The Family Magazine, Volume 5Redfield & Lindsay, 1843 |
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Page 288 - 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 99 - 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 129 - 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 289 - 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 306 - 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 335 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Page 455 - And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said,
Page 37 - And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.
Page 37 - And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. 17 And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold : two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
Page 266 - All the rivers run into the sea ; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.