A Book for Massachusetts Children: In Familiar Letters from a FatherHilliard, Gray, Little and Wilkins, 1831 - 142 pages |
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... Mention a number of articles that are brought from distant coun- tries in vessels . LETTER VIII . A GREAT many people belonging to sea - port towns , get their living by fishing . The sea is full of fishes , and there are a great many ...
... Mention a number of articles that are brought from distant coun- tries in vessels . LETTER VIII . A GREAT many people belonging to sea - port towns , get their living by fishing . The sea is full of fishes , and there are a great many ...
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... mention now for fear of tiring you . LETTER X. THE people of Massachusetts are generally pretty good to work . Some of them com- plain a good deal of hard times ; but almost all make out to get a comfortable living . Yet there are some ...
... mention now for fear of tiring you . LETTER X. THE people of Massachusetts are generally pretty good to work . Some of them com- plain a good deal of hard times ; but almost all make out to get a comfortable living . Yet there are some ...
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... mention them here . When you grow older you will know all about them . All the officers chosen at this meeting are called town officers . At this meeting the people commonly vote the sum of money the town will raise to pay the ...
... mention them here . When you grow older you will know all about them . All the officers chosen at this meeting are called town officers . At this meeting the people commonly vote the sum of money the town will raise to pay the ...
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... mention . A Cape is a point of land running out into the sea . Massachusetts has three capes . The most northerly is Cape Ann . This cape is high and rocky , and has an abundance of granite Cape Ann is in the county of Essex . Southeast ...
... mention . A Cape is a point of land running out into the sea . Massachusetts has three capes . The most northerly is Cape Ann . This cape is high and rocky , and has an abundance of granite Cape Ann is in the county of Essex . Southeast ...
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... mention only three more : Charles river , which runs into Massachusetts Bay ; Taunton river in Bristol county , which runs south into a bay , called Narragansett Bay ; and the Housatonic in Berkshire county , which runs south , through ...
... mention only three more : Charles river , which runs into Massachusetts Bay ; Taunton river in Bristol county , which runs south into a bay , called Narragansett Bay ; and the Housatonic in Berkshire county , which runs south , through ...
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Page 136 - 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.
Page 12 - 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 137 - Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord." They rest from their labors and their works do follow them.
Page 6 - I have got a picture of Massachusetts, drawn on purpose for you to 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 the north, and hold the map, so that the words, Vermont, New 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 - 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 18 - When the men see a whale, they get out of their ship into their 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.