The New Pictorial & Illustrated Family Magazine, Established for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge..., Volume 3R. Sears, 1846 |
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... produce . Oberhasli forms a bailliage , under the ju- risdiction of an officer chosen from among the inhabitants and appointed by the au- thorities of Berne ; the population amounts to about six thousand , and the valley is subdivided ...
... produce . Oberhasli forms a bailliage , under the ju- risdiction of an officer chosen from among the inhabitants and appointed by the au- thorities of Berne ; the population amounts to about six thousand , and the valley is subdivided ...
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... produce of the stock , it does not seem possible to increase it be- yond a certain point , and that at no great distance . sarily frequently impelled to emigrate , if not to other countries , at least to other dis- tricts , and if not ...
... produce of the stock , it does not seem possible to increase it be- yond a certain point , and that at no great distance . sarily frequently impelled to emigrate , if not to other countries , at least to other dis- tricts , and if not ...
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... produce of which he might possess without danger , and sip without sorrow : but all amounts to nothing . Some , as Cornaro , advise us to weigh our food , than which nothing can be more absurd ; for if this were desirable , surely the ...
... produce of which he might possess without danger , and sip without sorrow : but all amounts to nothing . Some , as Cornaro , advise us to weigh our food , than which nothing can be more absurd ; for if this were desirable , surely the ...
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... produces a very beneficial effect to the husbandman ; for the hard clods of the ploughed fields are loosened and broken to pieces by the swelling of the water within them when frozen . Hence the earth is crumbled , and prepared for ...
... produces a very beneficial effect to the husbandman ; for the hard clods of the ploughed fields are loosened and broken to pieces by the swelling of the water within them when frozen . Hence the earth is crumbled , and prepared for ...
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... produced the orange- trees at Beddington , in Surrey , of which Bishop Gibson , in his additions to Cam- den's " Britannia , " speaks of as having been there a hundred years previous to 1695. As these trees always produced fruit , they ...
... produced the orange- trees at Beddington , in Surrey , of which Bishop Gibson , in his additions to Cam- den's " Britannia , " speaks of as having been there a hundred years previous to 1695. As these trees always produced fruit , they ...
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Page 503 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Page 467 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Page 445 - But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
Page 467 - And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
Page 467 - I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Page 189 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 222 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets, in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 319 - ... of his feet are still to be seen, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were slaughtered, except the big bull, who presenting his forehead to the shafts, shook them off as they fell; but missing one at length, it wounded him in the side; whereon, springing round, he bounded over the Ohio, over the Wabash, the Illinois, and finally over the great lakes, where he is living at this day.
Page 380 - I came into the House one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean, and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar ; his hat was without a hatband ; his stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side ; his countenance swollen and reddish ; his...
Page 222 - HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.