The New Pictorial & Illustrated Family Magazine, Established for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge..., Volumen 3R. Sears, 1846 |
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... feet : formerly it was some feet higher , but a portion of the rock was detached some years ago , by the at- trition of the water , and its fall has de- tracted from the perpendicular descent of the stream . Toccoa forms but one of the ...
... feet : formerly it was some feet higher , but a portion of the rock was detached some years ago , by the at- trition of the water , and its fall has de- tracted from the perpendicular descent of the stream . Toccoa forms but one of the ...
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... feet below the surface of the rock . The modern town of Portici is built over the buried city ; and while exploring the theatre , we could hear carriages rumbling along the street over our heads . quisitely rounded . Even the linen ...
... feet below the surface of the rock . The modern town of Portici is built over the buried city ; and while exploring the theatre , we could hear carriages rumbling along the street over our heads . quisitely rounded . Even the linen ...
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... feet in width at base , and seldom rising as high as eighteen inches above the surface of the soil . The en- trance is placed either at the top or on the side , and the whole mound is beaten down externally , especially at the summit ...
... feet in width at base , and seldom rising as high as eighteen inches above the surface of the soil . The en- trance is placed either at the top or on the side , and the whole mound is beaten down externally , especially at the summit ...
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... feet in length . It frequents , in troops , the bays and inlets of our coast , and especially the mouths of rivers , not unfrequently advancing to a con- siderable distance up their stream . In such places it is often taken in nets by ...
... feet in length . It frequents , in troops , the bays and inlets of our coast , and especially the mouths of rivers , not unfrequently advancing to a con- siderable distance up their stream . In such places it is often taken in nets by ...
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... feet by two and a quarter feet , is in the Cabinet of Natural History in the Garden of Plants at Paris . One account of the valley of Oberhasli , which we have consulted , states that the population has doubled in the last hundred years ...
... feet by two and a quarter feet , is in the Cabinet of Natural History in the Garden of Plants at Paris . One account of the valley of Oberhasli , which we have consulted , states that the population has doubled in the last hundred years ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 503 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Página 467 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Página 445 - But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?
Página 467 - And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
Página 467 - I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
Página 189 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Página 222 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets, in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 319 - ... of his feet are still to be seen, and hurled his bolts among them till the whole were slaughtered, except the big bull, who presenting his forehead to the shafts, shook them off as they fell; but missing one at length, it wounded him in the side; whereon, springing round, he bounded over the Ohio, over the Wabash, the Illinois, and finally over the great lakes, where he is living at this day.
Página 380 - I came into the House one morning, well clad, and perceived a gentleman speaking whom I knew not, very ordinarily apparelled ; for it was a plain cloth suit which seemed to have been made by an ill country tailor ; his linen was plain, and not very clean, and I remember a speck or two of blood upon his little band, which was not much larger than his collar ; his hat was without a hatband ; his stature was of a good size ; his sword stuck close to his side ; his countenance swollen and reddish ; his...
Página 222 - HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.