Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General KnowledgeRedfield and Lindsay, 1837 |
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... side each of my heavy birds in succession , together with my gun , powder - flask , and shot - bag , and drawing my hunting - knife from its scabbard , to defend myself , if need should be , against alligators , I entered the water ...
... side each of my heavy birds in succession , together with my gun , powder - flask , and shot - bag , and drawing my hunting - knife from its scabbard , to defend myself , if need should be , against alligators , I entered the water ...
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... side , from the height called La Viste , in , ably . The cathedral church , supposed to be the oldest form of a ... sides inces . The line of building from the gate of Aix , indented with a curious and picturesque diversity , by which ...
... side , from the height called La Viste , in , ably . The cathedral church , supposed to be the oldest form of a ... sides inces . The line of building from the gate of Aix , indented with a curious and picturesque diversity , by which ...
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... side , making twenty in all . The grinders are composed of three bony plates , divided by two partitions of enamel , and the whole surrounded by a thick coating of the same . The structure of these being very curious , we have much ...
... side , making twenty in all . The grinders are composed of three bony plates , divided by two partitions of enamel , and the whole surrounded by a thick coating of the same . The structure of these being very curious , we have much ...
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... side of the mortar to the spout , f . The beam , i , is about sixteen feet long , and six inches thick , and is cut from any large tree that is divided by a fork into two arms . A hollow circle is made in the fork by the mortar , round ...
... side of the mortar to the spout , f . The beam , i , is about sixteen feet long , and six inches thick , and is cut from any large tree that is divided by a fork into two arms . A hollow circle is made in the fork by the mortar , round ...
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... side . No effect of vocal musick can exceed this of so many voices at such varied distances and positions ; and when ... sides by swarms of moschetoes , so that it was impossible to have one moment's quiet . Those who had covered ...
... side . No effect of vocal musick can exceed this of so many voices at such varied distances and positions ; and when ... sides by swarms of moschetoes , so that it was impossible to have one moment's quiet . Those who had covered ...
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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.
Page 113 - Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
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.
Page 99 - But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers...
Page 114 - It comes, if it come at all, like the outbreaking of a fountain from the earth, or the bursting forth of volcanic fires, with spontaneous, original, native force.
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...
Page 355 - And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.
Page 23 - In thus admitting their separation from the crown of these kingdoms, I have sacrificed every consideration of my own to the wishes and opinion of my people. 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...
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.