Mental Improvement: Or, The Beauties and Wonders of Nature and Art. In a Series of Instructive ConversationsHarvey and Darton, Gracechurch-Street, 1828 - 243 |
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... regarded as ex- traordinary at the time it happened ; and that the historian , desirous of transmitting the fame of his native country to posterity , has enlarged the fact , and related it in the glowing colours 4 MENTAL IMPROVEMENT .
... regarded as ex- traordinary at the time it happened ; and that the historian , desirous of transmitting the fame of his native country to posterity , has enlarged the fact , and related it in the glowing colours 4 MENTAL IMPROVEMENT .
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... colours of fiction . In this light I consider the de- scription of Hiero's vessel . But to return to the simple inventions of the earliest naviga- tors : the various tribes of savage nations that inhabit the sea - coast , will throw the ...
... colours of fiction . In this light I consider the de- scription of Hiero's vessel . But to return to the simple inventions of the earliest naviga- tors : the various tribes of savage nations that inhabit the sea - coast , will throw the ...
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... colour , containing each a kernel : these are the seeds by which the plant is propa- gated . Several of these are put promis- cuously into a hole , four or five inches deep , at proper distances from each other , and re- quire MENTAL ...
... colour , containing each a kernel : these are the seeds by which the plant is propa- gated . Several of these are put promis- cuously into a hole , four or five inches deep , at proper distances from each other , and re- quire MENTAL ...
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... colour , ex- tremely beautiful ; and the pods , which when green are much like a cucumber , proceed im- mediately from all parts of the body and larger branches . Each pod may contain from twenty to thirty nuts or kernels , not unlike ...
... colour , ex- tremely beautiful ; and the pods , which when green are much like a cucumber , proceed im- mediately from all parts of the body and larger branches . Each pod may contain from twenty to thirty nuts or kernels , not unlike ...
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... colour : of these four drugs , ground between two stones , and mixed together in a certain proportion , they made a kind of bread , which served them equally for solid food and for drink , eating it when hun- gry , and steeping it in ...
... colour : of these four drugs , ground between two stones , and mixed together in a certain proportion , they made a kind of bread , which served them equally for solid food and for drink , eating it when hun- gry , and steeping it in ...
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Strona 136 - Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles: halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head...
Strona 136 - Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice ; and yon' tall, anchoring bark, Diminished to her cock ; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight.
Strona 37 - The tea leaves, being gathered, are cured in houses which contain from five to ten or twenty small furnaces, about three feet high, each having at the top a large, flat, iron pan. There is also a long, low table, covered with mats, on which the leaves are laid, and rolled by workmen, who sit round it. The iron pan being heated to a certain degree by a little fire made in the furnace underneath, a few pounds of the...
Strona 156 - He was a very merops apiaster, or bee-bird, and very injurious to men that kept bees; for he would slide into their bee-gardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out. He has been known to overturn hives for the sake of honey, of which he was passionately fond.
Strona 133 - They have besides a small line fastened to the body of the adventurer, by which he gives signals that they may lower or raise him, or shift him from place to place. The last operation is attended with great danger, by the...
Strona 80 - Has roll'da mighty world, or shin'da sun : Stupendous thought ! how sinks all human race ! A point, an atom in the field of space ! Yet ev'n to us, O LORD, thy care extends, Thy bounty feeds us, and thy pow'r defends ; Yet...
Strona 38 - ... of their hands in one direction, while others are fanning them, that they may cool the more speedily, and retain their curl the longer.
Strona 38 - ... are fanning them, that they may cool the more speedily, and retain their curl the longer. This process is repeated two or three times, or oftener, before the tea is put into the stores, in order that all the moisture of the leaves may be thoroughly dissipated, and their curl more completely preserved.
Strona 181 - ... in that identical spot, whether it be in* a tree or in the crevice of a rock, or, as is most commonly the case, in the earth.