The General Gazetteer: Or, Compendious Geographical Dictionary : Containing a Description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States, Provinces, Cities ... in the Known World, with Government, Customs, Manners, and Religion of the Inhabitants

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D. Buchanan, 1801 - 306 trang
 

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Trang 1 - ... awaits them on account of what they are now doing, and excite their ferocity by the most provoking reproaches and threats. To display undaunted fortitude in such dreadful situations, is the noblest triumph of a warrior. To avoid the trial by a voluntary death, or to shrink under it, is deemed infamous and cowardly. If any one...
Trang 12 - FRIENDSHIP, that among us is fo fubjeft to change on the flighteft motives, is lafting among the Morlacchi. They have even made it a kind of religious point, and tie the facred bond at the foot of the altar. The Sclavonian ritual contains a particular benediction for the folemn union of two male or two female friends in the prefence of the congregation.
Trang 11 - Indies, and has traffic with the southern parts of Europe, and with America. More ships are sent hence to Greenland than from any other port, that of London excepted.
Trang 13 - The clear, blue, cloudless sky, the polished white buildings, the bright sandy beach, and the dark green sea, present a combination totally new to the eye of an Englishman, just arrived from London...
Trang 13 - ... fume, or haze, covered the fall all round, and hung over the course of the stream both above and below, marking its track, though the water was not seen. The...
Trang 13 - The river had been considerably increased by rains, and fell in one sheet of water, without any interval, above half an English mile in breadth, with a force and noise that was truly terrible, and which stunned and made me, for a time, perfectly dizzy. A thick fume, or haze, covered the fall all round, and hung over the course of the stream both above and below, marking its track, though the water was not seen.
Trang 13 - ... part of it to run back with great fury upon the rock, as well as forward in the line of its course, raising a wave, or violent ebullition, by chafing against each other.

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