The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volumen4Francis S. Wiggins, 1834 |
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... frequently excite great interest in the spectators . Sympathy , however , on this as on most other occasions , generally sides with the honest and la- borious sufferer , in opposition to the attacks of power , injustice , and rapacity ...
... frequently excite great interest in the spectators . Sympathy , however , on this as on most other occasions , generally sides with the honest and la- borious sufferer , in opposition to the attacks of power , injustice , and rapacity ...
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... frequently exposed to petulent ridicule . But it seems peculiarly suited to his turn of thought ; and , in his pages , a grand and solemn train of reflexions becomes still more impressive from the magnificent flow of the language in ...
... frequently exposed to petulent ridicule . But it seems peculiarly suited to his turn of thought ; and , in his pages , a grand and solemn train of reflexions becomes still more impressive from the magnificent flow of the language in ...
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... frequent visits from them , and afforded opportunities of collecting much interesting information respecting their ... frequently matted with the same pigment . When fresh painted , they are all over of a brick - dust colour . When ...
... frequent visits from them , and afforded opportunities of collecting much interesting information respecting their ... frequently matted with the same pigment . When fresh painted , they are all over of a brick - dust colour . When ...
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... frequently with water . They possess few utensils , and those of the rudest construc- tion ; a piece of soft bark tied at the end serves as a drinking cup , the claw of the kangaroo they use as a needle . They appear to be divided in ...
... frequently with water . They possess few utensils , and those of the rudest construc- tion ; a piece of soft bark tied at the end serves as a drinking cup , the claw of the kangaroo they use as a needle . They appear to be divided in ...
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... the water which fills the more elevated veins and chan- nels by which it is fed . This pressure frequently forces the water to break a passage through the surface , and • it gushes out into a spring , which ultimately Hydrostatics . 81.
... the water which fills the more elevated veins and chan- nels by which it is fed . This pressure frequently forces the water to break a passage through the surface , and • it gushes out into a spring , which ultimately Hydrostatics . 81.
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Página 30 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
Página 407 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Página 34 - They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows; "Friends," says he, and neighbours, "the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot...
Página 333 - To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share and treads upon : the oak Shall send his roots abroad and pierce thy mould.
Página 257 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Página 72 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
Página 407 - To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; On the wilderness, wherein there is no man; To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; And to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
Página 370 - No endless night, yet not eternal day; The saddest birds a season find to sing, The roughest storm a calm may soon allay: Thus, with succeeding turns, God tempereth all, That man may hope to rise, yet fear to fall.
Página 333 - Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods, rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and poured round all Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
Página 334 - The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.