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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... look at . This picture is called a map of Massachusetts ; and you can see by it what the shape of Massachusetts is . You can see that its shape is very irregular . When you look at the map , you must be careful to turn your face toward ...
... look at . This picture is called a map of Massachusetts ; and you can see by it what the shape of Massachusetts is . You can see that its shape is very irregular . When you look at the map , you must be careful to turn your face toward ...
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... look at the map , you will see , that Nantucket and Duke's counties are each of them surrounded by water . Neither of them touches the rest of the land in the State . A piece of land surrounded by water , is called an island ; and the ...
... look at the map , you will see , that Nantucket and Duke's counties are each of them surrounded by water . Neither of them touches the rest of the land in the State . A piece of land surrounded by water , is called an island ; and the ...
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... looks somewhat like a man's arm crooked at the elbow ; and it runs out a great way into the sea . Nan- tucket county is made up of Nantucket Island , and several other small islands near it . Duke's county is made up of the island ...
... looks somewhat like a man's arm crooked at the elbow ; and it runs out a great way into the sea . Nan- tucket county is made up of Nantucket Island , and several other small islands near it . Duke's county is made up of the island ...
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... can see a great ways up and down Con- necticut river . The rich meadows , and green woods , and pleasant towns , look very beauti- fully . There is a road to the top of Mount Holyoke , and a great many people go up to 36 LETTER XV .
... can see a great ways up and down Con- necticut river . The rich meadows , and green woods , and pleasant towns , look very beauti- fully . There is a road to the top of Mount Holyoke , and a great many people go up to 36 LETTER XV .
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... look on the map for all the towns I shall mention . The names of the most important towns are on the map ; but the names of the other towns are not put down , for fear of crowding it with too many words . Beginning at the northeast ...
... look on the map for all the towns I shall mention . The names of the most important towns are on the map ; but the names of the other towns are not put down , for fear of crowding it with too many words . Beginning at the northeast ...
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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.