The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, المجلد 4Francis S. Wiggins, 1834 |
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... dark lava cut and brought from mount Vesuvius ; the subterranean road through the grotto of Posilippo , and nearly every other road where it enters the capital , is paved with the same material — one , the road of Portici , for a ...
... dark lava cut and brought from mount Vesuvius ; the subterranean road through the grotto of Posilippo , and nearly every other road where it enters the capital , is paved with the same material — one , the road of Portici , for a ...
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... dark one , yet there are beautiful lights , as well as deep shades , in his pictures . His views of religion have most unjustly been blamed as gloomy . That he laboured , at times , under a greater fear of death than might have been ...
... dark one , yet there are beautiful lights , as well as deep shades , in his pictures . His views of religion have most unjustly been blamed as gloomy . That he laboured , at times , under a greater fear of death than might have been ...
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... dark blueish gray , mixed with small streaks of black ; white large heart - shaped spots , bor- dered with black , mark the head , wings and tail ; it is strictly a nocturnal bird , and is almost the only one which does not prey on ...
... dark blueish gray , mixed with small streaks of black ; white large heart - shaped spots , bor- dered with black , mark the head , wings and tail ; it is strictly a nocturnal bird , and is almost the only one which does not prey on ...
الصفحة 27
... the grotto , presented ; this , brilliantly illuminated by the sun's rays and seen through the vista of the dark cave , formed a striking contrast to the surrounding obscurity ; while the large Cavern of the Guacharo . 27.
... the grotto , presented ; this , brilliantly illuminated by the sun's rays and seen through the vista of the dark cave , formed a striking contrast to the surrounding obscurity ; while the large Cavern of the Guacharo . 27.
الصفحة 29
... at a distance during the day , and by the same operating cause , the mariner during the hours of darkness , observes the fiery beacon glimmering from afar . 1 The heat of the sun is also most potent in 3 * The Sun. 29.
... at a distance during the day , and by the same operating cause , the mariner during the hours of darkness , observes the fiery beacon glimmering from afar . 1 The heat of the sun is also most potent in 3 * The Sun. 29.
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AGAMI HERON animal appearance banks beauty belted kingfisher birds body Calabria called cataract cavern coast colour covered crater dark deep delightful distance earth earthquake feet flowers Flustra frequently GEORGE CROLY GRANDE CHARTREUSE ground GUACHARO habits heaven height hills hour houses hundred inches INDIAN IDOL inhabitants island king land leaves length light living manner ment mercury metal miles mind MONTHLY REPOSITORY moon motion MOUNT VESUVIUS mountain mouth Naples natives nature nearly nest never night o'er observed ocean ornaments Paradise Lost passed plain plants present puma rise river rock ROCK SAMPHIRE rocking stone says scene seen shore side Sierra Leone sometimes Soosoo species spring stone stream surface surrounded temple thing thou tide tide-wave Timbuctoo tion torrent travellers trees vegetable vessel waves whole wind wood young
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الصفحة 30 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
الصفحة 407 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
الصفحة 34 - They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows; "Friends," says he, and neighbours, "the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot...
الصفحة 333 - To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share and treads upon : the oak Shall send his roots abroad and pierce thy mould.
الصفحة 257 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
الصفحة 72 - Live while you live, the Epicure would say, And seize the pleasures of the present day. Live while you live, the sacred Preacher cries, And give to God each moment as it flies.
الصفحة 407 - To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; On the wilderness, wherein there is no man; To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; And to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth?
الصفحة 370 - No endless night, yet not eternal day; The saddest birds a season find to sing, The roughest storm a calm may soon allay: Thus, with succeeding turns, God tempereth all, That man may hope to rise, yet fear to fall.
الصفحة 333 - Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun ; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between ; The venerable woods, rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green ; and poured round all Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.
الصفحة 334 - The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.