The Family Magazine, Volume 5Redfield & Lindsay, 1838 |
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... close even down , grad ing into feathers , and forming on the back a kind of tuft which falls downward over part of the neck . When fully grown the common pelican the largest bird of its order , measuring fr six feet from the extremity ...
... close even down , grad ing into feathers , and forming on the back a kind of tuft which falls downward over part of the neck . When fully grown the common pelican the largest bird of its order , measuring fr six feet from the extremity ...
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... with a naked Machiavel has made the fabulous powers of the mandrake the subject of a comedy , and Lafontaine has employed it as an agent in one of his tales THE WILD BOAR . Th as will keep close to. 14 THE FAMILY MAGAZINE .
... with a naked Machiavel has made the fabulous powers of the mandrake the subject of a comedy , and Lafontaine has employed it as an agent in one of his tales THE WILD BOAR . Th as will keep close to. 14 THE FAMILY MAGAZINE .
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THE WILD BOAR . Th as will keep close to him ; and the huntsman , THE boar generally lives to twenty - five or thirty his spear , should always be riding in among years , if he escapes accidents . They feed on all and charging the boar ...
THE WILD BOAR . Th as will keep close to him ; and the huntsman , THE boar generally lives to twenty - five or thirty his spear , should always be riding in among years , if he escapes accidents . They feed on all and charging the boar ...
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... close our eyes to the good that is forced upon us . We think we hear it said , that in advocating the cause of snails , we have never had the mortification of seeing our ripe and delicately painted peaches disfigured by their hungry ...
... close our eyes to the good that is forced upon us . We think we hear it said , that in advocating the cause of snails , we have never had the mortification of seeing our ripe and delicately painted peaches disfigured by their hungry ...
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... close pursuit . Finding it impos- sible to outrun or elude the cunning animal , trained to hunts of this kind , he halted and waited until it came within a few yards of him , fired and brought him down - reloaded his gun , and again ...
... close pursuit . Finding it impos- sible to outrun or elude the cunning animal , trained to hunts of this kind , he halted and waited until it came within a few yards of him , fired and brought him down - reloaded his gun , and again ...
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Page 286 - Every body continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.
Page 453 - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh.
Page 101 - Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
Page 287 - The change of motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
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