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... mountains , and more withering in their progress than Alpine blasts , have swept over the surface , of this fair peninsula . Every where it exhibits scars of human violence ; - every object announces , how long it has been the 2.
... mountains , and more withering in their progress than Alpine blasts , have swept over the surface , of this fair peninsula . Every where it exhibits scars of human violence ; - every object announces , how long it has been the 2.
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... object announces , how long it has been the theatre of man's restless passions ; -every thing bears evidence of its complete subjection to his power . The moral and intellectual gran- deur of Italy , like that of her architectural mo ...
... object announces , how long it has been the theatre of man's restless passions ; -every thing bears evidence of its complete subjection to his power . The moral and intellectual gran- deur of Italy , like that of her architectural mo ...
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... objects . The land of Sicily and Calabria , composed as it is for the greater part of lava , wears , at a distance , an appearance of sterility . But this illusion is corrected upon ex- amining more narrowly the properties of the soil ...
... objects . The land of Sicily and Calabria , composed as it is for the greater part of lava , wears , at a distance , an appearance of sterility . But this illusion is corrected upon ex- amining more narrowly the properties of the soil ...
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... objects with tints that al- most realize the visionary light with which the imagination of Virgil has illuminated the ideal scenery of his Elysium- Largior hic campos æther et lumine vestit , Purpureo . In Italy , the Moon is a pale Sun ...
... objects with tints that al- most realize the visionary light with which the imagination of Virgil has illuminated the ideal scenery of his Elysium- Largior hic campos æther et lumine vestit , Purpureo . In Italy , the Moon is a pale Sun ...
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... objects , enjoyments which cannot be imparted to a person destitute of the rudiments of a liberal education . It is , there- fore , unfair to compare with it , a country , the events of whose history , are yet too few and re- cent to ...
... objects , enjoyments which cannot be imparted to a person destitute of the rudiments of a liberal education . It is , there- fore , unfair to compare with it , a country , the events of whose history , are yet too few and re- cent to ...
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