The Winter Evening BookC.S. Francis, 1837 - Всего страниц: 325 |
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... equal to that of Guatimala , and superior to every kind of West - India indigo . Indigo from America was for a long period very superior to that obtained from the East ; and although this dyeing ingredient was recognised in commerce as ...
... equal to that of Guatimala , and superior to every kind of West - India indigo . Indigo from America was for a long period very superior to that obtained from the East ; and although this dyeing ingredient was recognised in commerce as ...
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... , lying upon his table , and , still more extraordinary , written in his own hand . This information he communicated to his master when he gave up his task , who , being equal- G ly astonished with him , resolved to try him the 73.
... , lying upon his table , and , still more extraordinary , written in his own hand . This information he communicated to his master when he gave up his task , who , being equal- G ly astonished with him , resolved to try him the 73.
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... equal to that of five men , it will perform as much as six hundred men can ; while its whole expense is only equal to about , half the number of horses for which it is substituted . The only purpose to which steam - engines were first ...
... equal to that of five men , it will perform as much as six hundred men can ; while its whole expense is only equal to about , half the number of horses for which it is substituted . The only purpose to which steam - engines were first ...
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... equal to the demands of your situa- tion , sire ; but ' t is all I have : if I had more I would give it to you . " Augustus could not resist this ; he burst into laughter , and made the poet a handsome present . Pickpockets . - The old ...
... equal to the demands of your situa- tion , sire ; but ' t is all I have : if I had more I would give it to you . " Augustus could not resist this ; he burst into laughter , and made the poet a handsome present . Pickpockets . - The old ...
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... moment with the weightier body ? The resistance of the air . The bulks are equal , and of course the resistance offered to both is alike , but the one having a far greater number of atoms , and hence a far greater power of attraction 86.
... moment with the weightier body ? The resistance of the air . The bulks are equal , and of course the resistance offered to both is alike , but the one having a far greater number of atoms , and hence a far greater power of attraction 86.
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Стр. 330 - A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Стр. 156 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Стр. 90 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea -shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Стр. 267 - That from the fountains of Sonora glide Into the calm Pacific: have ye fanned A nobler or a lovelier scene than this? Man hath no part in all this glorious work: The hand that built the firmament hath heaved And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopes With herbage, planted them with island groves, And hedged them round with forests.
Стр. 240 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Стр. 268 - With whom he came across the eastern deep, Fills the savannas with his murmurings, And hides his sweets, as in the golden age, Within the hollow oak. I listen long To his domestic hum, and think I hear The sound of that advancing multitude Which soon shall fill these deserts.
Стр. 276 - WEEP with me, all you that read This little story; And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As Heaven and Nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature.
Стр. 213 - WE had in this village, more than twenty years ago, an idiot boy, — whom I well remember, — who, from a child, showed a strong propensity to bees ; they were his food, his amusement, his sole object. And as people of this cast have seldom more than one point in view, so this lad exerted all his few faculties on this one pursuit. In the winter he dozed away his time, within his father's house, by the fireside, in a kind of torpid state...
Стр. 250 - I killed one man to save a hundred thousand; a villain to save innocents; a savage wildbeast to give repose to my country. I was a Republican before the Revolution; I never wanted energy.
Стр. 330 - They shall run like mighty men ; they shall climb the wall like men of war; and they shall march every one on his ways, and they shall not break their ranks, neither shall one thrust another.