The Family Magazine, Or, General Abstract of Useful Knowledge, Volume 2Redfield & Lindsay, 1835 |
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... earth , That the pale race , who waste us now , Among their bones should guide the plough . The beautiful original picture that graces this volume as a Frontispiece , was designed and drawn by Weir , and engraved by Mr. Linton Thorn ...
... earth , That the pale race , who waste us now , Among their bones should guide the plough . The beautiful original picture that graces this volume as a Frontispiece , was designed and drawn by Weir , and engraved by Mr. Linton Thorn ...
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... Earth 79 398 Potatoes 252 136 Prediction Verified 168 79 Present Sovereign of Persia 175 64 Prison Discipline 320 60 Priapus 76 178 Progress of Society 152 408 Prometheus 198 245 Proserpine 186 88 Pymalion or Pygmalion 118 Chinese ...
... Earth 79 398 Potatoes 252 136 Prediction Verified 168 79 Present Sovereign of Persia 175 64 Prison Discipline 320 60 Priapus 76 178 Progress of Society 152 408 Prometheus 198 245 Proserpine 186 88 Pymalion or Pygmalion 118 Chinese ...
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... earth was divided in the days of Peleg ; and he died but three hundred and forty years after the Flood . Most chronologers concur in the opinion , that it was a hundred and fifty years after that event that the foundation of Babel was ...
... earth was divided in the days of Peleg ; and he died but three hundred and forty years after the Flood . Most chronologers concur in the opinion , that it was a hundred and fifty years after that event that the foundation of Babel was ...
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... earth , that they might not raise seditions among themselves , but might cultivate a great part of the earth , and enjoy its fruits after a plentiful manner . But they were so ill - instructed that they did not obey God ; for which ...
... earth , that they might not raise seditions among themselves , but might cultivate a great part of the earth , and enjoy its fruits after a plentiful manner . But they were so ill - instructed that they did not obey God ; for which ...
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... earth ; and one clings to the breast : one gazes stupified at the coming blow , and one crouches down to avoid the arrow , while another still lives . But the mother , whose tongue once knew no restraint , stands like a statue ...
... earth ; and one clings to the breast : one gazes stupified at the coming blow , and one crouches down to avoid the arrow , while another still lives . But the mother , whose tongue once knew no restraint , stands like a statue ...
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Ababde American American Badger ancient animals appears astronomical Aurochs beautiful birds Bison body called Canaan Captain character Chinese colour death degree descend digitigrade distance earth eclipse Egypt Egyptians Elephant eyes father feet female fire fore four give globe Greek ground hair hand head heaven Hipparchus Hippopotamus horns horse hundred hyæna inches Indian inhabitants island Israelites Jupiter king labour land language legs length light lived longitude manner means ment meridian miles Mizraim moon motion mountains musk ox nations native nature nearly never observed pass Pathrusim Pitcairn's Island plain pole present proteles Ptolemy publick quadrupeds Red Fox reign Rhinoceros river rock says seen Shinar ship side species stars stone supposed surface tail temple thing thou tion traveller trees whole wild wings young
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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