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... feet further back , is more than I can conjec ture . What does it signify whether Howel and James's is thirty feet or three hundred feet apart from Colnaghi's . The consequence is , that there is a cursed wind continually circumgyrating ...
... feet further back , is more than I can conjec ture . What does it signify whether Howel and James's is thirty feet or three hundred feet apart from Colnaghi's . The consequence is , that there is a cursed wind continually circumgyrating ...
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... feet in depth , and often a mile or two in width , excavated through an elevated platform of transition slate and limestone ; yet these valleys wind to such a degree , that the rivers occasionally return , after a circuit of fifteen or ...
... feet in depth , and often a mile or two in width , excavated through an elevated platform of transition slate and limestone ; yet these valleys wind to such a degree , that the rivers occasionally return , after a circuit of fifteen or ...
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... feet deep . It is continually increasing by the addition of fresh drift - wood , and rises and falls with the water on which it floats ; evidently waiting only an extraordinary flood to bear it off into the gulf of Mexico , where far ...
... feet deep . It is continually increasing by the addition of fresh drift - wood , and rises and falls with the water on which it floats ; evidently waiting only an extraordinary flood to bear it off into the gulf of Mexico , where far ...
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... feet in thickness , as having been washed away within a few years , in one locality . Some of the new islands , says Rennell , formed within a very short period , rival in size and fertility the Isle of Wight . No sooner are they thrown ...
... feet in thickness , as having been washed away within a few years , in one locality . Some of the new islands , says Rennell , formed within a very short period , rival in size and fertility the Isle of Wight . No sooner are they thrown ...
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... feet by six , and four feet thick , is described by Dr. Hibbert as having been , in the winter of 1818 , hurried up an acclivity to a distance of one hun- dred and fifty feet . In the Isle of Sheppey , fifty acres of land , from sixty ...
... feet by six , and four feet thick , is described by Dr. Hibbert as having been , in the winter of 1818 , hurried up an acclivity to a distance of one hun- dred and fifty feet . In the Isle of Sheppey , fifty acres of land , from sixty ...
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Page 278 - My sister ! my sweet sister ! if a name Dearer and purer were, it should be thine ; Mountains and seas divide us, but I claim No tears, but tenderness to answer mine : Go where I will, to me thou art the same — A loved regret which I would not resign. There yet are two things in my destiny, — A world to roam through, and a home with thee.
Page 232 - But how much nobler will be the Sovereign's boast, when he shall have it to say that he found Law dear, and left it cheap ; found it a sealed book, left it a living letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich, left it the inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression, left it the staff of Honesty and the shield of Innocence...
Page 277 - But in all this the recollection of bitterness, and more especially of recent and more home desolation, which must accompany me through life, have preyed upon me here; and neither the music of the shepherd, the crashing of the avalanche, nor the torrent, the mountain, the glacier, the forest, nor the cloud, have for...
Page 278 - I feel almost at times as I have felt In happy childhood ; trees, and flowers, and brooks, Which do remember me of where I dwelt, Ere my young mind was sacrificed to books, Come as of yore upon me, and can melt My heart with recognition of their looks ; And even at moments I could think I see Some living thing to love — but none like thee.
Page 278 - The gift, — a fate, or will, that walk'd astray ; And I at times have found the struggle hard, And thought of shaking off my bonds of clay : But now I fain would for a time survive, If but to see what next can well arrive.
Page 79 - On this she answered under much agitation, " Oh, dear son, thou art dead ! " He instantly awoke and thought no more of his dream, until a few days after he received a letter from his father inquiring very anxiously after his health, in consequence of a frightful dream his mother had on the same night in which the dream now mentioned occurred to him. She...
Page 270 - ... are generally so formed as to admit of no modification ; and as we could not agree when younger, we should with difficulty do so now.
Page 79 - ... and finding nobody out of bed, went directly to the bed-room of his parents. He then said to his mother, whom he found awake, " Mother, I am going a long journey, and am come to bid you good-bye.
Page 273 - His head was remarkably small*, — so much so as to be rather out of proportion with his face. The forehead, though a little too narrow, was high, and appeared more so from his having his hair (to preserve it, as he said) shaved over the temples; while the glossy, dark-brown curls, clustering over his head, gave the finish to its beauty. When to this is added, that his nose, though handsomely, was rather thickly shaped, that his teeth were white and regular, and his complexion colourless, as good...
Page 260 - I am sure my bones would not rest in an English grave, or my clay mix with the earth of that country. I believe the thought would drive me mad on my deathbed, could I suppose that any of my friends would be base enough to convey my carcass back to your soil. I would not even feed your worms, if I could help it...