Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge, Volume 7Redfield and Lindsay, 1840 |
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... feet of Porcupine 171 Tell's chapel at Kusnacht 340 . Christ 349 Rose of Sharon 173 Jerusalem from the mount of Ruth and Naomi 389 Porpoise 209 Olives of } 381 Miriam celebrating the Scorpion 210 Mosque of David 384 deliverance of ...
... feet of Porcupine 171 Tell's chapel at Kusnacht 340 . Christ 349 Rose of Sharon 173 Jerusalem from the mount of Ruth and Naomi 389 Porpoise 209 Olives of } 381 Miriam celebrating the Scorpion 210 Mosque of David 384 deliverance of ...
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... feet by three , four feet by two , or four feet by one and a half ; the first will give three thousand six hundred and thirty trees to the acre ; the second five thousand thousand two hundred and sixty . At either of four hundred and ...
... feet by three , four feet by two , or four feet by one and a half ; the first will give three thousand six hundred and thirty trees to the acre ; the second five thousand thousand two hundred and sixty . At either of four hundred and ...
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... feet to be put in the stocks . A public meeting was requested of the inhabitants Such an event would , in an ordinary and unex - at Belt's , * on the 20th instant , for the purpose of cited condition of the country , have occasioned ...
... feet to be put in the stocks . A public meeting was requested of the inhabitants Such an event would , in an ordinary and unex - at Belt's , * on the 20th instant , for the purpose of cited condition of the country , have occasioned ...
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... feet in diameter , seventy - five feet of which are entirely of glass . Its form is that of a polyglon , with sixteen faces , each twen- ty - five feet ; so that the circumference of the building is four hundred feet . The length of the ...
... feet in diameter , seventy - five feet of which are entirely of glass . Its form is that of a polyglon , with sixteen faces , each twen- ty - five feet ; so that the circumference of the building is four hundred feet . The length of the ...
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... feet in height , but after proceeding a few yards in a southwest direction , it becomes contracted to the space of four feet square . At the distance of twenty - four feet from the entrance , descending at an angle of nineteen degrees ...
... feet in height , but after proceeding a few yards in a southwest direction , it becomes contracted to the space of four feet square . At the distance of twenty - four feet from the entrance , descending at an angle of nineteen degrees ...
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Page 348 - And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
Page 21 - And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
Page 322 - It is with narrow-souled people as with narrownecked bottles ; the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.
Page 50 - often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the president, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting ; but now, at length, I have the happiness to know that it is a rising, and not a setting sun.
Page 342 - In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
Page 110 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously ; the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 122 - Heaven, and glances at that divinely consoling proclamation, " come unto me all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest:" The ruin of the steeple is about thirty feet high, and mantled, to its very summit, with ivy.
Page 434 - Vaccinae, A Disease Discovered in Some of the Western Counties of England. Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of the Cow Pox...
Page 384 - Those chimes that tell a thousand tales, Sweet tales of olden time ! And ring a thousand memories At vesper, and at prime ; At bridal and at burial, For cottager and king — Those chimes — those glorious Christian chimes, How blessedly they ring...
Page 348 - Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair : and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.