A Book for Massachusetts Children,: In Familiar Letters from a Father, for the Use of Families and SchoolsHilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins., 1829 - 132 pages |
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... boat . by steam . When the weather is fine and the water smooth , it is delightful to stand upon the sea- shore , and see the vessels sailing by . But the weather is not always fine , nor is the sea al- ways smooth . Sometimes the wind ...
... boat . by steam . When the weather is fine and the water smooth , it is delightful to stand upon the sea- shore , and see the vessels sailing by . But the weather is not always fine , nor is the sea al- ways smooth . Sometimes the wind ...
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... boat . It is taken with hook and line . There is the herring , a little bright shining fish , which is caught in nets . But the fishes of which the greatest quantities are taken , are the cod and the mack- erel . The cod is a pretty ...
... boat . It is taken with hook and line . There is the herring , a little bright shining fish , which is caught in nets . But the fishes of which the greatest quantities are taken , are the cod and the mack- erel . The cod is a pretty ...
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... boats , and row towards him . One man stands at the head of the boat , holding a sharp iron spear in his hand , called a harpoon ; and when the boat comes close to the whale , the man throws the harpoon at him with all his might . The ...
... boats , and row towards him . One man stands at the head of the boat , holding a sharp iron spear in his hand , called a harpoon ; and when the boat comes close to the whale , the man throws the harpoon at him with all his might . The ...
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... boats pass up and down the Connecticut and the Merrimack to a great distance ; on the Connecticut , nearly three hundred miles . What do great rivers run into ? What is the lower end of a river called ? What is the upper end called ...
... boats pass up and down the Connecticut and the Merrimack to a great distance ; on the Connecticut , nearly three hundred miles . What do great rivers run into ? What is the lower end of a river called ? What is the upper end called ...
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... boats pass ? LETTER XV . THE eastern part of Massachusetts , where it comes near the sea , is pretty smooth and level . The hills are not steep and sharp , but round and swelling . In the southeastern part of the State , the counties of ...
... boats pass ? LETTER XV . THE eastern part of Massachusetts , where it comes near the sea , is pretty smooth and level . The hills are not steep and sharp , but round and swelling . In the southeastern part of the State , the counties of ...
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Page 128 - And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required; and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Page 50 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 11 - In all of these cases salicylate of methyl had a well-marked effect on the pain, causing it to cease in a variable time and for a longer or shorter period according to the nature of the case, and bringing about a cure in a few days. The drug...
Page 3 - How many inches in a foot ? How many feet in a yard ? How many yards in a rod ? How many rods in a mile ? What place, house, or other object, is a mile from the place where you are ? LETTER II. THE Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the same as the State of Massachusetts. A State ? or Commonwealth, contains a great many people, living under the same government;—that 1 s, having the same rulers, and obeying the same laws.
Page 129 - Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." They rest from their labors and their works do follow them.
Page 6 - Hampshire, may be toward the north also; then the top of the map will be north, the bottom, south, the right hand, east, the left hand, west.
Page 53 - Nothing indeed can be more gloomy than the State Prison. If you were to go into it, to see how it looks, it would make you shudder. There are now about fifty wicked persons in it ; but I do hope that no New Hampshire child that reads this letter will ever behave so bad as to be locked up in that dreadful place.