Discoveries in Hieroglyphics and Other Antiquities, Volume 61813 - Hieroglyphics |
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... Chinese and Tartars , that sur- prize must be increased by the contents of this volume , which will give a scarcely less detailed account of America , that vast continent , which , if we believe a favourite story , was only discovered ...
... Chinese and Tartars , that sur- prize must be increased by the contents of this volume , which will give a scarcely less detailed account of America , that vast continent , which , if we believe a favourite story , was only discovered ...
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... China , from the abundance of boats there , called doas , or dows ; and as Tartary has its name so doubled , in order to mark , the height and prodigious extent of the mountains of that country , ( quasi , Taugos , Tau- gos ) . Having ...
... China , from the abundance of boats there , called doas , or dows ; and as Tartary has its name so doubled , in order to mark , the height and prodigious extent of the mountains of that country , ( quasi , Taugos , Tau- gos ) . Having ...
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... Antilochus ( Ireland ) , of the pas sage to China by way of the Cape of Good Hope ; and this is no unfit place to add , that it appears to have been Nestor's intention there to recom- mend the latter passage to his son , by contrasting 56.
... Antilochus ( Ireland ) , of the pas sage to China by way of the Cape of Good Hope ; and this is no unfit place to add , that it appears to have been Nestor's intention there to recom- mend the latter passage to his son , by contrasting 56.
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... China , which must necessarily have led to acquaintance with those islands . Some notice was taken of the drugs and spices produced by them , and by the Asiatic islands in general , when it was said in the first chapter , that 62.
... China , which must necessarily have led to acquaintance with those islands . Some notice was taken of the drugs and spices produced by them , and by the Asiatic islands in general , when it was said in the first chapter , that 62.
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... China , * I have heard it affirmed by a gentleman of credit , well acquainted with the navigation of the Eastern Seas , that he had often smelt the clove - blossoms at a great distance ; and that once in particular , under favorable ...
... China , * I have heard it affirmed by a gentleman of credit , well acquainted with the navigation of the Eastern Seas , that he had often smelt the clove - blossoms at a great distance ; and that once in particular , under favorable ...
Common terms and phrases
Æneid ague alluded allusion alum Amazon ancient apprehend atque bark-tree Bay of Honduras brothers called Cape Cape Horn Cape Maisy China Circe Comus contained Cuba cure Diemen's Land disease drawn in fig enigma expression fable fever figure following lines Gemini gin-seng gum lac Hæc hand head History of Drugs Homer Honduras Iliad implied Indies Island of Cuba Isle of Cuba Isthmus of Darien Jardin Lady Mamore mention moon mummies noticed oblique observed Odyssey particular passage Pegu perhaps Peru Peruvian bark pestilence plague of Athens poem poet prototype reader recollected reference Reine remarkable remedy represented resemblance river Amazon river Mamore seems shape shepherd shew side song South America Spir Spirit stagnant thou tion tropic of Cancer Ulysses Van Diemen's Land virgin volcanoes West India Gulf word Zodiac δε εκ εν ες μεν μοι τε
Popular passages
Page 118 - The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream ; And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole ; Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the east.
Page 268 - If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians : for I am the Lord that healeth thee.
Page 83 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 140 - Plucking ripe clusters from the tender shoots ; Their port was more than human, as they stood. I took it for a faery vision Of some gay creatures of the element, That in the colours of the rainbow live, 300 And play i
Page 131 - Was rife, and perfect in my listening ear; Yet nought but single darkness do I find. What might this be? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.
Page 192 - There is a gentle Nymph not far from hence, That with moist curb sways the smooth Severn stream : Sabrina is her name, a virgin pure ; Whilom she was the daughter of Locrine, That had the sceptre from his father Brute.
Page 157 - Heaven is saintly chastity, that, when a soul is found sincerely so, a thousand. liveried angels lackey her, driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, and, in clear dream and solemn vision, tell her of things that no gross ear can hear; till oft converse with heavenly habitants begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, the unpolluted temple of the mind, and turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, till all be made immortal.
Page 164 - I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death...
Page 180 - With that same vaunted name, virginity. Beauty is nature's coin ; must not be hoarded, But must be current...
Page 178 - Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand, Covering the earth with odours, fruits and flocks, Thronging the seas with spawn innumerable, But all to please, and sate the curious taste...