The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volumen4Francis S. Wiggins, 1834 |
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... Turns - The Table of Shew Bread -- April - Bethel Chapel , New Bedford , Mass . - On the Delaware Water Gap - Dagon , the ancient Philistine Idol- On the Study of Natural History - The_Supercilious Owl - The Chasseur Ants of Trinidad ...
... Turns - The Table of Shew Bread -- April - Bethel Chapel , New Bedford , Mass . - On the Delaware Water Gap - Dagon , the ancient Philistine Idol- On the Study of Natural History - The_Supercilious Owl - The Chasseur Ants of Trinidad ...
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... 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 which it is clothed . In private life , Dr. Johnson was not less beloved than ...
... 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 which it is clothed . In private life , Dr. Johnson was not less beloved than ...
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... turn of the road , which winds like the stream , they found themselves before the immense opening of the grotto . Baron Humboldt states that the aspect of the place was majestic , even to an eye ac- customed to the picturesque scenery ...
... turn of the road , which winds like the stream , they found themselves before the immense opening of the grotto . Baron Humboldt states that the aspect of the place was majestic , even to an eye ac- customed to the picturesque scenery ...
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... turning round , were struck with the singularly beautiful ap- pearance which a hill covered with the richest vegeta- tion , immediately fronting the entrance of the grotto , presented ; this , brilliantly illuminated by the sun's rays ...
... turning round , were struck with the singularly beautiful ap- pearance which a hill covered with the richest vegeta- tion , immediately fronting the entrance of the grotto , presented ; this , brilliantly illuminated by the sun's rays ...
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... turning a deaf ear to the repeated admonitions , and loud warn- ings of his own conscience ? -- and saying to the world by his precept and example , I will erase virtue , duty , principle and integrity , from my every thought , and mock ...
... turning a deaf ear to the repeated admonitions , and loud warn- ings of his own conscience ? -- and saying to the world by his precept and example , I will erase virtue , duty , principle and integrity , from my every thought , and mock ...
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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.