The Saturday Magazine, Volume 1J. W. Parker, 1833 |
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... ground , as , even if they failed to reach it , a sudden would be better than a lingering death - in this dire extremity , one of these despairing creatures , to hold himself more firmly to the rock , grasped a weed , which , even wet ...
... ground , as , even if they failed to reach it , a sudden would be better than a lingering death - in this dire extremity , one of these despairing creatures , to hold himself more firmly to the rock , grasped a weed , which , even wet ...
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... ground , 46 feet 10 inches , -at one yard high , 39 feet 10 inches .-- Estimated age , 1500 years . To the natural historian no subject is more interesting than the still life memoirs of the vegetable world . He finds no retrospects ...
... ground , 46 feet 10 inches , -at one yard high , 39 feet 10 inches .-- Estimated age , 1500 years . To the natural historian no subject is more interesting than the still life memoirs of the vegetable world . He finds no retrospects ...
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... ground , is twenty - nine feet ; at one yard from the bottom , twenty - four feet seven inches ; at two yards high , eighteen feet six inches ; and at three yards from the ground , the circumference is sixteen feet two inches . Major ...
... ground , is twenty - nine feet ; at one yard from the bottom , twenty - four feet seven inches ; at two yards high , eighteen feet six inches ; and at three yards from the ground , the circumference is sixteen feet two inches . Major ...
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... ground , is his bed at night , and his pack - saddle is his pillow . His low but clean - limbed and sinewy form betoken strength ; his complexion is dark and sun - burnt ; his eye resolute , but quiet in its expression , except when ...
... ground , is his bed at night , and his pack - saddle is his pillow . His low but clean - limbed and sinewy form betoken strength ; his complexion is dark and sun - burnt ; his eye resolute , but quiet in its expression , except when ...
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... ground . Seve- striking an illustration of the sagacity of the elephant , ral shots were fired , one of which slightly touched the may be strictly depended upon . largest of them , who immediately turned round , and roaring furiously ...
... ground . Seve- striking an illustration of the sagacity of the elephant , ral shots were fired , one of which slightly touched the may be strictly depended upon . largest of them , who immediately turned round , and roaring furiously ...
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Page 34 - And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Page 106 - ... the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.
Page 226 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
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Page 65 - For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Page 15 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 106 - In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace : and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Page 44 - And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
Page 152 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill...
Page 192 - Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth, often die before us: and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching; where, though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away.