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Page 319 - And ever and anon he beat The doubling drum with furious heat ; And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity at his side Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild, unaltered mien, While each strained ball of sight seemed bursting from his head.
Page 454 - Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen ; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 471 - See the wretch that long has tost On the thorny bed of pain, At length repair his vigour lost, And breathe and walk again ; The meanest floweret of the vale, The simplest note that swells the gale, The common sun, the air, the skies, To him are opening paradise.
Page 125 - And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
Page 376 - A fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 15 - O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, thus saith the Lord God; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
Page iv - ... frontiers of the Asiatic Sarmatia into Sweden, with the great design of forming, in that inaccessible retreat of freedom, a religion and a people which, in some remote age, might be subservient to his immortal revenge ; when his invincible Goths, armed with martial fanaticism, should issue in numerous swarms from the neighbourhood of the Polar circle, to chastise the oppressors of mankind.
Page 400 - When the young and vigorous fir trees are felled, to the great injury of the woods, the tree is stripped of its bark for its whole length ; the outer part is carefully peeled from the bark ; the deeper interior covering is then shaved off, and nothing remains but the innermost rind, which is extremely soft and white. It is then hung up several days in the air to dry, and afterwards baked in an oven ; it is next heat on wooden blocks, and then pounded as finely as possible in wooden vessels.
Page 125 - ... ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length and three or four in breadth...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa: Scandinavia Volume 9 of Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa, Edward Daniel Clarke |
| Author | Edward Daniel Clarke |
| Edition | 4 |
| Publisher | T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1824 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 May 2008 |
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