The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 3Francis S. Wiggins, 1833 |
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... length , between my eye and the stars ; sliding the beads upon it till they hid such and such stars from my eye , in order to take their apparent distances from one another ; and then laying the thread down on a paper , I marked the ...
... length , between my eye and the stars ; sliding the beads upon it till they hid such and such stars from my eye , in order to take their apparent distances from one another ; and then laying the thread down on a paper , I marked the ...
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... length brought the party , by another avenue , to the chief city again , after having traversed different avenues for more than five miles . Having reposed for a few moments on slabs of limestone near the centre of this gloomy area ...
... length brought the party , by another avenue , to the chief city again , after having traversed different avenues for more than five miles . Having reposed for a few moments on slabs of limestone near the centre of this gloomy area ...
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... length . They vary much more in color than the round , some of them being streaked with yellow . Other varieties are described as being found in India ; but the seeds that have been sent to this country have produced fruit similar to ...
... length . They vary much more in color than the round , some of them being streaked with yellow . Other varieties are described as being found in India ; but the seeds that have been sent to this country have produced fruit similar to ...
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... lengths behind , And though sometimes they near approach the sun , Sometimes beyond our system's orbit run , Throughout ... length of time in which they are performing their revolutions , and the short stay they make within sight of our ...
... lengths behind , And though sometimes they near approach the sun , Sometimes beyond our system's orbit run , Throughout ... length of time in which they are performing their revolutions , and the short stay they make within sight of our ...
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... length by six miles in breadth . D. E. Clarke , by whom it was visited rather more than twenty years since , describes it as longer and finer than the Cumberland and Westmoreland lakes , although it yields in majesty to the stupendous ...
... length by six miles in breadth . D. E. Clarke , by whom it was visited rather more than twenty years since , describes it as longer and finer than the Cumberland and Westmoreland lakes , although it yields in majesty to the stupendous ...
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Popular passages
Page 29 - Thou shalt ° not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Page 348 - And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
Page 180 - Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green, So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Page 226 - And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up, and thrust Him out of the city, and led Him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast Him down headlong.
Page 210 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of swedt harmony.
Page 140 - It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves ; springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Page 144 - If Thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Page 57 - Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow ? or will he harrow the valleys after thee...
Page 210 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 403 - It is a happy world after all. The air, the earth, the water, teem with delighted existence. In a spring noon, or a summer evening, on whichever side I turn my eyes, myriads of happy beings crowd upon my view. " The insect youth are on the wing.