The Contemplative Philosopher: Or, Short Essays on the Various Objects of Nature Throughout the Year; with Poetical Illus., and Moral Reflections on Each Subject, Tom 2Sherwood, Neely & Jones, 1817 |
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... bed of sand , and selects , grain by grain , the kind which is best to answer her purpose . With her teeth , which are as large and as strong as those of the honey - bee , she examines and brings together several grains . But sand alone ...
... bed of sand , and selects , grain by grain , the kind which is best to answer her purpose . With her teeth , which are as large and as strong as those of the honey - bee , she examines and brings together several grains . But sand alone ...
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... bed , and see The dew bespangling herb and tree : Each flow'r has wept , and bowed toward the east , Above an hour since ; yet you not drest ; Nay , not so much as out of bed ; When all the birds have matins said , And sung their ...
... bed , and see The dew bespangling herb and tree : Each flow'r has wept , and bowed toward the east , Above an hour since ; yet you not drest ; Nay , not so much as out of bed ; When all the birds have matins said , And sung their ...
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... beds , Where sleep the mineral generations , drawn . Thence nitre , sulphur , and the fiery spume Of fat bitumen , steaming on the day , With various - tinctured trains of latent flame , Pollute the sky , and in yon baleful cloud , A ...
... beds , Where sleep the mineral generations , drawn . Thence nitre , sulphur , and the fiery spume Of fat bitumen , steaming on the day , With various - tinctured trains of latent flame , Pollute the sky , and in yon baleful cloud , A ...
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... under a metal lustre sus- pended by a chain ) sitting on one chair , and laying their feet on another . It is still safer , he says , to VOL . II . F bring two or three mattresses , or beds , into NO . XLIX . On Lightning and Thunder . 97.
... under a metal lustre sus- pended by a chain ) sitting on one chair , and laying their feet on another . It is still safer , he says , to VOL . II . F bring two or three mattresses , or beds , into NO . XLIX . On Lightning and Thunder . 97.
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... beds , into the middle of the room , and folding them double , to place the chairs upon them ; for , as they are not such good conductors as the walls , the lightning will not choose to pass through them : but the safest place of all is ...
... beds , into the middle of the room , and folding them double , to place the chairs upon them ; for , as they are not such good conductors as the walls , the lightning will not choose to pass through them : but the safest place of all is ...
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