A Journal of Travels in England, Holland, and Scotland: And of Two Passages Over the Atlantic, in the Years 1805 and 1806, المجلد 2T. B. Wait and Company, 1812 - 359 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 317 - Resolved, That a committee, in conjunction with one from the Senate, be appointed to consider on the most suitable manner of paying honor to the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens.
الصفحة 332 - Hume received a religious education from his mother, and early in life was the subject of strong and hopeful religious impressions ; but as he approached manhood they were effaced, and confirmed infidelity succeeded. Maternal partiality, however, alarmed at first, came at length to...
الصفحة 249 - ... the character of the man. He belongs to the society of Friends ; but both he and Mrs. Murray have so tempered the strictness of the manners peculiar to their society, that they are polished people, with the advantage of the utmost simplicity of deportment, I was fortunate in finding Mr. Murray able to converse with freedom; for, at times, he is unable to utter even a whisper, and is compelled to decline seeing his friends.
الصفحة 200 - Kew, covers eight acres, and is one of the largest, if not the largest in the world ; it is very complete in all its arrangements and collections.
الصفحة 107 - Catharine's, kept gliding down, and at last rushed on with violence, and totally changed the surface of all the ground to the west of the brook that runs into the sea; so that now the whole is convulsed and scattered about as if it had been done by an earthquake ; of all the rough ground, from the cottage upwards to the cliff, there is scarcely a foot of land but what has changed its situation! The...
الصفحة 320 - The distinguished professor at whose house we were, is the pride and ornament of the University, and of Scotland. With a countenance strongly marked with the lines of intellect ; with an expression of thought, approaching almost to severity, but, in conversation, softened with great benignity ; and with manners, uniting every thing of dignity and ease, he, even at first sight, impresses a stranger forcibly with an idea of his superiority.
الصفحة 290 - Douglas, was served by seventy-five gentlewomen, whereof fifty-three were daughters of noblemen, all clothed in velvet and silks, with their chains of gold and other ornaments, and was attended by...
الصفحة 332 - Having succeeded in this dreadful work, he went abroad into foreign countries j and as he was returning, an express met him in London, with a letter from his mother, informing him that she was in a deep decline, and could not long survive ; she said she found herself without any support in her distress ; that he had...
الصفحة 333 - Hume now applied himself with unwearied, and, unhappily, with successful efforts, to sap the foundation of his mother's faith. Having succeeded in this dreadful work, he went abroad into foreign countries ; and, as he was returning, an express met him in London with a letter from his mother, informing him that she was in a deep decline, and could not long survive. She said she found herself without...
الصفحة 58 - This passage had been made through the solid rock, and it was high enough to allow us to pass along stooping, which we did for a considerable distance, when the sound of human voices from below, indicated our approach to the populous regions of midnight; while the rattling of mechanical instruments, employed in breaking off the ore, and the report from...