The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volume 15Treuttel and Würtz, Treuttel, Jun, and Richter, 1835 |
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... called the Sargasso Sea , from the vast quantities of sea - weed , fucus sargasso , Gmel . , which is identical with the fucus natans . of Turn , and Lin . , he expresses his conviction , contrary to the opinion of Von Humboldt and ...
... called the Sargasso Sea , from the vast quantities of sea - weed , fucus sargasso , Gmel . , which is identical with the fucus natans . of Turn , and Lin . , he expresses his conviction , contrary to the opinion of Von Humboldt and ...
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... called the Quesaria , a small hut , resembling , as it seems , the chalets of Switzerland , where a few persons pass the summer in making cheese . They estimated its elevation above the level of the sea at nine thousand feet . We ...
... called the Quesaria , a small hut , resembling , as it seems , the chalets of Switzerland , where a few persons pass the summer in making cheese . They estimated its elevation above the level of the sea at nine thousand feet . We ...
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... called condor . We immediately alighted and went up to them with a double - barrel gun . They very quietly suffered us to come up till we were within 200 paces of them , when one after the other hopped off and took their station at some ...
... called condor . We immediately alighted and went up to them with a double - barrel gun . They very quietly suffered us to come up till we were within 200 paces of them , when one after the other hopped off and took their station at some ...
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... called Altos de Toledo , which he was assured would not be very fatiguing , but the result proved the inaccuracy of this information . On the tops of the mountains enclosing the valley through which the travellers passed to reach the ...
... called Altos de Toledo , which he was assured would not be very fatiguing , but the result proved the inaccuracy of this information . On the tops of the mountains enclosing the valley through which the travellers passed to reach the ...
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... called it Cactus Arequi- pensis . " In this deserted spot there is however at Tambo a post - house and a very good inn , where every thing is indeed very dear , but , as Dr. Meyen observes , this is not to be wondered at , as this Tambo ...
... called it Cactus Arequi- pensis . " In this deserted spot there is however at Tambo a post - house and a very good inn , where every thing is indeed very dear , but , as Dr. Meyen observes , this is not to be wondered at , as this Tambo ...
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Página 250 - It is the maxim of every prudent master of a family, never to attempt to make at home what it will cost him more to make than to buy.
Página 252 - The industry of the society can augment only in proportion as its capital augments, and its capital can augment only in proportion to what can be gradually saved out of its revenue.
Página 256 - Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
Página 55 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Página 289 - And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
Página 49 - Mentre che io canto, o Iddio redentore, Vedo la Italia tutta a fiama ea foco Per questi Galli, che con gran valore Vengon per disertar non so che loco...
Página 183 - ... and for wages which are little more than sufficient to support a somewhat cheerless and hopeless life. Agriculture has in this way been destroyed in some of the Eastern States, and, what is worse, so has commerce. Touching the effects of protection on New England, Mr. Atkinson says, in the admirable pamphlet the title of which stands at the head of this article : — " I think Boston to-day affords a good illustration of the evils of protection. The conditions of soil, climate, and coast indicated...
Página 256 - Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
Página 250 - What is prudence in the conduct of every private family, can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. If a foreign country can supply us with a commodity cheaper than we ourselves can make it, better buy it of them with some part of the produce of our oWn industry, employed in a way in which we have some advantage.
Página 325 - It is, in fine, the table land between the waters of Hudson's Bay and the Mexican Gulf. It also gives rise to the remotest tributaries of the River St. Louis, which, through Lake Superior and its connecting chain, may be considered as furnishing the head waters of the St. Lawrence.