Nature and Human Nature, المجلد 1Stringer and Townsend, 1855 - 336 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 312 - I KNEW, by the smoke that so gracefully curled Above the green elms, that a cottage was near, And I said, " If there's peace to be found in the world, A heart that was humble might hope for it here...
الصفحة 77 - Upon my return home I visited the kennel, and was delighted with the management of it ; there was a place for everything, and everything was in its place.
الصفحة 95 - The charge, consisting of powder and duck-shot, waa received in the left side of the youth, he being at a distance of not more than one yard from the muzzle of the gun. The contents entered posteriorly, and in an oblique direction, forward and inward, literally blowing off integuments and muscles of the size of a man's hand, fracturing and carrying away the anterior half of the sixth rib, fracturing the fifth, lacerating the lower portion of the left lobe of the lungs, the diaphragm, and perforating...
الصفحة 220 - According to one legend Thoth once wrote a wonderful book, full of wisdom and science, containing in it everything relating to the fowls of the air, the fishes of the sea, and the fourfooted beasts of the mountains.
الصفحة 15 - Washington, after being appointed commander of the army of the revolutionary war, came to Massachusetts to organize it, and make preparations for the defence of the country, he found a great want of ammunition and other means necessary to meet the powerful foe he had to contend with, and great difficulty to obtain them. If attacked in such condition, the cause at once might be hopeless. On one occasion at that anxious period a consultation of the officers and others was had, when it seemed no way...
الصفحة 154 - Virginia, and that one of his descendants lately deceased, was one of the most eloquent as well as one of the most distinguished men in the United States.
الصفحة 109 - America, formed by pounding the choice parts of the meat very small, dried over a slow fire or in the frost, and put into bags made of the skin of the slain animal, into which a portion of melted fat is then poured. The whole being then strongly pressed and sewed up, constitutes the best and most portable food for the " voyageurs," and one which, with proper care, will keep a long time.
الصفحة 54 - O, we need it! We need all the counterweights we can muster to balance the sad relations of life.
الصفحة 297 - In the lumber regions of Maine, it is customary for men of different logging camps to appoint days for helping each other in rolling the logs to the river, after they are felled and trimmed — this rolling being about the hardest work incident to the business. Thus the men of three or four camps will unite, say on Monday, to roll for the camp No. 1 — on Tuesday for camp No. 2 — on Wednesday for camp No. 3 — and' so on through the whole number of camps within convenient distance of each other.
الصفحة 330 - ... of those who are above it The exception at last becomes the rule, concession follows concession, and no stop can be made short of universal suffrage.