The Wonders of Nature and Art, Or, A Concise Account of Whatever is Most Curious and Remarkable in the World: Compiled from Historical and Geographical Works of Established Celebrity, and Illustrated with the Discoveries of Modern Travellers, Volume 9 |
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Page 85 - ... strongly marking to us, that till now they had never been visited by Europeans, nor been acquainted with any of our commodities except iron, which, however, it was plain they had only heard of, or had known it in some small quantity brought to them at some distant period.
Page 176 - There ray'd from cities o'er the cultured land, Shall bright canals, and solid roads expand.— There the proud arch, Colossus-like, bestride Yon glittering streams, and bound the chasing tide ; Embellished villas crown the landscape scene, Farms wave with gold, and orchards blush between.
Page 199 - ... inches from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail when spread as far as possible flat.
Page 159 - ... the past, and anticipate the future, they are affected by all the changes of the passing hour, and reflect the colour of the time, however frequently it may vary; they have no project which is to be pursued from day to day, the subject of unremitted anxiety and solicitude, that first rushes into the mind when they awake in the morning, and is last- dismissed when they sleep at night.
Page 197 - ... beats him down, and treads him to the ground. The manner of going of this animal is not less extraordinary than its appearance. Instead of going directly forward, it seems to kick up behind with one leg, and then making a bound onward with the other, it goes with such prodigious velocity, that the swiftest racer would be left far behind.
Page 175 - Hope, encouraging Art and Labour, under the influence of Peace, to pursue the means of giving security and happiness to the infant settlement.
Page 231 - ... killing them with the Fiz-gig, while the females use the hook and line. The fiz-gig is made of the wattle ; has a joint in it, fastened by gum ; is from fifteen to twenty feet in length, and armed with four barbed prongs; the barb being a piece of bone secured by gum.
Page 175 - Where Sydney Cove her lucid bosom swells, Courts her young navies, and the storm repels; High on a rock amid the troubled air HOPE stood sublime, and...
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| Title | The Wonders of Nature and Art, Or, A Concise Account of Whatever is Most Curious and Remarkable in the World: Compiled from Historical and Geographical Works of Established Celebrity, and Illustrated with the Discoveries of Modern Travellers, Volume 9 The Wonders of Nature and Art, Or, A Concise Account of Whatever is Most Curious and Remarkable in the World: Compiled from Historical and Geographical Works of Established Celebrity, and Illustrated with the Discoveries of Modern Travellers, Thomas Smith |
| Author | Thomas Smith |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Robert Carr, 1806 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Feb 2008 |
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