The Saturday Magazine, Volume 16J. W. Parker, 1840 |
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... Figures from the Panathenaic frieze , 217 , 233 Floating timber in Lombardy , 9 Gad - fly , 221 Galvanic battery , section of a , 220 illustration of , 228 Gate and fountain of Bab - el - Ouad , 40 Genoa , from the ramparts , 113 ...
... Figures from the Panathenaic frieze , 217 , 233 Floating timber in Lombardy , 9 Gad - fly , 221 Galvanic battery , section of a , 220 illustration of , 228 Gate and fountain of Bab - el - Ouad , 40 Genoa , from the ramparts , 113 ...
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... figures of men and animals . The differing opinions of travellers with respect to the antiquity of the ruins still remaining in this place , and the great uncertainty which must always exist on the subject , are in themselves sufficient ...
... figures of men and animals . The differing opinions of travellers with respect to the antiquity of the ruins still remaining in this place , and the great uncertainty which must always exist on the subject , are in themselves sufficient ...
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... FIGURES . AMONG the substances which have been employed as materials for forming imitations of animals , flowers , & c . , not the least pleasing , in the effects which it produces , is wax . There are at the present day , and have been ...
... FIGURES . AMONG the substances which have been employed as materials for forming imitations of animals , flowers , & c . , not the least pleasing , in the effects which it produces , is wax . There are at the present day , and have been ...
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... figures in wax ; and these modes are different , according to the nature of the figure to be made . For some purposes a composition is made of four parts wax , three parts white turpentine , and some olive oil or hog's lard , suitably ...
... figures in wax ; and these modes are different , according to the nature of the figure to be made . For some purposes a composition is made of four parts wax , three parts white turpentine , and some olive oil or hog's lard , suitably ...
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... figures : and under the arch is a custom house and a guard , which used to con- tain several instruments of barbarous punishment . Pass- ing through the gate we enter the best street in Algiers , which is not more than ten feet wide ...
... figures : and under the arch is a custom house and a guard , which used to con- tain several instruments of barbarous punishment . Pass- ing through the gate we enter the best street in Algiers , which is not more than ten feet wide ...
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Página 159 - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Página 96 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
Página 122 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Página 30 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...
Página 11 - geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy...
Página 7 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Página 171 - As if here were those cooler shades of love. Can such delights be in the street And open fields, and we not see't ? Come we'll abroad : and let's obey The proclamation made for May...
Página 120 - Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations. It softens and polishes the manners of men. It unites them by one of the strongest of all ties, the desire of supplying their mutual wants.
Página 45 - One alone, the red-breast, sacred to the household gods, wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, in joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves his shivering mates, and pays to trusted man his annual visit. Half afraid, he first, against the window beats; then brisk alights on the warm hearth; then hopping o'er the floor, eyes all the smiling family askance, and pecks and starts and wonders where he is; till more familiar grown, the table crumbs attract his slender feet.
Página 13 - And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds; for he shall uncover the cedar work.