The Family Magazine, Volume 5Redfield & Lindsay, 1838 |
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... Live Oakers Customs Fifty Years Since 403 Menura or Lyre - Tail 87 Village Prize Congreve Rockets 461 Gigantick Crane 127 Teazle Costume of the Jews 465 Lump - Fish 128 Plantain Discourse on the Times 216 Argonauta 129 Flax Denomination ...
... Live Oakers Customs Fifty Years Since 403 Menura or Lyre - Tail 87 Village Prize Congreve Rockets 461 Gigantick Crane 127 Teazle Costume of the Jews 465 Lump - Fish 128 Plantain Discourse on the Times 216 Argonauta 129 Flax Denomination ...
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... 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 as often as he can , to sorts of fruits , and on the roots of many plants ; the ...
... 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 as often as he can , to sorts of fruits , and on the roots of many plants ; the ...
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... live in a habitual wretchedness and famine . It will almost incredible to us , but it is an undoubte that the quantity of food usually consumed greatest part of them does not exceed six ou day . This abstinence is most remarkable the ...
... live in a habitual wretchedness and famine . It will almost incredible to us , but it is an undoubte that the quantity of food usually consumed greatest part of them does not exceed six ou day . This abstinence is most remarkable the ...
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... live in an habitual state of war which , added to their way of life , renders the Bedouins a military people , though they have made no great progress in war as an art . Their camps are formed in a kind of irregular cir- cle , composed ...
... live in an habitual state of war which , added to their way of life , renders the Bedouins a military people , though they have made no great progress in war as an art . Their camps are formed in a kind of irregular cir- cle , composed ...
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... live is one of a count- less host of similar worlds , with which the Almighty hand has bespotted the heavens of infinity that are vaulted over us . The perception of man is indeed limited , but in proportion as the power of opticks is ...
... live is one of a count- less host of similar worlds , with which the Almighty hand has bespotted the heavens of infinity that are vaulted over us . The perception of man is indeed limited , but in proportion as the power of opticks is ...
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Page 101 - And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech: and it came to pass, as they journeyed from the East, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar ; and they dwelt there.
Page 131 - We have mentioned the establishment of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, in the city of New York, under the regents of the university.
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.
Page 304 - They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing. And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and a court for owls.
Page 304 - I have sworn by myself, saith the Lord, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse ; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
Page 316 - Yet nerve thy spirit to the proof And blench not at thy chosen lot, The timid good may stand aloof, The sage may frown — yet faint thou not, Nor heed the shaft too surely cast, The foul and hissing bolt of scorn; For with thy side shall dwell, at last, The victory of endurance born.
Page 453 - I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, "They are gone.