The Saturday Magazine, Volume 16J. W. Parker, 1840 - Periodicals |
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... tion beget skill , and thereby relieve the possessor from earnest and assiduous toil . From his earliest years , therefore , till he was about nineteen years of age , his time was chiefly taken up in copying such pictures and prints as ...
... tion beget skill , and thereby relieve the possessor from earnest and assiduous toil . From his earliest years , therefore , till he was about nineteen years of age , his time was chiefly taken up in copying such pictures and prints as ...
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... tion , 1832. Towns . Towns . lages . 38,000 4 ... 4. 271 ... 28.10 92,231 5 . ... ... ... Houses 5,700 61 158 ... 18,250 37.90 130,231 9 101 429 23,950 ... ... ... ... ... According to the latest census , the entire population amounts ...
... tion , 1832. Towns . Towns . lages . 38,000 4 ... 4. 271 ... 28.10 92,231 5 . ... ... ... Houses 5,700 61 158 ... 18,250 37.90 130,231 9 101 429 23,950 ... ... ... ... ... According to the latest census , the entire population amounts ...
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... tion . The examination of a blade of grass , or even of a spider's web , laden with this frozen dew , will prove how inimitably beautiful , and passing human art to imitate , are the least of the works of God . The beautiful hoar ...
... tion . The examination of a blade of grass , or even of a spider's web , laden with this frozen dew , will prove how inimitably beautiful , and passing human art to imitate , are the least of the works of God . The beautiful hoar ...
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... tion was transported on the Elbe , from Dresden to Acken , and from thence on the Achse to the place of its destination . In the year 1564 , there was a float- master in Saxony , who was obliged to give security to the amount of four ...
... tion was transported on the Elbe , from Dresden to Acken , and from thence on the Achse to the place of its destination . In the year 1564 , there was a float- master in Saxony , who was obliged to give security to the amount of four ...
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... tion may appear to assign too exalted a station to the latter science . The distances treated of in astro- nomy are so immense , and the time required for the completion of some of the celestial cycles so vast , that they elude the ...
... tion may appear to assign too exalted a station to the latter science . The distances treated of in astro- nomy are so immense , and the time required for the completion of some of the celestial cycles so vast , that they elude the ...
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Page 44 - PANSIES, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises ; Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory ; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story : There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine.
Page 29 - With heaping coals of fire upon his head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And loose from dross the silver runs below.
Page 120 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 11 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Page 20 - And if neglect had lavished on the ground Fragment of bread, she would collect the same ; For well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found.
Page 9 - geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy...
Page 5 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Page 157 - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 169 - As if here were those cooler shades of love. Can such delights be in the street " And open fields and we not see't ? Come, we'll abroad; and let's obey The proclamation made for May...
Page 2 - Rules to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-days begin. EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.