Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge..., Volumen4Redfield and Lindsay, 1837 |
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... course before the New York Lyceum of Natural History , ( extracts from which , will be found in our pages , ) is sufficient , independent of many other claims on the gratitude of the American people , to entitle him to a distinguished ...
... course before the New York Lyceum of Natural History , ( extracts from which , will be found in our pages , ) is sufficient , independent of many other claims on the gratitude of the American people , to entitle him to a distinguished ...
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... course by the Havana and the Gulf of Florida , where they found a continued coast on the west side , tending away ... courses degenerating from the countries as he should discover in property to him- voyage before pretended ; others ...
... course by the Havana and the Gulf of Florida , where they found a continued coast on the west side , tending away ... courses degenerating from the countries as he should discover in property to him- voyage before pretended ; others ...
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... course , they made the West Indies ; and , departing thence on the 10th of July , found themselves in shoal - water , discerning their approach to the lands by the delicious fragrance with which the air was loaded " as if , " to use the ...
... course , they made the West Indies ; and , departing thence on the 10th of July , found themselves in shoal - water , discerning their approach to the lands by the delicious fragrance with which the air was loaded " as if , " to use the ...
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... course of which the Rev. Dr. Chandler , of New Jersey , appealed to the publick in favour of this great object . But the times were unpropitious . Political difficulties had arisen between the colonies and the mother - country ; and ...
... course of which the Rev. Dr. Chandler , of New Jersey , appealed to the publick in favour of this great object . But the times were unpropitious . Political difficulties had arisen between the colonies and the mother - country ; and ...
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... course of a day . PLANTS OF NEW HOLLAND . THE New Holland Lily ( Doryanthes excelsa ) is one of the most stately of the vegetable kingdom . It grows to the height of twenty or twenty - five feet , bearing on its crown blossoms of the ...
... course of a day . PLANTS OF NEW HOLLAND . THE New Holland Lily ( Doryanthes excelsa ) is one of the most stately of the vegetable kingdom . It grows to the height of twenty or twenty - five feet , bearing on its crown blossoms of the ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.