The Family Magazine, Or, General Abstract of Useful Knowledge, Volume 2Redfield & Lindsay, 1835 |
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... distance ; they can carry burdens of more than a thousand weight upon their tusks ; with their by their agility , considering at the same time the bulk trunk they break branches of trees , and with their tusks they root out the trees ...
... distance ; they can carry burdens of more than a thousand weight upon their tusks ; with their by their agility , considering at the same time the bulk trunk they break branches of trees , and with their tusks they root out the trees ...
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... distance of forty- two English miles , in two hours . Carriages of this kind are said to be frequent in Chi- na ; and in any wide level country , must be sometimes both pleasant and profitable . The great inconvenience attending the ...
... distance of forty- two English miles , in two hours . Carriages of this kind are said to be frequent in Chi- na ; and in any wide level country , must be sometimes both pleasant and profitable . The great inconvenience attending the ...
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... distance out intellect , without sentiment , and without tractable- from each other in the jaws of the Rhinoceros . He ness . These animals are also , like the hog , very much has , besides these , twenty - four smaller teeth , six on ...
... distance out intellect , without sentiment , and without tractable- from each other in the jaws of the Rhinoceros . He ness . These animals are also , like the hog , very much has , besides these , twenty - four smaller teeth , six on ...
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... distance by his track , and wait to approach him at a time that he sleeps or rests himself . There is in the King of France's cabi- net a fœtus of a Rhinoceros , which was sent from the island of Java . It was said , in a memorial which ...
... distance by his track , and wait to approach him at a time that he sleeps or rests himself . There is in the King of France's cabi- net a fœtus of a Rhinoceros , which was sent from the island of Java . It was said , in a memorial which ...
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... distance between the earth and the sun is increasing annually by one thousandth part of that dis- tance , and they argue from it that the increasing hu- midity of our summer and loss of fertility by the earth , is to be attributed ...
... distance between the earth and the sun is increasing annually by one thousandth part of that dis- tance , and they argue from it that the increasing hu- midity of our summer and loss of fertility by the earth , is to be attributed ...
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Page 215 - Reading maketh. a full man: conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 239 - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, That lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, A beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in their graves ; The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, With the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, But the cold November rain Calls not, from out the gloomy earth, The lovely ones again.
Page 97 - And he said, thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel : for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Page 89 - And yet indeed she is my sister ; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife.
Page 97 - But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
Page 9 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth ; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Page 239 - Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone from upland, glade, and glen. And now when comes the calm mild day — as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home ; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them...
Page 64 - STRANGER, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen Enough of all its sorrows, crimes, and cares, To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the haunts of Nature.
Page 26 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Page 215 - ... the head ; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers