Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge, Volume 3Redfield and Lindsay, 1836 |
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... inches above its surface . Glass jars , bell glasses , tubes , or bot- tles , may be filled with water by reclining ... inch of water . vessels or saucers , and surrounding them with about These operations are simple and ceeding in their ...
... inches above its surface . Glass jars , bell glasses , tubes , or bot- tles , may be filled with water by reclining ... inch of water . vessels or saucers , and surrounding them with about These operations are simple and ceeding in their ...
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... inches of the latter weighing 30.5 grains , and of the former about 3 grains more or 33.8 . We will here explain , once for all , that in speak- ing of the weight of gases , we shall always suppose the barometer to stand at 30 inches ...
... inches of the latter weighing 30.5 grains , and of the former about 3 grains more or 33.8 . We will here explain , once for all , that in speak- ing of the weight of gases , we shall always suppose the barometer to stand at 30 inches ...
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... inch planks of the hardest deal , reverts to that insignificant portion of the universe placed at the distance of an inch ... inches thick . " Perkins is still in England , and his industrious inge- nuity is still employed in multiplying ...
... inch planks of the hardest deal , reverts to that insignificant portion of the universe placed at the distance of an inch ... inches thick . " Perkins is still in England , and his industrious inge- nuity is still employed in multiplying ...
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... inches in progress of refinement commences . width , and the upper end small and smooth , to render the instrument more convenient for the hand . Mandarins of power have usually some persons in their train , who attend them with these ...
... inches in progress of refinement commences . width , and the upper end small and smooth , to render the instrument more convenient for the hand . Mandarins of power have usually some persons in their train , who attend them with these ...
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... inches apart - taking forty - five bushels - covered them and hoed them three times . Having a most wonderful growth of stalks in due season , my expectations were considerably aroused in relation to the crop . the ground filled with ...
... inches apart - taking forty - five bushels - covered them and hoed them three times . Having a most wonderful growth of stalks in due season , my expectations were considerably aroused in relation to the crop . the ground filled with ...
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Page 471 - Is this a time to be cloudy and sad, When our mother Nature laughs around ; When even the deep blue heavens look glad, And gladness breathes from the blossoming ground ? There are notes of joy from the hang-bird and wren, And the gossip of swallows through all the sky ; The ground-squirrel gaily chirps by his den, And the wilding bee hums merrily by.
Page 138 - And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
Page 273 - Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you ; even as the green herb have I given you all things. But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat.
Page 99 - Close in her covert cowered the doe; The falcon, from her cairn on high, Cast on the rout a wondering eye, Till far beyond her piercing ken The hurricane had swept the glen. Faint, and more faint, its failing din Returned from cavern, cliff, and linn, And silence settled, wide and still, On the lone wood and mighty hill.
Page 429 - Had cheered the village with his song ; Nor yet at eve his note suspended, Nor yet when eventide was ended, Began to feel, as well he might, The keen demands of appetite ; When, looking eagerly around, He spied far off, upon the ground, A something shining in the dark, And knew the glow-worm by his spark ; So, stooping down from hawthorn top, He thought to put him in his crop. The worm, aware of his intent, Harangued him thus, right eloquent — Did you admire my lamp...
Page 455 - Jove Now burns with glory, and then melts with love; Now his fierce eyes with sparkling fury glow, Now sighs steal out, and tears begin to flow: Persians and Greeks like turns of nature found, And the world's victor stood subdued by sound ! The power of music all our hearts allow, And what Timotheus was, is DRYDEN now.
Page 471 - There's a dance of leaves in that aspen bower, There's a titter of winds in that beechen tree. There's a smile on the fruit, and a smile on the flower, And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea.
Page 236 - The rebels — more's the pity, "Without a boat are all afloat, "And rang'd before the city. "The motley crew, in vessels new, " With Satan for their guide, sir. "Pack'd up in bags, or wooden kegs, "Come driving down the tide, sir. "Therefore prepare for bloody war, "These kegs must all be routed, "Or surely we despised shall be, "And British courage doubted.
Page 6 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.