Sketches from Nature,: Taken, and Coloured, in a Journey to Margate

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J. Cundee, 1802 - Margate (England) - 261 pages
 

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Page ii - A short Account of the Ancient History, present Government, and Laws of the Republic of Geneva.
Page 212 - MARY, that if she-ll covered, she would send some costly offering to a chapel, which was consecrated to her, at a little PORT, called BRADSTOW, or BROAD-STAIRS, in the isle of THANET (part of which chapel is at this day remaining); — and in which, her image was esteemed...
Page 51 - Most of the company had talked over their own case, which invalids are particularly fond of doing, and all had given a judgment on the sea ; but in general so contradictory, that had I formed my opinion on theirs, it would have amounted nearly to this — that it thinned and it thickened the blood — it strengthened — it...
Page 49 - My lean carcafe was complimented on being plumped out fince we had laft lafl: fcen each other; — I returned as gracious a falute to the bilious gentleman who had the civility to tell me fo, — but I fear it was in both of us rather the offering of good-nature than truth. A poor crippled figure, with an eye of languor, was commending the improved looks of a lady...
Page 219 - ... several other religious institutions ;— and was, from her amiable character, and pious example, beloved, and respected to the last hour of her life.— She survived ISABELLA eleven years, and died most sincerely, and deservedly lamented, towards the end of the year 1512. — Her Remains, pursuant to her own desire, were deposited by the side of those of her Sister, with ; all that solemnity due to her high rank and office. — A monument was erected near to the place, where they were interred,...
Page 45 - HAIL, thou inexhaustible source of wonder and contemplation ! Hail, thou multitudinous ocean ! whose waves chase one another down like the generations of men, and, after a momentary space, are immerged forever in oblivion.
Page vii - An Account of the Pelew Islands, situated in the western part of the Pacific ocean ; composed from the journals and communications of captain Henry Wilson and some of his officers, who in August 1783 were there shipwrecked, in the Antelope, a packet belonging to the honourable East India Company...
Page 199 - ... a rare affection for each other, that it seemed as if NATURE, by forming them together in the womb, had prepared them for that extraordinary union, which was to distinguish their lives; —and for those effusions of elevated friendship, which the loss of their exemplary mother was one day to call forth.
Page 206 - I before mentioned, was the intended bridegroom ; who at this time would most willingly have waved the service, had not his own nice sense of honour, and his zeal for his royal master, overcome every private motive. — — Were I to follow closely, the manuscript from whence the substance of this story is drawn, it would lead me into some of the historical transactions of those times, which are already sufficiently known ; — only it is worthy of being remembered, that there are encomiums bestowed...

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