Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge, Volume 3Redfield and Lindsay, 1836 |
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... periods , in fact , double and triple stars . and are hence called variable stars . Fixed stars are known from the planets by their twinkling . They are called fixed and luminous , because they appear to have no proper motion of their ...
... periods , in fact , double and triple stars . and are hence called variable stars . Fixed stars are known from the planets by their twinkling . They are called fixed and luminous , because they appear to have no proper motion of their ...
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... period of 1200 years ; Bootes , of 1681 years ; Serpentis , of 375 years ; Virginis , of 708 years ; and so of the rest - but the life of one man is evi- dently too short to attain correct results , in regard to periods so ...
... period of 1200 years ; Bootes , of 1681 years ; Serpentis , of 375 years ; Virginis , of 708 years ; and so of the rest - but the life of one man is evi- dently too short to attain correct results , in regard to periods so ...
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... period of childhood . " SLAVE TRADE OF BRAZIL . The number of slaves imported in Rio de Janeiro in the years- 1820 - 15,020 1821 - 24,134 1822 - 27,363 EXPORTS OF RIO DE JANEIRO . In 1834 , 16,013 cases , 957 boxes , 13,206 barrels ...
... period of childhood . " SLAVE TRADE OF BRAZIL . The number of slaves imported in Rio de Janeiro in the years- 1820 - 15,020 1821 - 24,134 1822 - 27,363 EXPORTS OF RIO DE JANEIRO . In 1834 , 16,013 cases , 957 boxes , 13,206 barrels ...
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... period of which I am now writing the moon shed its pale light throughout the day , so like the cold frosty nights of January in England , that we could only distinguish the diurnal part of our existence by the usual meal hours which ...
... period of which I am now writing the moon shed its pale light throughout the day , so like the cold frosty nights of January in England , that we could only distinguish the diurnal part of our existence by the usual meal hours which ...
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... period , notice was given that a grand Venetian carnival or masquerade would be held on indirectly - through the medium of one , two , and board the Fury , to commence at six in the evening , and sanctioned by authority . It was also ...
... period , notice was given that a grand Venetian carnival or masquerade would be held on indirectly - through the medium of one , two , and board the Fury , to commence at six in the evening , and sanctioned by authority . It was also ...
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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.