A general collection of ... voyages and travels, digested by J. Pinkerton, Volumen6John Pinkerton 1809 |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 684 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe with heaved stroke Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.
Página 364 - ... is ufually made twice a year. I obferved a woman employed in preparing it : having placed over the fire a round iron plate...
Página 667 - Notwithstanding which," the same author observes, " the work went on with such expedition, that it was surprising to see the fortress raised within less than five months, though the earth, which is very scarce thereabouts, was, for the greater part, carried by the labourers in the skirts of their clothes, and in bags made of rags and old mats, the use of wheelbarrows being then unknown to them...
Página 364 - Norway, called odds right, or right of inheritance, by which the proprietor of certain freehold eftates may re-purchafe his eftate, which either he or any of his anceftors have fold, provided he can prove the title of his family. But in order to enforce this claim, his anceftors, or he, muft have declared every tenth year, at the...
Página 600 - Englifh pounds. It has always been efteemed a meritorious act of religion to prefent a church with bells, and the piety of the donor has been meafured by their magnitude. According to this mode of...
Página 576 - Vitepfk ; from thence by a ftraight line running directly fouth to the fource of the Drug near Tolitzin ; by the Drug to its junction with the Dnieper ; and laftly, by the Dnieper to the point where it receives the Sotz. This territory is now divided into the two governments of...
Página 37 - His black coat was juft as much bedaubed as the frocks of his flock, and like the reft of them, he had cards in his left hand, which he ftruck fo forcibly on the dirty table, that the whole chamber trembled.
Página 684 - Ihe goes to the theatre*, or to a private concert; and, when there is no court in the evening, has a private party at cards. She feldom fups, generally retires at half paft ten, and is ufually in bed before eleven.
Página 297 - Germany cannot ufe its power altogether, and that other nations feel their ftrength, that it has been defpifed by the inhabitants of other countries, who yet have nothing to boaft above it, fave a fafter bond of union among themfdves, or a ridiculous pride.
Página 364 - Jlices of meat, fprinkled with fait, and dried in the wind, like hung beef; alfo a foup made like a hafty-pudding, of oatmeal or barley-meal; and in order to render it more palatable, they put in it a pickled herring or falted mackerel. The ufe of potatoes has been lately introduced, but thofe roots do not grow to any fize in a country where the fummer is fo fhort.