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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... tion of this absurd notion , founded as it is upon a total misapprehension of what the object of the Scriptures is , which are intended to teach men morality and religion only , not mathematics or as- tronomy , and which would not have ...
... tion of this absurd notion , founded as it is upon a total misapprehension of what the object of the Scriptures is , which are intended to teach men morality and religion only , not mathematics or as- tronomy , and which would not have ...
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... tion the utmost prudence and firmness are necessary to check their ferocious propensities , and confine them within proper bounds . They are generally employed on the east side of the mountains , but we had a few of them on the Columbia ...
... tion the utmost prudence and firmness are necessary to check their ferocious propensities , and confine them within proper bounds . They are generally employed on the east side of the mountains , but we had a few of them on the Columbia ...
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... tion . At the end of a couple of days I interceded and had him liberated . He appeared most grate- ful , acknowledged that he deserved what he got , expressed his surprise that I did not kill him , and declared if he ever heard a man ...
... tion . At the end of a couple of days I interceded and had him liberated . He appeared most grate- ful , acknowledged that he deserved what he got , expressed his surprise that I did not kill him , and declared if he ever heard a man ...
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... tion to light the streets of Paris with gas from wood and coal . Adopting the hint from this gentleman , a Mr. Winsor , a foreigner , came to London , in 1803 , and publicly exhibited gas illumination , and explained its nature , and ...
... tion to light the streets of Paris with gas from wood and coal . Adopting the hint from this gentleman , a Mr. Winsor , a foreigner , came to London , in 1803 , and publicly exhibited gas illumination , and explained its nature , and ...
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... tion of the cork which is consumed in Europe . The cork is the bark which the tree pushes outwards , as is common to all trees ; but here the outer bark is of larger quantity , and is more speedily renewed . When removed , there is a ...
... tion of the cork which is consumed in Europe . The cork is the bark which the tree pushes outwards , as is common to all trees ; but here the outer bark is of larger quantity , and is more speedily renewed . When removed , there is a ...
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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...