The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art, Volume 2Canadian Institute., 1857 - Art |
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... increases according to a fixed ratio , forty shells being the standard number required to extend a fathoms ' length ... increasing one beaver skin for every shell less than the standard number . The Chinooks evince very little taste in ...
... increases according to a fixed ratio , forty shells being the standard number required to extend a fathoms ' length ... increasing one beaver skin for every shell less than the standard number . The Chinooks evince very little taste in ...
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... increased by learning that she had purchased the delicacy with one of his best blankets . During the season the Chinooks are gathering Camas and fishing , they live in lodges constructed by means of a few poles covered with mats made of ...
... increased by learning that she had purchased the delicacy with one of his best blankets . During the season the Chinooks are gathering Camas and fishing , they live in lodges constructed by means of a few poles covered with mats made of ...
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... increase and diffusion of knowledge among men . In 1838 , the nephew having died , the money was paid over by the English Court of Chancery to the Agent appointed by the Govern- ment of the United States ; and eight years afterwards ...
... increase and diffusion of knowledge among men . In 1838 , the nephew having died , the money was paid over by the English Court of Chancery to the Agent appointed by the Govern- ment of the United States ; and eight years afterwards ...
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... increase and diffusion of knowledge among men . ( 2 ) . The bequest is for the benefit of mankind . The Government of the United States is merely a trustee to carry out the design of the testator . ( 3 ) . The institution is not a ...
... increase and diffusion of knowledge among men . ( 2 ) . The bequest is for the benefit of mankind . The Government of the United States is merely a trustee to carry out the design of the testator . ( 3 ) . The institution is not a ...
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... increase and diffuse knowledge agreeably to the scheme above given ; and the other part to be appropriated to the formation of a library and a collection of objects of nature and of art . This resolution was , however , rescinded at the ...
... increase and diffuse knowledge agreeably to the scheme above given ; and the other part to be appropriated to the formation of a library and a collection of objects of nature and of art . This resolution was , however , rescinded at the ...
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Page 205 - So careful of the type?' but no, From scarped cliff and quarried stone She cries "A thousand types are gone. I care for nothing; all shall go. "Thou makest thine appeal to me: I bring to life, I bring to death; The spirit does but mean the breath; I know no more.
Page 41 - The property is bequeathed to the United States of America, "to found at Washington, under the name of the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.
Page 106 - Oh, from out the sounding cells, What a gush of euphony voluminously wells! How it swells! How it dwells On the Future!
Page 106 - How it swells! How it dwells On the Future ! how it tells Of the rapture that impels To the swinging and the ringing Of the bells, bells, bells— Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells— To the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!
Page 254 - This day, much against my will, I did - in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us!" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw.
Page 105 - gone before," with Hope, that flew beside, Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride— For her, the fair and debonair, that now so lowly lies, The life upon her yellow hair but not within her eyes— The life still there, upon her hair— the death upon her eyes.
Page 105 - Avaunt! to-night my heart is light. No dirge will I upraise, "But waft the angel on her flight with a Paean of old days ! "Let no bell toll! — lest her sweet soul, amid its hallowed mirth, "Should catch the note, as it doth float up from the damned Earth. "To friends above, from...
Page 205 - Are God and Nature then at strife, That Nature lends such evil dreams? So careful of the type she seems, So careless of the single life...
Page 253 - Tobacco battered, and the pipes shattered, about their ears that idly idolize so base and barbarous a weed, or at leastwise overlove so loathsome a vanity, by a volley of holy shot thundered from Mount Helicon."§...
Page 205 - And he, shall he, Man, her last work, who seem'd so fair, Such splendid purpose in his eyes, Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies, Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer, Who trusted God was love indeed, And love Creation's final law — Tho...