Letters from an Absent Brother: Containing Some Account of the Tour Through Parts of the Netherlands, Switzerland, Northern Italy and France in the Summer of 1823, Volume 2Wilson, 1827 |
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... Mont Blanc and eleven other Alps . From the Couvercle there is a twenty minutes ' walk to the Jardin , which is a rock rising above the Mer de Glace . A slight stone enclosure marks out the garden , which is covered , during the brief ...
... Mont Blanc and eleven other Alps . From the Couvercle there is a twenty minutes ' walk to the Jardin , which is a rock rising above the Mer de Glace . A slight stone enclosure marks out the garden , which is covered , during the brief ...
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... Mont Blanc , returned safely : he ac- complished the task in thirty - seven hours ; but his fatigue was so great , that he was at last literally obliged to be pushed up by the guides . At the summit , a tremendous storm ... MONT BLANC . 3 .
... Mont Blanc , returned safely : he ac- complished the task in thirty - seven hours ; but his fatigue was so great , that he was at last literally obliged to be pushed up by the guides . At the summit , a tremendous storm ... MONT BLANC . 3 .
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... Mont Blanc . " My friend and fel- low - traveller's guide was the son of the Syndic , or chief magistrate of the village , which said Syndic we met , with a scythe on his shoulder , in primitive simplicity , going to mow , as we ...
... Mont Blanc . " My friend and fel- low - traveller's guide was the son of the Syndic , or chief magistrate of the village , which said Syndic we met , with a scythe on his shoulder , in primitive simplicity , going to mow , as we ...
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... terminated . The weather has been most fine the whole time . We have seen some of the greatest curiosities in Switzerland and Savoy the Valley of the Cluse , Cha- mouny , Mont Blanc , the Mer de above all 36 RETURN TO MARTIGNY . LETTER XII ...
... terminated . The weather has been most fine the whole time . We have seen some of the greatest curiosities in Switzerland and Savoy the Valley of the Cluse , Cha- mouny , Mont Blanc , the Mer de above all 36 RETURN TO MARTIGNY . LETTER XII ...
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... Mont Blanc , the Mer de above all , the Great St. Bernard . Glace , and We might now return to Lausanne in a day ; but we are tempted to make a détour into Northern Italy : we are only about three days ' journey from Milan ; whither our ...
... Mont Blanc , the Mer de above all , the Great St. Bernard . Glace , and We might now return to Lausanne in a day ; but we are tempted to make a détour into Northern Italy : we are only about three days ' journey from Milan ; whither our ...
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Page 292 - And he charged them that they should tell no man : but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it; 37 And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well : he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
Page 140 - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
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Page 98 - And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
Page 98 - Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.
Page 165 - The present is a fleeting moment, the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last : but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular, still allow about fifteen years.
Page 165 - 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. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame.
Page 302 - Mass there is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead : and that in the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly, really, and substantially the Body and Blood, together with the Soul and Divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ : and that there is made a conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the Body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the Blood ; which conversion the Catholic Church calls Transubstantiation.
Page 144 - I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who will judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom...