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... rising hills , and bending vales , fertile in corn , waving with woods , and interspersed with flowery meadows , offer the most delightful landscapes of rural opulence and beauty . Some tracts furnish prospects of the more romantic and ...
... rising hills , and bending vales , fertile in corn , waving with woods , and interspersed with flowery meadows , offer the most delightful landscapes of rural opulence and beauty . Some tracts furnish prospects of the more romantic and ...
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... rise 2,136 feet above the level of the sea ; and Coniston Fell , in Lancashire , 2,577 feet . The mountains in the central range extend in some places to a great width ; insensibly shelving down and uniting , on the eastern side , with ...
... rise 2,136 feet above the level of the sea ; and Coniston Fell , in Lancashire , 2,577 feet . The mountains in the central range extend in some places to a great width ; insensibly shelving down and uniting , on the eastern side , with ...
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... rise on the eastern side from the Vale of Severn , of which they are one of the finest boundaries , connecting on the western side with a range of lower hills extending for several miles into Herefordshire . Their greatest elevation is ...
... rise on the eastern side from the Vale of Severn , of which they are one of the finest boundaries , connecting on the western side with a range of lower hills extending for several miles into Herefordshire . Their greatest elevation is ...
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... rise alone from the middle of the plain . It is craggy at the top ; its plan is that of a long oval , point- ing nearly north and south ; and its figure has been supposed pretty exactly to resemble that of a whale asleep on the surface ...
... rise alone from the middle of the plain . It is craggy at the top ; its plan is that of a long oval , point- ing nearly north and south ; and its figure has been supposed pretty exactly to resemble that of a whale asleep on the surface ...
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... rise quite perpendicular , to the height of 300 feet . In general , the salient angles on the one side correspond with the recipient angles on the other ; so that it would seem as if the mountain had been torn asunder by some great ...
... rise quite perpendicular , to the height of 300 feet . In general , the salient angles on the one side correspond with the recipient angles on the other ; so that it would seem as if the mountain had been torn asunder by some great ...
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Page 651 - Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the Bankrupt Laws ; and i This and the two preceding motions were lost by large majorities.
Page 262 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose: Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Page 110 - from the cedar of Lebanon, to the hyssop that springeth out of the wall ;" that is, from the greatest to the least.
Page 186 - Though I have said they are happy, yet I should note that it, was remarked to me, that the little proprietors work like Negroes, and do not live so well as the inhabitants of the poor-house ; but all is made amends for by possessing land.
Page 196 - Cambridgeshire ; on the East by Essex, on the south by Middlesex, and on the west by Bucks and Bedford.
Page 98 - England, that loved and esteemed his own country : 'twas in reply to some of the company that were reviling our climate, and extolling those of Italy and Spain, or at least of France : he said, he thought that was the best climate, where he could be abroad in the air with pleasure, or at least without trouble...
Page 6 - Survey, vol. ii. p. 310.) Figure and Extent. — The figure of this grand division of great Britain is triangular : the base of the triangle being formed by a line drawn from the South Foreland in Kent, to the Land's End in Cornwall ; the eastern side by a line drawn from the South Foreland to Berwick; and the western, or longest side, by a line drawn from Berwick to the Land's End. It is bounded on all sides by the sea, except on the north, where it unites with Scotland ; from which it is separated...
Page 701 - ... miraculous. By the agency of a great deal of complicated machinery, so admirably contrived as to produce the intended effect with unerring precision, and in the very best manner, a process which, in the old system of paper-making, occupied about three weeks is performed in as many minutes ! A continuous stream of fluid pulp is, within this brief space of time, and the short distance of thirty feet, not only made into paper, but actually dried, polished, and every separate sheet cut round the...
Page 120 - ... very severe weather. When it is necessary to kill any, they are always shot ; if the keeper only wounds the beast, he must take care to keep behind some tree, or his life would be in danger from. the furious attacks of the animal ; which will never desist till a period is put to its life.
Page 685 - I was surprised at the prodigious number of blacksmiths' shops upon the road ; and could not conceive how a country, though populous, could support so many people of the same occupation. In some of these shops I observed one or more females...