Chambers's papers for the people, Del 19–24 |
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Side 5
... whole of Siberia , 260,600 800,000 33 * The climate of a country extending between 45 ° 30 ′ , and 77 ° 40 ′ north latitude , and 60 ° and 190 ° east longitude , cannot of course be uniform ; but excessive cold is predominant . The ...
... whole of Siberia , 260,600 800,000 33 * The climate of a country extending between 45 ° 30 ′ , and 77 ° 40 ′ north latitude , and 60 ° and 190 ° east longitude , cannot of course be uniform ; but excessive cold is predominant . The ...
Side 16
... whole of the manufacturing industry of the country ; for here , as in other countries in a similar stage of development , domestic manufacture is to a considerable extent practised in the houses of the villagers . No isolated farmsteads ...
... whole of the manufacturing industry of the country ; for here , as in other countries in a similar stage of development , domestic manufacture is to a considerable extent practised in the houses of the villagers . No isolated farmsteads ...
Side 17
... whole ameublement ; while the pictures of saints stuck on the walls , and the shining brass samawar * placed on a shelf , form the sole ornaments . The houses of the wealthier among the Russo - Siberian merchants some- times consist of ...
... whole ameublement ; while the pictures of saints stuck on the walls , and the shining brass samawar * placed on a shelf , form the sole ornaments . The houses of the wealthier among the Russo - Siberian merchants some- times consist of ...
Side 20
... whole day having been spent in this manner , towards evening ensues the important ceremony of the loosening of the tresses , which takes place in the presence of the bridegroom , and by which the cessation of the bride's state of ...
... whole day having been spent in this manner , towards evening ensues the important ceremony of the loosening of the tresses , which takes place in the presence of the bridegroom , and by which the cessation of the bride's state of ...
Side 22
... whole presenting a picture of simple - hearted enjoyment most pleasing to behold . Another of these winterly amusements are the so - called Russian mountains , which it is customary to imitate at the fairs and other holiday makings in ...
... whole presenting a picture of simple - hearted enjoyment most pleasing to behold . Another of these winterly amusements are the so - called Russian mountains , which it is customary to imitate at the fairs and other holiday makings in ...
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Populære passager
Side 11 - And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in unto this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs or of vines or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink.
Side 5 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Side 27 - Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, thou: Our wills are ours, we know not how; Our wills are ours, to make them thine.
Side 30 - OH ! blame not the bard, if he fly to the bowers Where Pleasure lies, carelessly smiling at Fame, He was born for much more, and in happier hours His soul might have burned with a holier flame...
Side 10 - And the people thirsted there for water; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?
Side 27 - For, behold, the Lord cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth. And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as was before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
Side 10 - Saturn, the spots in the sun, and its turning on its own axis, the inequalities and selenography of the moon, the several phases of Venus and Mercury, the improvement of telescopes, and grinding of glasses for that purpose, the weight of air, the possibility, or impossibility of vacuities, and nature's abhorrence thereof, the Torricellian experiment in quicksilver, the descent of heavy bodies, and the degrees of acceleration therein ; and divers other things of like nature.
Side 10 - ... rends its kindred throne! You have said, my lords, you have willed — the Church and the King have willed — that the Queen should be deprived of its solemn service! She has, instead of that solemnity, the heartfelt prayers of the people. She wants no prayers of mine. But I do here pour forth my humble supplications at the throne of mercy, that that mercy may be poured down upon the people, in a larger measure than the merits of its rulers may deserve, and that your hearts may be turned to...
Side 3 - ... jolting a carriage in the most intolerable manner. These are not merely opinions, but facts ; for I actually passed three carts broken down in these eighteen miles of execrable memory.
Side 9 - I had the opportunity of being acquainted with divers worthy persons, inquisitive into natural philosophy, and other parts of human learning ; and particularly of what hath been called the New Philosophy, or Experimental Philosophy.