Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General KnowledgeRedfield and Lindsay, 1837 |
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... half Their complexions are usually less fair and blooming inches . St. Peter's , a new Episcopal church , is than those of northern females , but southern bru- also a neat and chaste edifice , built in more modern netts are often very ...
... half Their complexions are usually less fair and blooming inches . St. Peter's , a new Episcopal church , is than those of northern females , but southern bru- also a neat and chaste edifice , built in more modern netts are often very ...
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... half an hour , the waves returned with a furious roaring , dashed against the quays , threatened to inundate the town , and then resumed their usual limits and tranquillity , leaving all the ships uninjured and afloat . AVOPS nation A ...
... half an hour , the waves returned with a furious roaring , dashed against the quays , threatened to inundate the town , and then resumed their usual limits and tranquillity , leaving all the ships uninjured and afloat . AVOPS nation A ...
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... half notion , for we may be sure that the sedateness and a dozen words what seems to take them a hundred , sobriety which really characterize them , would by the cause of which is , their words are so immeas- no means have us consider ...
... half notion , for we may be sure that the sedateness and a dozen words what seems to take them a hundred , sobriety which really characterize them , would by the cause of which is , their words are so immeas- no means have us consider ...
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... half only of their motion , which is necessary in It was the opinion of Smeaton that the powers the horizontal windmill , where a screen is employ- necessary to produce the same effect on an under - ed for covering them while they are ...
... half only of their motion , which is necessary in It was the opinion of Smeaton that the powers the horizontal windmill , where a screen is employ- necessary to produce the same effect on an under - ed for covering them while they are ...
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... half a mile ; and thus their mellow notes advanced , swelled and receded - dying away in the distance ; then rising , varying , and swelling in fuller concert advancing up the field to the die again , while the voice of the first alone ...
... half a mile ; and thus their mellow notes advanced , swelled and receded - dying away in the distance ; then rising , varying , and swelling in fuller concert advancing up the field to the die again , while the voice of the first alone ...
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Page 449 - York, as their medical department, under the name of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in the City of New York.
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Page 100 - As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
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Page 355 - And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee. "And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.
Page 23 - I make it my humble and earnest prayer to Almighty God, that Great Britain may not feel the evils which might result from so great a dismemberment of the empire; and that America may be free from...
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Page 50 - I do hereby in his majesty's name, offer and promise his most gracious pardon, to all persons who shall forthwith lay down their arms, and return to the duties of peaceable subjects, excepting only from the benefit of such pardon, SAMUEL ADAMS and JOHN HANCOCK, whose offences are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment.