of ...
... curious gallery open to the south , and closed by a wall on the north , which is built all the way from the city to this asylum of the Dominican monks . the open side it is supported by pillars , and was erected for the convenience of ...
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... curious phenomenon which the people here call Foco del Legno . On a steep mountain , Monte di Fo , amidst stones and rocks , over a space about fifteen feet in diameter , are a dozen or two of flames constantly ascending about a foot ...
... curious phenomenon which the people here call Foco del Legno . On a steep mountain , Monte di Fo , amidst stones and rocks , over a space about fifteen feet in diameter , are a dozen or two of flames constantly ascending about a foot ...
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... curious antiquities . We saw in the distance a ruined temple , which they said was dedicated to Bacchus . I judged that the town was wholly given up to superstition , for its heights are covered by fourteen convents . It is surrounded ...
... curious antiquities . We saw in the distance a ruined temple , which they said was dedicated to Bacchus . I judged that the town was wholly given up to superstition , for its heights are covered by fourteen convents . It is surrounded ...
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Page 66 - He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it ; and he called it Nehushtan.
Page 215 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 93 - If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God, which he hath testified of his Son.
Page 138 - 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 Daci.an mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday! — All this rushed with his blood. — Shall he expire And unavenged? — Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire!
Page 65 - I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book. If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book : And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city and from the things which are written in this book.
Page 167 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Page 111 - That the mighty Pan Was kindly come to live with them below ; Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.
Page 216 - For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened : not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Page 164 - This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it ; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
Page 138 - I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped 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 hailed the wretch who won.