The Family Magazine, Volume 5Redfield & Lindsay, 1838 |
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... Native Georgian 230 Hammer - Headed Shark 46 Convent of St. Catherine 259 Gems - Bok or Oryx 47 Canal Locks 278 Sting - Ray 47 43 , 110 , 138 , 18 Changes of Fortune 296 Sword - Fish 68 Live Oakers Customs Fifty Years Since 403 Menura ...
... Native Georgian 230 Hammer - Headed Shark 46 Convent of St. Catherine 259 Gems - Bok or Oryx 47 Canal Locks 278 Sting - Ray 47 43 , 110 , 138 , 18 Changes of Fortune 296 Sword - Fish 68 Live Oakers Customs Fifty Years Since 403 Menura ...
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... natives for their rice plantati being cultivated for this grain one year , generally deserted for fresh ground , and offer very eligible spots for the growth of the fertility of the soil not being exhausted THE most common and most ...
... natives for their rice plantati being cultivated for this grain one year , generally deserted for fresh ground , and offer very eligible spots for the growth of the fertility of the soil not being exhausted THE most common and most ...
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... natives in this case strip off the leaves , and by thus direct- ing all the nourishment which the plant obtains to more important services , blossoms are soon produ- ced in abundance . The pepper is brought down from the country on ...
... natives in this case strip off the leaves , and by thus direct- ing all the nourishment which the plant obtains to more important services , blossoms are soon produ- ced in abundance . The pepper is brought down from the country on ...
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... native molluscs , the snail , ( Helix nemoralis , ) the little creature we barbarously crush beneath our feet , considering it a common enemy to horticulture . When we examine its wonderful formation , its tenacity of life , its re ...
... native molluscs , the snail , ( Helix nemoralis , ) the little creature we barbarously crush beneath our feet , considering it a common enemy to horticulture . When we examine its wonderful formation , its tenacity of life , its re ...
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... native cruelty of his na- ture . Some five or six hundred Indians , of all ages and both sexes , surrounded two ponies of more than ordinary size , in an artificial basin , formed at the base of two ancient mounds , about sixty feet ...
... native cruelty of his na- ture . Some five or six hundred Indians , of all ages and both sexes , surrounded two ponies of more than ordinary size , in an artificial basin , formed at the base of two ancient mounds , about sixty feet ...
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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.