Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge..., Volume 4Redfield and Lindsay, 1837 |
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... usual , held up to true light , keep thee and thine , have mercy on me , the view of the people on either side of the scaffold , and teach me to forgive my persecutors and ac- was put into a red bag , over which his velvet night- cusers ...
... usual , held up to true light , keep thee and thine , have mercy on me , the view of the people on either side of the scaffold , and teach me to forgive my persecutors and ac- was put into a red bag , over which his velvet night- cusers ...
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... usual course . dish - brown , like those of the domestick bird , are When they arrive at a river , they select the high - deposited , sometimes to the number of twenty , but est eminences on its bank , and there remain for a day or more ...
... usual course . dish - brown , like those of the domestick bird , are When they arrive at a river , they select the high - deposited , sometimes to the number of twenty , but est eminences on its bank , and there remain for a day or more ...
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... usual method of computing the mechanical value or efficiency of labour is from the weight it is capable of elevating , to a certain height , in a given time ; the product of these three measures , ( weight , space , and time ...
... usual method of computing the mechanical value or efficiency of labour is from the weight it is capable of elevating , to a certain height , in a given time ; the product of these three measures , ( weight , space , and time ...
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... usual in that country for people to talk of going a journey on a man's back , as it is here to speak of going on horse- back . No humiliating idea is attached to the occu- pation of a man - carrier ; and those who engage in it are not ...
... usual in that country for people to talk of going a journey on a man's back , as it is here to speak of going on horse- back . No humiliating idea is attached to the occu- pation of a man - carrier ; and those who engage in it are not ...
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... usual haunts , the lofty Andes , it is still employed to carry goods . The strongest of these animals will travel , with a load of from one hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds , about fifteen miles a day over the roughest mountains ...
... usual haunts , the lofty Andes , it is still employed to carry goods . The strongest of these animals will travel , with a load of from one hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds , about fifteen miles a day over the roughest mountains ...
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Page 171 - But you who are wise must know, that different nations have different conceptions of things ; and you will therefore not take it amiss, if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same with yours.
Page 313 - Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 300 - Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit ; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Page 223 - In thus admitting their separation from the crown of these kingdoms, I have sacrificed every consideration of my own to the wishes and opinion of my people. I make it my humble and earnest prayer to Almighty God that Great Britain may not feel the evils which might result from so great a dismemberment of the empire...
Page 88 - ... two great stones were brought before Powhatan: then as many as could layd hands on him, dragged him to them, and thereon laid his head, and being ready with their clubs, to beate out his braines, Pocahontas the Kings dearest daughter, when no intreaty could prevaile, got his head in her armes, and laid her owne upon his to save him from death...
Page 171 - ... several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces; they were instructed in all your sciences, but when they came back to us, they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, unable to bear either cold or hunger, knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy, spoke our language imperfectly, were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors, nor counsellors; they were totally good for nothing.
Page 50 - She told me that there was plenty of venison and jerked buffalo meat, and that on removing the ashes I should find a cake. But my watch had struck her fancy, and her curiosity had to be gratified by an immediate sight of it.
Page 223 - I make it my humble and earnest prayer to Almighty God, that Great Britain may not feel the evils which might result from so great a dismemberment of the empire; and that America may be free from...
Page 443 - ... the west, stretching away to the north and the south, it commands a view of the Blue Ridge for a hundred and fifty miles, and brings under the eye one of the boldest and most beautiful horizons in the world; while, on the east, it presents an extent of prospect bounded only by the spherical form of the earth, in which...
Page 246 - Shoals), flanked by numerous gunboats, four frigates, and a battery of guns and mortars on an Island in their Van ; but nothing could withstand the Squadron your Lordship did me the honour to place under my command.