Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 3W. Blackwood, 1850 |
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... ruins . But misfortune , that great corrector of the vices of the world , soon changed these faulty views . In the days of exile and adversity , when by the waters of Babylon he sat down and wept , he reverted to the faith and the ...
... ruins . But misfortune , that great corrector of the vices of the world , soon changed these faulty views . In the days of exile and adversity , when by the waters of Babylon he sat down and wept , he reverted to the faith and the ...
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... ruins of the Parthenon , I could not avoid recognising a companion in the desolation of empires . " The first thing which strikes a traveller in the monuments of Athens is their lovely colour . In our climate , where the heavens are ...
... ruins of the Parthenon , I could not avoid recognising a companion in the desolation of empires . " The first thing which strikes a traveller in the monuments of Athens is their lovely colour . In our climate , where the heavens are ...
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... ruins of Agrigentum in Sicily , strike the beholder with a degree of astonishment bordering on awe . To have moved such enormous masses seems the work of a race of mortals superior in thought and power to this degenerate age ; it is ...
... ruins of Agrigentum in Sicily , strike the beholder with a degree of astonishment bordering on awe . To have moved such enormous masses seems the work of a race of mortals superior in thought and power to this degenerate age ; it is ...
Sivu 30
... ruins , emerging from the midst of that cultivation ; Albanian women washing their clothes at the fountain or the scanty streams ; peasants leading their asses , laden with provisions , into the modern city : those ruins so celebrated ...
... ruins , emerging from the midst of that cultivation ; Albanian women washing their clothes at the fountain or the scanty streams ; peasants leading their asses , laden with provisions , into the modern city : those ruins so celebrated ...
Sivu 31
... ruins . A miserable cabin is borne aloft on two columns of marble , as if fortune had wished to exhibit , on that magnificent pedestal , a monument of its triumph and its caprice . " These columns , though twenty feet higher than those ...
... ruins . A miserable cabin is borne aloft on two columns of marble , as if fortune had wished to exhibit , on that magnificent pedestal , a monument of its triumph and its caprice . " These columns , though twenty feet higher than those ...
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