The Family Magazine, Or, General Abstract of Useful Knowledge, Volumul 2Redfield & Lindsay, 1835 |
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... object of the Magazine , that they may understand what the work is for which they subscribe , and thus be satisfied with it afterwards . The principal object of the Family Magazine is , to collect , condense , and systematize the great ...
... object of the Magazine , that they may understand what the work is for which they subscribe , and thus be satisfied with it afterwards . The principal object of the Family Magazine is , to collect , condense , and systematize the great ...
Pagina 3
... object being , to find a country that would suit them . Not a few years , therefore , must have elapsed , from the commencement of their peregrinations to the time of their arrival on the plains of Shinar ; especially , if , as we have ...
... object being , to find a country that would suit them . Not a few years , therefore , must have elapsed , from the commencement of their peregrinations to the time of their arrival on the plains of Shinar ; especially , if , as we have ...
Pagina 7
... objects . On landing , the party discovered a grotto , formed of rocks , the surface of which had been washed smooth by the waves , and having within a spring of fresh water . The only accessible spot in the vicinity was a hill , some ...
... objects . On landing , the party discovered a grotto , formed of rocks , the surface of which had been washed smooth by the waves , and having within a spring of fresh water . The only accessible spot in the vicinity was a hill , some ...
Pagina 9
... object to the reality of the occurrence of these events , we have only to say : -What further proof could there be than has been adduced ? What ancient historical fact can be proved , if these evidences are insufficient to prove the one ...
... object to the reality of the occurrence of these events , we have only to say : -What further proof could there be than has been adduced ? What ancient historical fact can be proved , if these evidences are insufficient to prove the one ...
Pagina 10
... object , so effectually stopped the course of the river , the consequences of the haste with which it was done are said to have broken down certain defensive dykes to the west of the city , and hence those parts ever afterwards became a ...
... object , so effectually stopped the course of the river , the consequences of the haste with which it was done are said to have broken down certain defensive dykes to the west of the city , and hence those parts ever afterwards became a ...
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Pagina 215 - Reading maketh. a full man: conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not.
Pagina 239 - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, That lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, A beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in their graves ; The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, With the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, But the cold November rain Calls not, from out the gloomy earth, The lovely ones again.
Pagina 97 - And he said, thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel : for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Pagina 89 - And yet indeed she is my sister ; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife.
Pagina 97 - But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
Pagina 9 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth ; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Pagina 239 - Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone from upland, glade, and glen. And now when comes the calm mild day — as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home ; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them...
Pagina 64 - STRANGER, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen Enough of all its sorrows, crimes, and cares, To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the haunts of Nature.
Pagina 26 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Pagina 215 - ... the head ; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers