 | 1812 - 352 sider
...by some writers, are said to exhale from the surface of lake Asphaltites, nor from any neighboring mountain. Every thing about it was, in the highest...from the narrative of its deceitful allurements and deadly influence. " Beautiful fruit," say they " grows upon its shores, which is no sooner touched,... | |
 | R. P. Forster - 1818 - 592 sider
...smoke, which, by some writers, are said to exhale from the surface of lake Asphaltites, nor from any neighbouring mountain. Every thing about it was, in...from the narrative of its deceitful allurements and deadly influence. " Beautiful fruit," say they, " grows upon its shores, which is no sooner touched,... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1821 - 768 sider
...smoke, which, by some writers, are said to exhale from the surface of Lake Asphaltites, nor from any neighbouring mountain. Every thing about it was, in...concerning it by the inhabitants of the country, who all ,spt'ak of it with terror, seeming to shrink from the narrative of its deceitful allurements •and... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1823 - 512 sider
...position, the shores of the lake of Geneva, opposite to Vevay and Lausanne. Every thing about it is in the highest degree grand and awful. Its desolate,...from the narrative of its deceitful allurements and deadly influence. A passion for the marvellous has thus affixed, for ages, false characteristics to... | |
 | Edward Daniel Clarke - 1823 - 490 sider
...by some writers, are said to exhale from the surface of Lake Asphaltites, nor from any aeighbouring mountain. Every thing about it was, in the highest...degree, grand and awful. Its desolate, although majestic (2) It is pleasing to confirm, by actual observation, the strong internal evidences of the genuineness... | |
 | Henry Teonge - 1825 - 364 sider
...who visited this extraordinary lake in his travels through the Holy Land in the year 1801, says, " Every thing about it was in the highest degree grand and awful. Its desolate though majestic features are well suited to the tales related of it." 58 It has been doubted by sohie... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1825 - 630 sider
...nearly nineteen. A profound silence, awful as death, hangs over the lake : and " its desolate though majestic features are well suited to the tales related concerning it by die inhabitants of the country, who аЦ speak of it with terror."4 3. The Great Seer, mentioned in... | |
 | 1826 - 298 sider
...to exhale from the surface of Lake Asphaltites, nor from any neighbouring mountain. Every VOL. II. Q thing about it was in the highest degree grand and...from the narrative of its deceitful allurements and deadly influence : " Beautiful fruit," say they " grows upon its shores, which is no sooner touched... | |
 | John Dymock, Thomas Dymock - 1833 - 964 sider
...sulphuretted hydrogen, and the water has a similar odour. El very thing about it, says a late traveller, is in the highest degree grand and awful. Its desolate,...from the narrative of its deceitful allurements and deadly influence. Beautiful fruit, say they, grows on its shores, which on being touched beconiH.4... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - 1835 - 302 sider
...smoke, which, by some .writers, are said to exhale from the surface of Lake Ast phaltites, nor from any neighbouring mountain. Every thing about it was, in...from the narrative of its deceitful allurements and deadly influence. " Beautiful fruit," say they, " grows upon its shores, which is no sooner touched,... | |
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Every thing about it was, in the highest degree, grand and awful. Its desolate, although majestic features, are well suited to the tales related concerning it by the inhabitants of the country, who all speak of it with terror, seeming to shrink from the... 
