A Residence at Sierra Leone: Described from a Journal Kept on the Spot, and from Letters Written to Friends at Home, Volume 1J. Murray, 1849 - 335 halaman |
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Halaman 196 - Yea ; have ye never read. Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise ? THE ENTRY INTO THE CITY.
Halaman 156 - O God of our salvation; who art the confidence of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea.
Halaman 92 - The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
Halaman 53 - As far as the eye could reach, nothing was to be seen but reeds which rose five or six feet above the waters in which they bathed their roots.
Halaman 230 - Thou hast spread thy wing, and sheltered us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.
Halaman 168 - He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on Earth...
Halaman 296 - Can you explain this omen? Phys. A rainbow can only occur when the clouds containing or depositing the rain are opposite to the sun — and in the evening the rainbow is in the east, and in the morning in the west; and as our heavy rains, in this climate, are usually brought by the westerly...
Halaman 22 - A young settler woman was recommended to me as a needlewoman, and she volunteered her services by walking, or rather swinging, her portly figure unannounced into the drawing-room ; and, holding out her hand to be shaken, said, with a movement meant to be a low curtsy, " I am the sewing-girl, marm...
Halaman 15 - The harmattan is disagreeable from its extreme dryness and the sand it brings, which causes a thick, dark, reddish haze throughout the whole atmosphere, almost obscuring our view of the opposite shore. Every article of furniture is shrinking and cracking — paper and the boards of books curling up — veneer peeling off — and the strings of the pianoforte breaking. I hear it is much stronger at the Gambia, where it feels like the breath of a hot furnace, causing the panels of doors to shrink and...
Halaman 15 - ... reddish haze throughout the whole atmosphere, almost obscuring our view of the opposite shore. Every article of furniture is shrinking and cracking — paper and the boards of books curling up — veneer peeling off — and the strings of the pianoforte breaking. I hear it is much stronger at the Gambia, where it feels like the breath of a hot furnace, causing the panels of doors to shrink and fall out, and glass to become so brittle that it snaps asunder though untouched by any person. It has...