On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature, 3: With Occasional Remarks on the Laws, Customs, Manners, and Opinions of Various NationsY. and W. B. Whittaker, 1823 |
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... Sumatra , where it is blue . This exception is so remarkable , that the Bramins believe that it once grew in Paradise . On the banks of the Ganges , near Hurdwar , is a grass2 , which , when trampled upon , diffuses a grateful perfume ...
... Sumatra , where it is blue . This exception is so remarkable , that the Bramins believe that it once grew in Paradise . On the banks of the Ganges , near Hurdwar , is a grass2 , which , when trampled upon , diffuses a grateful perfume ...
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... Sumatra is in continual alarm from tigers , wild elephants , and rhinoceroses ; but it has many of the choicest indulgences of Nature . The Azores are exposed to earthquakes and inundations ; but they enjoy a delicious climate ; and no ...
... Sumatra is in continual alarm from tigers , wild elephants , and rhinoceroses ; but it has many of the choicest indulgences of Nature . The Azores are exposed to earthquakes and inundations ; but they enjoy a delicious climate ; and no ...
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... Sumatra , too , eat the flesh of their enemies ; not so much for the value of the food , but as a method of shewing their scorn and detestation . Montaigne3 , contrasting similar prac- tices with the barbarities of the rack , feelingly ...
... Sumatra , too , eat the flesh of their enemies ; not so much for the value of the food , but as a method of shewing their scorn and detestation . Montaigne3 , contrasting similar prac- tices with the barbarities of the rack , feelingly ...
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... Sumatra is an island , recently discovered to be rich . During an excursion into its interior , Sir Thomas Raffles found gold , cassia , and camphor . To his astonishment , also , he discovered it to be exceed- ingly populous ; highly ...
... Sumatra is an island , recently discovered to be rich . During an excursion into its interior , Sir Thomas Raffles found gold , cassia , and camphor . To his astonishment , also , he discovered it to be exceed- ingly populous ; highly ...
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... Sumatra . To strangers they appear unceremonious , and even repulsive ; but , on a more immediate inter- course , these rough manners are perceived , not to pro- ceed from abstraction to their own concerns , but from an undisguised ...
... Sumatra . To strangers they appear unceremonious , and even repulsive ; but , on a more immediate inter- course , these rough manners are perceived , not to pro- ceed from abstraction to their own concerns , but from an undisguised ...
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admiration Æschylus ancient animals Ariosto beautiful birds body bosom calumny celebrated character charms Cicero Circassia climate colour CREUSA crime death delightful deserts elegant equal esteem Euripides exhibit father feeling fishes flowers frequently fruit garden genius Greece happiness heart hermitage Herodotus honour horses human hundred imagination Indian inhabitants insects instances island Italy Java landscapes Lapland Lelius liberty live magnificent manner melancholy mind Montesquieu mountains natives Nature never observed Paradise passion Persia Petrarch Philotes plants pleasure Plutarch poet produces quadrupeds regions remarkable resemble retired rising rocks Romans Rome says scenery scenes seen serpents shores Silius Italicus Sir Thomas Raffles skin snow soil solitude soul species spot Strabo sublime Sumatra summer Switzerland Tacitus thou thousand Tibullus Tinian tion trees unfrequently vale valley Vaucluse vegetable Vide village virtue wild winter wives woman women