What I Saw on the West Coast of South and North America, and at the Hawaiian IslandsD. Appleton, 1865 - 632 páginas |
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... street , a few alleys crossing these at right angles , being nothing but bog pathways , with logs or planks to keep the pedestrian from premature interment , or submersion . The water - lots ( there are no yards ) are covered with green ...
... street , a few alleys crossing these at right angles , being nothing but bog pathways , with logs or planks to keep the pedestrian from premature interment , or submersion . The water - lots ( there are no yards ) are covered with green ...
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... streets familiar with ancient paving stones , and dumped out , without pity for person or purse , at the entrance of the " Aspinwall Hotel " of Panama . CHAPTER III . THE CITY OF PANAMA , AND ENVIRONS Railroad Trip across the Isthmus of ...
... streets familiar with ancient paving stones , and dumped out , without pity for person or purse , at the entrance of the " Aspinwall Hotel " of Panama . CHAPTER III . THE CITY OF PANAMA , AND ENVIRONS Railroad Trip across the Isthmus of ...
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... streets run north and south , east and west , corresponding to the sides of the nearly quadrilateral peninsula on which the town is built ; they are paved with cobble stone , and vary in width from fifteen to thirty feet , including the ...
... streets run north and south , east and west , corresponding to the sides of the nearly quadrilateral peninsula on which the town is built ; they are paved with cobble stone , and vary in width from fifteen to thirty feet , including the ...
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... street through a dilapidated part of the wall , and the ruins of arch and drawbridge , with general rubbish filling the moat . Just outside of the site of this western gateway- " Puerta del tierra ” —is the considerable faubourg of ...
... street through a dilapidated part of the wall , and the ruins of arch and drawbridge , with general rubbish filling the moat . Just outside of the site of this western gateway- " Puerta del tierra ” —is the considerable faubourg of ...
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... streets are narrow , irregular , unpaved ; and when you are informed that the bluff in the rear of the town is the commencement of a sandy plain or tablaza , of thirty to forty miles in extent , down the coast , and into the adjacent ...
... streets are narrow , irregular , unpaved ; and when you are informed that the bluff in the rear of the town is the commencement of a sandy plain or tablaza , of thirty to forty miles in extent , down the coast , and into the adjacent ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 618 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Página 38 - In Venice Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier ; Her palaces are crumbling to the shore, And music meets not always now the ear : Those days are gone — but beauty still is here. States fall, arts fade — but nature doth not die, Nor yet forget how Venice once was dear, The pleasant place of all festivity, The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy...
Página 545 - For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.
Página 62 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply; And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind?
Página 144 - Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal ? Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege...
Página 49 - Defend us thy humble servants in all assaults of our enemies that we, surely trusting in thy defence may not fear the power of any adversaries, through the might of Jesus Christ our Lord.
Página 392 - The morn is up again, the dewy morn, With breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom, Laughing the clouds away with playful scorn, And living as if earth contain'd no tomb, — And glowing into day...
Página 213 - Wondrous truths, and manifold as wondrous, God hath written in those stars above ; But not less in the bright flowerets under us Stands the revelation of His love.
Página 216 - O'er all the enchanted regions there, How beauteous must have been the glow, The life, the sparkling from below Fair gardens, shining streams, with ranks Of golden melons on their banks, More golden where the sunlight falls ; — Gay lizards...
Página 482 - Simple, erect, severe, austere, sublime — Shrine of all saints and temple of all gods, From Jove to Jesus — spared and blest by time; Looking tranquillity, while falls or nods Arch, empire, each thing round thee, and man plods His way through thorns to ashes — glorious dome ! Shalt thou not last? Time's scythe and tyrants' rods Shiver upon thee — sanctuary and home Of art and piety — Pantheon ! — pride of Rome ! CXLVII.