The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Том 3Francis S. Wiggins, 1833 |
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... body ; and while his flock was feeding around him , he used to busy himself in making models of mills , spinning wheels , & c . during the day , and in 66 66 studying the stars at night , like his Pursuit of Knowledge . 7 Nassau Hall ...
... body ; and while his flock was feeding around him , he used to busy himself in making models of mills , spinning wheels , & c . during the day , and in 66 66 studying the stars at night , like his Pursuit of Knowledge . 7 Nassau Hall ...
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... bodies : " I used to stretch , " says he , " a thread with small beads on it , at arms - length , between my eye and the stars ; sliding the beads upon it till they hid such and such stars from my eye , in order to take their apparent ...
... bodies : " I used to stretch , " says he , " a thread with small beads on it , at arms - length , between my eye and the stars ; sliding the beads upon it till they hid such and such stars from my eye , in order to take their apparent ...
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... bodies ; that is a kind of planets which move in very oblique elliptical orbits every way with the greatest force persevering in their motions even against the course of the planets ; and their tails are very thin and slender vapors ...
... bodies ; that is a kind of planets which move in very oblique elliptical orbits every way with the greatest force persevering in their motions even against the course of the planets ; and their tails are very thin and slender vapors ...
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... bodies , although it was the opinion of Sir Isaac Newton that they were planetary bodies , most likely inhabited . Yet others have differed from him and have supposed that they were formed From their huge vap'ry train , perhaps to shake ...
... bodies , although it was the opinion of Sir Isaac Newton that they were planetary bodies , most likely inhabited . Yet others have differed from him and have supposed that they were formed From their huge vap'ry train , perhaps to shake ...
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... bodies testified their respect for his talents , and his sovereign conferred on him the honor of knighthood . Sir William died on the 23d of August , 1822 , leav , ing behind him an unblemished reputation in priva life . Sir William ...
... bodies testified their respect for his talents , and his sovereign conferred on him the honor of knighthood . Sir William died on the 23d of August , 1822 , leav , ing behind him an unblemished reputation in priva life . Sir William ...
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Стр. 29 - Thou shalt ° not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Стр. 348 - And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
Стр. 180 - Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green, So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Стр. 226 - And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up, and thrust Him out of the city, and led Him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast Him down headlong.
Стр. 210 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of swedt harmony.
Стр. 140 - It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves ; springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Стр. 144 - If Thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Стр. 57 - Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow ? or will he harrow the valleys after thee...
Стр. 210 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Стр. 403 - It is a happy world after all. The air, the earth, the water, teem with delighted existence. In a spring noon, or a summer evening, on whichever side I turn my eyes, myriads of happy beings crowd upon my view. " The insect youth are on the wing.