Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge..., Volumul 4Redfield and Lindsay, 1837 |
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... remarkable vegetable productions , & c . , & c . , amounting to five hundred or upward , have justly given to the Family Magazine , a value , far beyond the price demanded for it . In regard to literary matter , the Family Magazine is ...
... remarkable vegetable productions , & c . , & c . , amounting to five hundred or upward , have justly given to the Family Magazine , a value , far beyond the price demanded for it . In regard to literary matter , the Family Magazine is ...
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... remarkable for ease and civility . The in warm water . The natives expressed astonish- lady was a handsome little woman , extremely bash - ment at the whiteness of their skins , and kindly pat- ful . She wore a leathern mantle , with ...
... remarkable for ease and civility . The in warm water . The natives expressed astonish- lady was a handsome little woman , extremely bash - ment at the whiteness of their skins , and kindly pat- ful . She wore a leathern mantle , with ...
Pagina 12
... remarkable for the energy of its move- ments ; for they are seen to ascend channels at Ket- tle's Falls , into which a stone as large as a man's head , when dropped , is born downwards with the swift- ness of an arrow , and where it is ...
... remarkable for the energy of its move- ments ; for they are seen to ascend channels at Ket- tle's Falls , into which a stone as large as a man's head , when dropped , is born downwards with the swift- ness of an arrow , and where it is ...
Pagina 20
... remarkable for having among its leaves ascidia , or pitcher - shaped vessels , holding several ounces of a slightly - sweet watery fluid ; the lid of the pitcher is sometimes found accurately closed , at other times it has an erect ...
... remarkable for having among its leaves ascidia , or pitcher - shaped vessels , holding several ounces of a slightly - sweet watery fluid ; the lid of the pitcher is sometimes found accurately closed , at other times it has an erect ...
Pagina 46
... remarkable , both being raised to the same an it is a ticklish implement as it may return and height , and so smoothly raked down that it would strike himself , but the native can inflict with it the puzzle the nicest observer to ...
... remarkable , both being raised to the same an it is a ticklish implement as it may return and height , and so smoothly raked down that it would strike himself , but the native can inflict with it the puzzle the nicest observer to ...
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American animal appearance Arabian horses arms beautiful birds body boiling bones cacique called centre cochlea colour cotton covered diameter Dighton Rock distance dry rot earth effect electrick feet fifty fire fish five flowers foramen rotundum Fort Orange four give glass gold governour ground half hand head height Hernando de Soto horses hundred inches Indians inhabitants interiour island labour land leaves length Madagascar manner ment miles motion mountain muscles native nature nearly neck night observed paper passed Peru piece plant Pocahontas pounds Powhatan present preserved produced publick quantity remarkable river rock Samuel Adams seen semicircular canals ship side skin soon Spaniards species stone surface thick tion town trees tribe tube turpentine twelve twenty tympanum varnish vertebral column vessel whole wood young
Pasaje populare
Pagina 171 - But you who are wise must know, that different nations have different conceptions of things ; and you will therefore not take it amiss, if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same with yours.
Pagina 313 - 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.
Pagina 300 - Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit ; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Pagina 223 - 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...
Pagina 88 - ... two great stones were brought before Powhatan: then as many as could layd hands on him, dragged him to them, and thereon laid his head, and being ready with their clubs, to beate out his braines, Pocahontas the Kings dearest daughter, when no intreaty could prevaile, got his head in her armes, and laid her owne upon his to save him from death...
Pagina 171 - ... several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces; they were instructed in all your sciences, but when they came back to us, they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, unable to bear either cold or hunger, knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy, spoke our language imperfectly, were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors, nor counsellors; they were totally good for nothing.
Pagina 50 - She told me that there was plenty of venison and jerked buffalo meat, and that on removing the ashes I should find a cake. But my watch had struck her fancy, and her curiosity had to be gratified by an immediate sight of it.
Pagina 223 - 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...
Pagina 443 - ... the west, stretching away to the north and the south, it commands a view of the Blue Ridge for a hundred and fifty miles, and brings under the eye one of the boldest and most beautiful horizons in the world; while, on the east, it presents an extent of prospect bounded only by the spherical form of the earth, in which...
Pagina 246 - Shoals), flanked by numerous gunboats, four frigates, and a battery of guns and mortars on an Island in their Van ; but nothing could withstand the Squadron your Lordship did me the honour to place under my command.