"London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world." — Bayard Taylor

There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.

'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'

Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I read at the age of 7 or 8 years and which drove me to desperate attempts at imitation.

The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

Keluarga-keluarga asli Yahudi di Yerusalem, serta mereka yang tinggal di bagian lain Palestina, menghadirkan perbedaan yang mencolok bagi orang-orang Yahudi di Eropa dan Amerika. Mereka memiliki karakteristik fisik yang sama - mata gelap, lonjong, hidung menonjol, pipi dan rahang yang menonjol - tetapi pada yang terakhir, ciri-ciri ini menjadi kasar dan kasar.

The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty table-lands of Central Asia. The word 'Arya,' meaning the high or the excellent, indicates their superiority over the neighboring races long before the beginning of history.

I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye - high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.

The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.

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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.