The Young Man's Evening Book: Embracing Sketches and Anecdotes in Natural History, Incidents of Travel, Biographical Sketches, Poetical Selections, and Other Subjects Suited to Interest and Instruct the MindC.S. Francis & Company, 1855 - 324 من الصفحات |
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... covering to be taken off him , and he was discovered actually sitting cross- legged on the air ; but leaning his right arm on the end of the antelope skin , which communicated hori- zontally with the hollow bamboo , which again was ...
... covering to be taken off him , and he was discovered actually sitting cross- legged on the air ; but leaning his right arm on the end of the antelope skin , which communicated hori- zontally with the hollow bamboo , which again was ...
الصفحة 21
... covered with bees , none of which , however , offer to resent the aggression , or to enter the room . Having placed the straw upon the charcoal , he holds the dish close to the mouth of the hive , and blows the smoke strongly against ...
... covered with bees , none of which , however , offer to resent the aggression , or to enter the room . Having placed the straw upon the charcoal , he holds the dish close to the mouth of the hive , and blows the smoke strongly against ...
الصفحة 23
... covered with marine plants ; and in these water pastures , which are near enough to the surface to be readily seen by the naked eye in calm weather , a prodi- gious abundance of animals , mostly amphibious , feed , and amongst them ...
... covered with marine plants ; and in these water pastures , which are near enough to the surface to be readily seen by the naked eye in calm weather , a prodi- gious abundance of animals , mostly amphibious , feed , and amongst them ...
الصفحة 24
... covered with small scales . The jaws of the wide mouth are not provided with teeth , but the jaw - bones are very hard and strong , and being at the same time very rough , the animal is enabled to consume its vege- table food with ease ...
... covered with small scales . The jaws of the wide mouth are not provided with teeth , but the jaw - bones are very hard and strong , and being at the same time very rough , the animal is enabled to consume its vege- table food with ease ...
الصفحة 25
... covered with a membrane something like wet parchment . They are hatched in less than a month after they are laid ; and in about eight or ten days the young reptiles creep to the water . The wood - cut at the head of this article repre ...
... covered with a membrane something like wet parchment . They are hatched in less than a month after they are laid ; and in about eight or ten days the young reptiles creep to the water . The wood - cut at the head of this article repre ...
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الصفحة 50 - There's a dance of leaves in that aspen bower, There's a titter of winds in that beechen tree, There's a smile on the fruit and a smile on the flower, And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea.
الصفحة 104 - Beyond the flight of time, Beyond the reign of death, There surely is some blessed clime Where life is not a breath, Nor life's affections transient fire, Whose sparks fly upward and expire.
الصفحة 230 - A thousand miles from land are we, Tossing about on the roaring sea , From billow to bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast : The sails are scattered abroad, like weeds, The strong masts shake, like quivering reeds, The mighty cables, and iron chains, The hull, which all earthly strength disdains, They strain and they crack, and hearts like stone Their natural hard proud strength disown. Up and down ! up and down ! From...
الصفحة 294 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
الصفحة 50 - There are notes of joy from the hang-bird and wren, And the gossip of swallows through all the sky; The ground-squirrel gaily chirps by his den, And the wilding bee hums merrily by.
الصفحة 99 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
الصفحة 144 - Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap ; it will be dear to you.
الصفحة 230 - And amidst the flashing and feathery foam The Stormy Petrel finds a home : A home, if such a place may be For her who lives on the wide, wide sea, On the craggy ice, in the frozen air, And only seeketh her rocky lair To warm her young and to teach them spring At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing.
الصفحة 214 - Humboldt calculates that as thirty-three pounds of wheat and ninety-nine pounds of potatoes require the same space as that in which four thousand pounds of bananas...
الصفحة 142 - We walked out together, and followed the rocky margins of the Kentucky River, until we reached a piece of flat land thickly covered with black walnuts, oaks and hickories. As the general mast was a good one that year, Squirrels were seen gamboling on every tree around us. My companion, a stout, hale, and athletic man, dressed in a homespun hunting-shirt, bare-legged and moccasined, carried a long and heavy rifle...