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Page 117 - ... who has length of days in her right hand, and in her left hand riches and honour...
Page 139 - ... the possibility of its originating in the retention and decomposition of portions of the placenta. Although Harvey and other writers showed that they were more or less familiar with it, and even made most creditable observations on its etiology, it was not until the latter half of the last century that it came prominently into notice. At that time the...
Page 53 - The meetings take place, suo jure, and not by any writ from the king or the executive. Every native Norwegian of twenty-five years of age, who is a burgess of any town, or possesses property or the life-rent of land to the value of 30/.
Page 132 - Fair weather may come out of the north," but the tyrant of the west rolls in cloud on cloud till masses of vapour obscure the sun, which day after day no ray of his can pierce; then long pendent streams of condensing vapour float over the languishing ears of corn, or descend in heavy rain to retard and injure the harvest. The sun may be a monarch in the desert, where " the earth is fire and the sun is flame ;" but in Cornwall we often view him as the " dim, discrowned god of day," and long to feel...
Page 80 - They correspond to the presence of a peculiarly decomposing rotten material, that alternates with the hard parts of the rock. As there are generally hard walls to these softer hollows, they are often in the highest degree picturesque, for the action of the sea having worn away a deep inlet, the wall of rock on each side allows of the inlet being approached pretty closely without inconvenience. Up one such hollow the telegraph-wire communicating from Portland, through Alderney, to Guernsey and Jersey,...
Page 94 - ... fortress is of ancient date, and is supposed to have had existence in the time of King John. The greater part of the present building must, however, be more modern than this, and many of the rooms are in a good state of preservation and habitable. Within this ivy-covered stronghold two historic personages spent some time during the civil war.
Page 53 - Storthing has an allowance of one and a half specie-dollar, or about six shillings and sixpence a day. The executive is formed by a Council of State, composed of the governor-general of Norway nominated by the king, and seven councillors of state, the heads of as many departments. The governor-general is invested with merely nominal power, and neither he nor the king has any representative, or organ, in the Storthing.
Page 54 - The navy was manned, in 1874, by 2,051 sailors, the greater number of them volunteers, but a part raised by conscription. All seafaring men and inhabitants of seaports, between the ages of twenty-two and thirty- five, are enrolled on the lists of either the active fleet or the naval militia, and liable, by a law passed in 1866, to the maritime conscription. The numbers on the register amounted, in 1874, to above 62,000 men.
Page 7 - Above all, nowhere are there such sunsets as in the country of which we are speaking. The memory of one night in Norway makes one feel how powerless language is to describe the splendours of that evening glory of carmine, and orange, and indigo, which floods not only the heavens, but the sea, and makes the waves beneath our keel a "flash of living fire.
Page 1 - The farmers not fearing to be turned out of their farms, should they displease a man in power, and having no vote to be commanded at an election for a mock representative, are a manly race; for not being obliged to...