The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volumul 3Francis S. Wiggins, 1833 |
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Pagina 6
... seems to have given his mind its first bias to what became afterwards its favor- ite kind of pursuit . The roof of the cottage having partly fallen in , his father , in order to raise it again , ap- plied to it a beam , resting on a ...
... seems to have given his mind its first bias to what became afterwards its favor- ite kind of pursuit . The roof of the cottage having partly fallen in , his father , in order to raise it again , ap- plied to it a beam , resting on a ...
Pagina 14
... seems to have been constructed as Reaumur describes his nest , with the occasional addition of small stones . It is in instances such as thesc , which exhibit the adapt- ation of instinct to circumstances , that our reason finds . the ...
... seems to have been constructed as Reaumur describes his nest , with the occasional addition of small stones . It is in instances such as thesc , which exhibit the adapt- ation of instinct to circumstances , that our reason finds . the ...
Pagina 19
... seems knew very little of their nature . Seneca relates his having seen three : but they were merely considered , both by him and his cotemporaries , as wandering stars , or fiery meteors , generated of bituminous exhalations from the ...
... seems knew very little of their nature . Seneca relates his having seen three : but they were merely considered , both by him and his cotemporaries , as wandering stars , or fiery meteors , generated of bituminous exhalations from the ...
Pagina 20
... seems to have been almost coeval with time itself , is supposed to have its foundation in the sacred writings . The comet of 1680 , is supposed to be the one intend- ed to perform this dreadful operation : the period of its re- turn is ...
... seems to have been almost coeval with time itself , is supposed to have its foundation in the sacred writings . The comet of 1680 , is supposed to be the one intend- ed to perform this dreadful operation : the period of its re- turn is ...
Pagina 43
... seem to indicate , that mighty movements and vast operations are continually going on in the distant regions of creation , under the superintendence of the Sovereign of the Universe , upon a scale of magni- tude and grandeur which ...
... seem to indicate , that mighty movements and vast operations are continually going on in the distant regions of creation , under the superintendence of the Sovereign of the Universe , upon a scale of magni- tude and grandeur which ...
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Ajalon ancient animal appear arch Asphaltites beautiful body breath bright called cataract Christian church clouds covered cultivated dark dead Dead Sea death deep delightful distance earth Egypt Falls father feel feet fire flowers friends fruit Gibeon glory grave hath heart heaven height hills holy Horseshoe Fall human hundred inhabitants insect island Jericho Jordan Josephus Judea lake Lake George land lava light living lofty Lord miles mind moon Mount mountain mouth Nassau Hall nature nearly never night o'er observed Palestine pass plain plants pleasure present rise river river Ta rock round ruins scene Scriptures seen side situated soul species spirit spot spring stars stone Strabo stream summit surrounded Tattler Tentyra thee thing thou thought thousand tion tivated Torre del Greco town traveller trees valley volcano walls whole winds wings
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Pagina 29 - Thou shalt ° not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Pagina 348 - And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
Pagina 180 - Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green, So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Pagina 226 - And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up, and thrust Him out of the city, and led Him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast Him down headlong.
Pagina 210 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of swedt harmony.
Pagina 140 - It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves ; springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Pagina 144 - If Thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Pagina 57 - Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow ? or will he harrow the valleys after thee...
Pagina 210 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Pagina 403 - It is a happy world after all. The air, the earth, the water, teem with delighted existence. In a spring noon, or a summer evening, on whichever side I turn my eyes, myriads of happy beings crowd upon my view. " The insect youth are on the wing.