A Residence in the West Indies and America: With a Narrative of the Expedition to the Island of Walcheren, Volume 2

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Page 126 - For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.
Page 195 - Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.
Page 125 - They are as venomous as the poison of a serpent, even like the deaf adder, that stoppeth her ears; 5 Which refuseth to hear the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely.
Page 210 - If we look with wonder upon the great remains of human works, such as the columns of Palmyra, broken in the midst of the desert, the temples of Paestum, beautiful in the decay of twenty centuries, or the mutilated fragments of Greek sculpture, in the Acropolis of Athens, or in our own Museum, as proofs of the genius of artists, and power and riches of nations now past away ; with how much deeper...
Page 211 - ... feeling of admiration must we consider those grand monuments of nature, which mark the revolutions of the globe : continents broken into islands ; one land produced, another destroyed ; the bottom of the ocean become a fertile soil ; whole races of animals extinct, and the bones and...
Page 71 - We saw indeed the same sorts of water-fowl as in Botany Bay, but they were so shy that we could not get a shot at them. As I had not therefore a single inducement to stay longer in this place, I weighed anchor at six o'clock in the morning of Thursday the 31st of May, and put to sea.
Page 168 - Negroes said he had been refreshing himself by lying across the creek, with his head on one side and his tail on the other...
Page 195 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth ; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Page 319 - The finest divarshun that's under the sun, Is to sit by the fire till the praties are done.
Page 279 - ... Viscount Melbourne, &c., &c., &c. DESPATCH from LORD WELLESLEY to LORD MELBOURNE, dated April 18, 1834. My Lord, — I have the honour to enclose for the consideration of his majesty's government, the replies of the provincial inspectors to a question which I proposed to them respecting the renewal of the act for the more effectual suppression of local disturbances in Ireland, which if not renewed, will expire in the month of August, 1834.

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