Winter in the South of Europe: Or, Mentone, the Riviera, Corsica, Sicily, and Biarritz, as Winter Climates

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J. Churchill & Sons, 1865 - 442 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 68 - Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing.
Pàgina 152 - Ah, what a life were this ! how sweet ! how lovely ! Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings, that fear their subjects
Pàgina 38 - THERE rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen ! There where the long street roars hath been The stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow From form to form, and nothing stands ; They melt like mist, the solid lands, Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
Pàgina 341 - Plemyrium undosum ; nomen dixere priores Ortygiam. Alpheum fama est hue Elidis amnem occultas egisse vias subter mare ; qui nunc 695 ore, Arethusa, tuo Siculis confunditur undis.
Pàgina 417 - DR. DJT FRANCIS. CHANGE OF CLIMATE; considered as a Remedy in Dyspeptic, Pulmonary, and other Chronic Affections; with an Account of the most Eligible Places of Residence for Invalids in Spain, Portugal, Algeria...
Pàgina 287 - Pelori, laeva tibi tellus et longo laeva petantur aequora circuitu, dextrum fuge litus et undas. Haec loca vi quondam et vasta convulsa ruina (tantum aevi longinqua valet mutare vetustas) 415 dissiluisse ferunt, cum protinus utraque tellus una foret: venit medio vi pontus et undis Hesperium Siculo latus abscidit, arvaque et urbes litore diductas angusto interluit aestu.
Pàgina 68 - And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times. 44 And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said. Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, t Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not.
Pàgina 86 - Peirseus, a robust, stern-looking man, bearing the aplustre of a ship, which he seems to push before him. The Romans, who usually copied the Greeks, gave dusky pinions to Libs, in allusion to its changeful energies, being by turns hot, cold, dry, rainy, serene, and stormy, insomuch that it was reckoned unfavourable for ships to sail from the Athenian ports while the weather hung in the south-west.
Pàgina 126 - The cool, but pleasant temperature, the stimulating influence of the sunshine, the general absence of rain or of continued rain, the dryness of the air, render daily exercise out of doors both possible and agreeable.
Pàgina 433 - If in some things greater latitude may be permitted, others will demand even a more rigid attention. It is, in truth, only by a due regard to all these circumstances that the powers of the constitution can be enabled to throw off, or even materially mitigate, in the best climate, a disease of long standing.

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