The London Quarterly Review, Volume 19Theodore Foster, 1819 |
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... feet in diameter were growing in this prodigious cage , ' besides cypress , myrtles , lentiles , and other rare shrubs , which serve to nestle and perch all sorts of birds , who have air and place enough under their airy canopy ...
... feet in diameter were growing in this prodigious cage , ' besides cypress , myrtles , lentiles , and other rare shrubs , which serve to nestle and perch all sorts of birds , who have air and place enough under their airy canopy ...
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... feet , bound his hands behind him , and then set him upright against an oak and left him , swearing that if he made any outcry , they would return and cut his throat , an operation which one of them would have performed upon the spot ...
... feet , bound his hands behind him , and then set him upright against an oak and left him , swearing that if he made any outcry , they would return and cut his throat , an operation which one of them would have performed upon the spot ...
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... feet in length , is mentioned in the description of the buildings ; -in that age attempts were made to naturalize the camel in Europe , -- there were no less than eighty at Aranjuez , but even in that climate the experiment failed ...
... feet in length , is mentioned in the description of the buildings ; -in that age attempts were made to naturalize the camel in Europe , -- there were no less than eighty at Aranjuez , but even in that climate the experiment failed ...
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... feet ; in panta- loons and Wellington boots , either marching up and down with their hands in their pockets , or seated on chairs poised on the hind - feet , and the backs rested against the walls . If a hundred Americans of any class ...
... feet ; in panta- loons and Wellington boots , either marching up and down with their hands in their pockets , or seated on chairs poised on the hind - feet , and the backs rested against the walls . If a hundred Americans of any class ...
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... feet high , without a glimpse of the surrounding country , is oppressive to a degree which those cannot con- ceive who have not experienced it ; and it must depress the spirits of the solitary settler to pass years in this state . His ...
... feet high , without a glimpse of the surrounding country , is oppressive to a degree which those cannot con- ceive who have not experienced it ; and it must depress the spirits of the solitary settler to pass years in this state . His ...
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Page 276 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
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Page 276 - ... and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth : and it was so. And God made the two great lights ; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night : he made the stars also.
Page 301 - And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, inquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence. And when ye come into an house, salute it. And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.
Page 267 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled : at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.