Crests from the Ocean World; Or, Experiences in a Voyage to Europe ...Tappan, 1854 - 408 ページ |
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377 ページ - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
389 ページ - The artist has managed to impart to the statue a full, luxurious, womanly deportment, which rivets the gaze of the beholder. At a rough estimate, two thousand merchants and brokers have their places of business within a half mile of the exchange, and meet there to carry on operations by which the commercial affairs of the world are powerfully influenced. Near, is the Bank of England, a monied monster indeed. The building covers eight acres, and is irregular and incongruous enough. The affairs of...
377 ページ - Tutor'd by thee, hence poetry exalts Her voice to ages; and informs the page With music, image, sentiment, and thought, Never to die...
140 ページ - ... there shall be one teacher at least to every eight or ten students. This may be going to excess, but it is certain !that the ambition to multiply students beyond all the means of teaching, has been a great injury to education in American institutions. Education can never be what it is capable of being, unless the teacher can command time to become familiar with each individual mind under his care, and to adapt his mode of teaching to its peculiarities. To instruct only in masses, and to apply...
334 ページ - ... to the monarch of France and his nobles. When the rest of Europe was subject to despotism, and involved in comparative ignorance and barbarism, the court of the counts of Flanders was the chosen residence of liberty, civilization, and useful knowledge; and when the ships of other nations...
334 ページ - Phillip the Good, about 1455, luxurious living was carried to a foolish and vicious excess. The wealthy were clad in gorgeous velvets, satins, and jewelry, and their banquets were given with almost incredible splendor.
335 ページ - ... 18,000 men and women by the sword, the gibbet, the rack, and the flames. Ruin and dread of death in its most hideous forms drove thousands of artisans to England, where they introduced the manufacturing skill of Bruges and Ghent. Commerce and trade in Flanders dwindled away. Many of the rich merchants were reduced to beg for bread. The great cities were half deserted, and forest wolves often devoured the scattered inhabitants of desolated villages.
300 ページ - ... eight or ten feet depth below the surface. The sea had no limits ; the rivers no beds nor banks ; the earth no solidity — for, according to an author of the \ third century of our era, there was not, in the whole of \ the immense plain, a spot of ground that did not yield j...
72 ページ - The haven at the mouth of the river being on the whole the best and most commodious on the coast, was called the harbor, or as the French expressed it in their language, le Havre, the word havre, meaning harbor. In fact, the name was in full le havre de grace, as if the Northmen, or Normans, considered it a matter of especial good luck to have even such a chance of a harbor as this at the mouth of their river.
388 ページ - ... persons : at least that number were present at the grand entertainment given by the Corporation to the allied Sovereigns in 1814. At each end of the hall is a magnificent painted glass window in the pointed style. In the hall are statues erected by the Corporation in honour of Lord Chatham, and his son the Right Honourable William Pitt, Nelson, and Alderman Beckford.