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Strona 34
... tion , and seen by every animated part of it , to be adored as the fountain of light , heat , and life . The power of healing diseases being chiefly given by the ancients to medicinal plants and vegetable pro- ductions , it was natural ...
... tion , and seen by every animated part of it , to be adored as the fountain of light , heat , and life . The power of healing diseases being chiefly given by the ancients to medicinal plants and vegetable pro- ductions , it was natural ...
Strona 39
... tion , and the suspected murderer was once more set at liberty . The public feeling , however , was so strong against him , that he emigrated to this coun- try , America , where he soon after died . This event occasioned the abolition ...
... tion , and the suspected murderer was once more set at liberty . The public feeling , however , was so strong against him , that he emigrated to this coun- try , America , where he soon after died . This event occasioned the abolition ...
Strona 40
... tion , which , Porto Bello like , became a popular sub - nier , is the French word for that trade ; the best ject for signs ; and the port or harbor of Boulogne , leather used for shoes coming originally from Cor- called Boulogne Mouth ...
... tion , which , Porto Bello like , became a popular sub - nier , is the French word for that trade ; the best ject for signs ; and the port or harbor of Boulogne , leather used for shoes coming originally from Cor- called Boulogne Mouth ...
Strona 48
... tion . The arches of Titus and Constantine make at this time a great figure among the ruins of old Rome . ARCHERY . The art or exercise of shooting with a bow and arrow . In most nations the bow was anciently the principal implement of ...
... tion . The arches of Titus and Constantine make at this time a great figure among the ruins of old Rome . ARCHERY . The art or exercise of shooting with a bow and arrow . In most nations the bow was anciently the principal implement of ...
Strona 51
... tion from the rains and dews . In Polynesia , and the Asiatic islands , they are very neatly built of canes , lined with mats , and covered with leaves . The same style of building is found in Hindoostan and Farther India , and to a ...
... tion from the rains and dews . In Polynesia , and the Asiatic islands , they are very neatly built of canes , lined with mats , and covered with leaves . The same style of building is found in Hindoostan and Farther India , and to a ...
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Strona 78 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Strona 232 - And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Strona 89 - And they sat down to eat bread ; and they lifted up their eyes, and looked, and behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery, and balm, and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Strona 82 - And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
Strona 270 - And he answered and said unto them, "Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Strona 301 - The extraordinary noise caused by the horses' hoofs, makes the fish issue from the mud, and excites them to combat. These yellowish and livid eels, resembling large aquatic serpents, swim on the surface of the water, and crowd under the bellies of the horses and mules. A contest between animals of so different an organization, furnishes a very striking spectacle.
Strona 181 - The duties of children to their parents arise from a principle of natural justice and retribution. For to those who gave us existence we naturally owe subjection and obedience during our minority, and honour and reverence ever after: they who protected the weakness of our infancy are entitled to our protection in the infirmity of their age; they who by sustenance and education have enabled their offspring to prosper, ought in return to be supported by that offspring, in case they stand in need of...
Strona 117 - Reasons, to which if they consent not, the Difference to be compounded at the General Meeting, which is to be of the chief Persons of each Company, at the end of the work.
Strona 269 - How many merchants and carriers, besides, must have been employed in transporting the materials from some of those workmen to others who often live in a very distant part of the country!
Strona 264 - Discretion has large and extended views, and like a well-formed eye, commands a whole horizon. Cunning is a kind of shortsightedness, that discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand, but is not able to discern things at a distance.