The Family Magazine, Or, General Abstract of Useful Knowledge, Bind 2Redfield & Lindsay, 1835 |
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... degree neg- ligent about the work . And , by reason of the multi- tude of hands employed in it , it grew very high sooner than any one could expect ; but the thickness of it was so great , and it was so strongly built , that thereby its ...
... degree neg- ligent about the work . And , by reason of the multi- tude of hands employed in it , it grew very high sooner than any one could expect ; but the thickness of it was so great , and it was so strongly built , that thereby its ...
Side 7
... degrees ten minutes north latitude . It has been accurately described by a late voyager , from whose account the following par- ticulars are extracted . In approaching the Cape , a little before midnight , its rocks at first appeared to ...
... degrees ten minutes north latitude . It has been accurately described by a late voyager , from whose account the following par- ticulars are extracted . In approaching the Cape , a little before midnight , its rocks at first appeared to ...
Side 15
... degree from the weather , he depos -- that he never used a comb , but let his hair get matited himself every night for several years . He em- ted , and religiously abstained from paring his nails . ployed the whole of every day ...
... degree from the weather , he depos -- that he never used a comb , but let his hair get matited himself every night for several years . He em- ted , and religiously abstained from paring his nails . ployed the whole of every day ...
Side 18
... degree worn off and gone , before the barbarisms of the Goths quite extinguished it . | " And what thus happened in the learned languages is equally observable in all other languages of the world : time and age vary every tongue on ...
... degree worn off and gone , before the barbarisms of the Goths quite extinguished it . | " And what thus happened in the learned languages is equally observable in all other languages of the world : time and age vary every tongue on ...
Side 27
... degree , that they ran away to hide themselves in the most remote part of the park . In fine , to omit nothing of what may contribute to make all the natural faculties of this animal perfectly known , as well as his acquired knowledge ...
... degree , that they ran away to hide themselves in the most remote part of the park . In fine , to omit nothing of what may contribute to make all the natural faculties of this animal perfectly known , as well as his acquired knowledge ...
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Side 215 - Reading maketh. a full man: conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not.
Side 239 - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, That lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, A beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in their graves ; The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, With the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, But the cold November rain Calls not, from out the gloomy earth, The lovely ones again.
Side 97 - And he said, thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel : for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Side 89 - And yet indeed she is my sister ; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife.
Side 97 - But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
Side 9 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth ; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Side 239 - Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone from upland, glade, and glen. And now when comes the calm mild day — as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home ; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them...
Side 64 - STRANGER, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen Enough of all its sorrows, crimes, and cares, To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the haunts of Nature.
Side 26 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Side 215 - ... the head ; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers