American pictures drawn with pen and pencil, 第 242 卷1876 |
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American amongst beauty Big Trees Boston Bridal Veil Fall Brigham Young Broadway built California called cañon cataract Cathedral Rock centre Chicago Chinese church cliff houses Colorado colour continent Creek crossed Denver depth distance district dollars Dome El Capitan England Falls feet high five forest formed Garden geysers granite half height hills Hudson Hudson River hundred and fifty hundred feet hundred miles immense Indians inhabitants Island labour land magnificent Mariposa Grove mass million mining Mississippi Mormon MORMON EXODUS nearly Nevada Niagara Pacific line pass peaks picturesque prairie railway rapids ravine reach rise river Rocky Mountains rush Salt Lake City San Francisco Sauce scene scenery seen settlement shores side Sierra Sierra Nevada soil spring stands stream streets summit thousand feet thousand miles three hundred traveller twenty valley vast vertical whilst wonderful Yellowstone Yellowstone Lake York Yosemite Yosemite Valley
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第 216 頁 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
第 216 頁 - Religion and Morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and cherish them.
第 216 頁 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
第 216 頁 - Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice?
第 160 頁 - It was not until I came on Table Rock, and looked — Great Heaven, on what a fall of bright-green water ! — that it came upon me in its full might and majesty. Then, when I felt how near to my Creator I was standing, the first effect, and the enduring one — instant and lasting — of the tremendous spectacle, was Peace.
第 31 頁 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
第 165 頁 - The place where we live is a wilderness wood, Where grass is much wanting that's fruitful and good ; Our mountains, and hills, and our valleys below...
第 32 頁 - And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while : for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.
第 192 頁 - Heaven save the ladies, how they dress ! We have seen more colors in these ten minutes than we should have seen elsewhere in as many days. What various parasols ! what rainbow silks and satins ! what pinking of thin stockings, and pinching of thin shoes, and fluttering of ribbons and silk tassels, and display of rich cloaks with gaudy hoods and linings...
第 117 頁 - Capitan, are of insignificant size compared with the dimensions of the solid wall itself. They are hardly noticeable in taking a general view of the Valley. El Capitan imposes on us by its stupendous bulk, which seems as if hewed from the mountains on purpose to stand as the type of eternal massiveness. It is doubtful if anywhere in the world there is presented so squarely cut, so lofty, and so imposing a face of rock.