Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge..., Volume 4Redfield and Lindsay, 1837 |
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... animal kingdom remarkable for the energy of its move- ments ; for they are seen to ascend channels at Ket- tle's Falls , into which a stone as large as a man's head , when dropped , is born downwards with the swift- ness of an arrow ...
... animal kingdom remarkable for the energy of its move- ments ; for they are seen to ascend channels at Ket- tle's Falls , into which a stone as large as a man's head , when dropped , is born downwards with the swift- ness of an arrow ...
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... animal suck one of the eggs , she abandons them altogether . Several females some- times associate , deposite their ... animals , especially the lynxes , together with the larger birds of prey , the hawks , the eagles , and the owls ...
... animal suck one of the eggs , she abandons them altogether . Several females some- times associate , deposite their ... animals , especially the lynxes , together with the larger birds of prey , the hawks , the eagles , and the owls ...
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... animal went which it opens slantingly and rather abruptly . It is off with great rapidity , and as it approached the tur- continued on its outside to some distance , so as grad - key , I saw , with great surprise , that the latter paid ...
... animal went which it opens slantingly and rather abruptly . It is off with great rapidity , and as it approached the tur- continued on its outside to some distance , so as grad - key , I saw , with great surprise , that the latter paid ...
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... animal strength , as a mechanical agent , which may serve to indicate the comparative product of labour from that and other sources , and enable us to discover their rela- tive importance for any given purpose . The usual method of ...
... animal strength , as a mechanical agent , which may serve to indicate the comparative product of labour from that and other sources , and enable us to discover their rela- tive importance for any given purpose . The usual method of ...
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... animals will travel , with a load of from one hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds , about fifteen miles a day over the roughest mountains . There is a smaller animal of a similar nature , called the pacos , which is also now used by ...
... animals will travel , with a load of from one hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds , about fifteen miles a day over the roughest mountains . There is a smaller animal of a similar nature , called the pacos , which is also now used by ...
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Page 171 - But you who are wise must know, that different nations have different conceptions of things ; and you will therefore not take it amiss, if our ideas of this kind of education happen not to be the same with yours.
Page 313 - Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 300 - Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit ; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Page 223 - In thus admitting their separation from the crown of these kingdoms, I have sacrificed every consideration of my own to the wishes and opinion of my people. I make it my humble and earnest prayer to Almighty God that Great Britain may not feel the evils which might result from so great a dismemberment of the empire...
Page 88 - ... two great stones were brought before Powhatan: then as many as could layd hands on him, dragged him to them, and thereon laid his head, and being ready with their clubs, to beate out his braines, Pocahontas the Kings dearest daughter, when no intreaty could prevaile, got his head in her armes, and laid her owne upon his to save him from death...
Page 171 - ... several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces; they were instructed in all your sciences, but when they came back to us, they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, unable to bear either cold or hunger, knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy, spoke our language imperfectly, were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors, nor counsellors; they were totally good for nothing.
Page 50 - She told me that there was plenty of venison and jerked buffalo meat, and that on removing the ashes I should find a cake. But my watch had struck her fancy, and her curiosity had to be gratified by an immediate sight of it.
Page 223 - I make it my humble and earnest prayer to Almighty God, that Great Britain may not feel the evils which might result from so great a dismemberment of the empire; and that America may be free from...
Page 443 - ... the west, stretching away to the north and the south, it commands a view of the Blue Ridge for a hundred and fifty miles, and brings under the eye one of the boldest and most beautiful horizons in the world; while, on the east, it presents an extent of prospect bounded only by the spherical form of the earth, in which...
Page 246 - Shoals), flanked by numerous gunboats, four frigates, and a battery of guns and mortars on an Island in their Van ; but nothing could withstand the Squadron your Lordship did me the honour to place under my command.