The Family Magazine, Or, General Abstract of Useful Knowledge, Volume 3Redfield & Lindsay, 1843 |
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... vegetable substances , and more parti- cularly fruits , which form the principal part of their subsistence , they feed on the eggs of birds , and even on the birds themselves , their agility and the struc- ture of their claws affording ...
... vegetable substances , and more parti- cularly fruits , which form the principal part of their subsistence , they feed on the eggs of birds , and even on the birds themselves , their agility and the struc- ture of their claws affording ...
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... vegetables immersed in a similar way . Oxygen gas is colourless , without smell or taste , and may be breathed with impunity for a consider- able time ; but in its pure state is ultimately found injurious to animal life . It is not ...
... vegetables immersed in a similar way . Oxygen gas is colourless , without smell or taste , and may be breathed with impunity for a consider- able time ; but in its pure state is ultimately found injurious to animal life . It is not ...
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... vegetables ; if one grows silk and grapes , another raises hemp and woollens . As Agriculture is in a measure dependant upon the other useful arts , so it is essential to them . What the husbandman produces over and above his own ...
... vegetables ; if one grows silk and grapes , another raises hemp and woollens . As Agriculture is in a measure dependant upon the other useful arts , so it is essential to them . What the husbandman produces over and above his own ...
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... vegetable , and animal earths ; lastly , some have remained open , and form ravines , precipices , abysses , when they are open to the sky ; or caverns , and grottoes , when they have walls and a natural roof . In a general view of the ...
... vegetable , and animal earths ; lastly , some have remained open , and form ravines , precipices , abysses , when they are open to the sky ; or caverns , and grottoes , when they have walls and a natural roof . In a general view of the ...
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... vegetables . The naturalist prefers branches of a grand metallick trunk , concealed in those caverns which contain petrified bones . Those the interiour of the globe , and to which they have are the visible portions of vast burial ...
... vegetables . The naturalist prefers branches of a grand metallick trunk , concealed in those caverns which contain petrified bones . Those the interiour of the globe , and to which they have are the visible portions of vast burial ...
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Page 293 - For in this land of heaven's peculiar grace, The heritage of nature's noblest race, There is a spot of earth supremely blest — A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest...
Page 4 - And he spake three thousand proverbs : and his songs were a thousand and five. And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall : he spake also of beasts, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Page 82 - No, they are all unchained again: The clouds Sweep over with their shadows, and, beneath, The surface rolls and fluctuates to the eye; Dark hollows seem to glide along and chase The sunny ridges.
Page 5 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Page 467 - There's a smile on the fruit, and a smile on the flower, And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea.
Page 464 - Which first will throw its shadow on the eye, Passing the source of light ; and thence away, Succeeded quick by brighter still than they.
Page 467 - Is this a time to be cloudy and sad, When our mother Nature laughs around ; When even the deep blue heavens look glad, And gladness breathes from the blossoming ground...
Page 271 - I reflect that all this grand portion of our Union, instead of being in a state of nature, is now more or less covered with villages, farms, and towns, where the din of hammers and machinery is constantly heard; that the woods are fast disappearing under the axe by day, and the fire by night; that hundreds of steam-boats are gliding to and fro, over the whole length of the majestic river, forcing commerce to take root and to prosper at every spot...
Page 58 - As blows the north wind, heave their foam, And curl around the dashing oar, As late the boatman hies him home. How sweet, at set of sun, to view Thy golden mirror spreading wide, And see the mist of mantling blue Float round the distant mountain's side ! At midnight hour, as shines the moon, A sheet of silver spreads below, And swift she cuts, at highest noon, Light clouds, like wreaths of purest snow. On thy fair bosom, silver lake, O ! I could ever sweep the oar, When early birds at morning wake,...
Page 425 - twas the self-same power divine Taught you to sing, and me to shine; That you with music, I with light, Might beautify and cheer the night.