The Quarterly Review, Volume 19J. Murray, 1818 |
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... traveller can again speak of the delicious shades and stately trees of Ant- werp ! Carnot , in preparing to defend the place , laid what were then its beautiful environs as bare as a desert . The remark which he makes upon the view from ...
... traveller can again speak of the delicious shades and stately trees of Ant- werp ! Carnot , in preparing to defend the place , laid what were then its beautiful environs as bare as a desert . The remark which he makes upon the view from ...
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... traveller not to go on purpose to the Borromean islands unless he had a great deal of leisure : for he says , there is nothing very rare or extraordinary in them . A man who who never saw but very ordinary things of that nature 10 ...
... traveller not to go on purpose to the Borromean islands unless he had a great deal of leisure : for he says , there is nothing very rare or extraordinary in them . A man who who never saw but very ordinary things of that nature 10 ...
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... travellers in so inhospitable a place . As we ascended we entered a very thick , solid , and dark body of clowds , wch look'd like rocks at a little distance , which lasted neare a mile in going up ; they were dry misty vapours ...
... travellers in so inhospitable a place . As we ascended we entered a very thick , solid , and dark body of clowds , wch look'd like rocks at a little distance , which lasted neare a mile in going up ; they were dry misty vapours ...
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... traveller must sometimes have experienced , in an hour of exhaustion , when he feels the want of that comfort and that perfect rest , one of which can only be enjoyed in his own country , and the other in his own house . But the ...
... traveller must sometimes have experienced , in an hour of exhaustion , when he feels the want of that comfort and that perfect rest , one of which can only be enjoyed in his own country , and the other in his own house . But the ...
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... traveller can ever have beheld it without astonishment . Evelyn had seen it in both places , and yet repeats the common story , which had it been fact instead of fable , would have been less remarkable than the actual and as yet ...
... traveller can ever have beheld it without astonishment . Evelyn had seen it in both places , and yet repeats the common story , which had it been fact instead of fable , would have been less remarkable than the actual and as yet ...
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