The Saturday Magazine, Volumes 16-17John William Parker, 1840 |
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... half - petrified appearance of the cattle , which are seen creeping to the corner which seems best adapted to shelter them from the keen air , and waiting in mournful silence for their customary supply of fodder . Many animals remain in ...
... half - petrified appearance of the cattle , which are seen creeping to the corner which seems best adapted to shelter them from the keen air , and waiting in mournful silence for their customary supply of fodder . Many animals remain in ...
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... half century , in the hands of Smith , Cuvier , and a host of other scientific men , become a science pe- culiary fertile in novelties , not only deeply interesting to the geologist , but strikingly attractive to all who look with ...
... half century , in the hands of Smith , Cuvier , and a host of other scientific men , become a science pe- culiary fertile in novelties , not only deeply interesting to the geologist , but strikingly attractive to all who look with ...
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... half the present population of London . We are told by the old historian , Diodorus Siculus , that this city was fif- teen miles long , nine broad , and forty - eight in circum- ference . It was surrounded by large walls 100 feet high ...
... half the present population of London . We are told by the old historian , Diodorus Siculus , that this city was fif- teen miles long , nine broad , and forty - eight in circum- ference . It was surrounded by large walls 100 feet high ...
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... half - putrid , half- frozen flesh as a dainty . The Samoiedes take their meat raw , and drink the fresh blood of the rein - deer . On the contrary , the greater part of the people of the torrid zone find it more conducive to health to ...
... half - putrid , half- frozen flesh as a dainty . The Samoiedes take their meat raw , and drink the fresh blood of the rein - deer . On the contrary , the greater part of the people of the torrid zone find it more conducive to health to ...
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... half a million francs . The value of the jewellery presented is very large . Friends visit each other on the morning of the day , and interchange presents . No person pays a visit empty - handed : each one gives according to his or her ...
... half a million francs . The value of the jewellery presented is very large . Friends visit each other on the morning of the day , and interchange presents . No person pays a visit empty - handed : each one gives according to his or her ...
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Page 52 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 132 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 6 - I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphim : each one had six wings ; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said: — " Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts : the whole earth is full of His glory.
Page 119 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
Page 122 - 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 59 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Page 172 - Here the gray smooth trunks Of ash, or lime, or beech, distinctly shine, Within the twilight of their distant shades ; There, lost behind a rising ground, the wood Seems sunk, and shorten'd to its topmost boughs. No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar...
Page 46 - 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 11 - 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 59 - And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.