The Family Magazine, Or, General Abstract of Useful Knowledge, Volume 2Redfield & Lindsay, 1835 |
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... length subsided , he went out of it , and , as an expression of his gratitude , built an altar and offered a sacrifice of beasts and fowls to his merciful Preserver ; whereupon God made a covenant with him that there should not be ...
... length subsided , he went out of it , and , as an expression of his gratitude , built an altar and offered a sacrifice of beasts and fowls to his merciful Preserver ; whereupon God made a covenant with him that there should not be ...
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... length transformed into poplars weeping amber instead of tears . NATURAL HISTORY . THE ELEPHANT . " The human race excepted , the Elephant is the most respectable of animals . In size he surpasses all other terrestrial creatures , and ...
... length transformed into poplars weeping amber instead of tears . NATURAL HISTORY . THE ELEPHANT . " The human race excepted , the Elephant is the most respectable of animals . In size he surpasses all other terrestrial creatures , and ...
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... length ; at that age , the Elephant is larger than an ox , and the tusks continue to increase till he is advanced in years . " In a wild state , the Elephant is neither bloody nor ferocious ; his manners are social ; he seldom wanders ...
... length ; at that age , the Elephant is larger than an ox , and the tusks continue to increase till he is advanced in years . " In a wild state , the Elephant is neither bloody nor ferocious ; his manners are social ; he seldom wanders ...
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... length traced our history down to the period when we can no longer view mankind as one great community , but when we must consider each nation by itself . And in thus tracing history from the beginning , we have in our progress ...
... length traced our history down to the period when we can no longer view mankind as one great community , but when we must consider each nation by itself . And in thus tracing history from the beginning , we have in our progress ...
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... length is eight or ten feet , but the breadth inconsiderable ; and the edges have a lacing attached to them , which serves to secure the lading . When used by the trader for his personal conveyance , it assumes a more finished character ...
... length is eight or ten feet , but the breadth inconsiderable ; and the edges have a lacing attached to them , which serves to secure the lading . When used by the trader for his personal conveyance , it assumes a more finished character ...
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Page 215 - Reading maketh. a full man: conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 239 - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, That lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, A beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in their graves ; The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, With the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, But the cold November rain Calls not, from out the gloomy earth, The lovely ones again.
Page 97 - And he said, thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel : for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Page 89 - And yet indeed she is my sister ; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife.
Page 97 - But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
Page 9 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth ; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Page 239 - Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone from upland, glade, and glen. And now when comes the calm mild day — as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home ; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them...
Page 64 - STRANGER, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen Enough of all its sorrows, crimes, and cares, To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the haunts of Nature.
Page 26 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Page 215 - ... the head ; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers