The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Bind 4Francis S. Wiggins, 1834 |
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Side 4
... close from the extremity of the city , projects the gentle promontory of Posilippo , entirely covered with beautiful little villages , country seats , towers , gardens , and groves . And at the back - ground of nearly the whole of this ...
... close from the extremity of the city , projects the gentle promontory of Posilippo , entirely covered with beautiful little villages , country seats , towers , gardens , and groves . And at the back - ground of nearly the whole of this ...
Side 19
... close to and touching each other on a table ; upon these other pieces were placed at right angles . In this state the whole was moistened with the water of the Nile , and while wet was subjected to pressure , being afterwards exposed to ...
... close to and touching each other on a table ; upon these other pieces were placed at right angles . In this state the whole was moistened with the water of the Nile , and while wet was subjected to pressure , being afterwards exposed to ...
Side 23
... close of the Rambler , he lost his wife , who had been his faithful and affectionate partner in all his difficulties and distresses , and whose death he deeply deplored . His Dictionary , the labour of many years , was now brought out ...
... close of the Rambler , he lost his wife , who had been his faithful and affectionate partner in all his difficulties and distresses , and whose death he deeply deplored . His Dictionary , the labour of many years , was now brought out ...
Side 49
... close it in , we cannot hear it CABINET OF NATURE . ICEBERGS . These wild , fantastic islands of the northern seas , which often come floating into the broad Atlantic , car- rying in their atmosphere the chill of the arctic winter , are ...
... close it in , we cannot hear it CABINET OF NATURE . ICEBERGS . These wild , fantastic islands of the northern seas , which often come floating into the broad Atlantic , car- rying in their atmosphere the chill of the arctic winter , are ...
Side 78
... close woods , while numerous evergreens , and other plants , serve to adorn the various chasms , rendering them valuable depositories of the vegetable kingdom . Few , in- deed are the evergreens of Europe which may not be found here ...
... close woods , while numerous evergreens , and other plants , serve to adorn the various chasms , rendering them valuable depositories of the vegetable kingdom . Few , in- deed are the evergreens of Europe which may not be found here ...
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Side 30 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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?
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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.