The Saturday Magazine, Volume 16J. W. Parker, 1840 - Periodicals |
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... pieces of the heavy clods of the field , by the expansion of the frozen moisture within them . At the time when the frost is severe enough to pro- duce these effects , how beautiful , how elegantly diver- sified , are the forms it ...
... pieces of the heavy clods of the field , by the expansion of the frozen moisture within them . At the time when the frost is severe enough to pro- duce these effects , how beautiful , how elegantly diver- sified , are the forms it ...
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... piece of wood should be floated separately down the stream ; for they may be fastened together , and steered down the middle of the river , in the form of a long and broad raft , Beckmann says : - FLOATING TIMBER IN LOMBARDY . PROBABLY ...
... piece of wood should be floated separately down the stream ; for they may be fastened together , and steered down the middle of the river , in the form of a long and broad raft , Beckmann says : - FLOATING TIMBER IN LOMBARDY . PROBABLY ...
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... pieces of timber , which have been brought down from forests near the banks , and precipitated into the stream . When these timbers , whose number receives constant accessions in the journey , reach a particular spot , they are all ...
... pieces of timber , which have been brought down from forests near the banks , and precipitated into the stream . When these timbers , whose number receives constant accessions in the journey , reach a particular spot , they are all ...
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... pieces of gypsum with inscriptions . Among other curiosities , an immense block of stone has been dug from one of these mounds , on which are sculptured the figures of men and animals . The differing opinions of travellers with respect ...
... pieces of gypsum with inscriptions . Among other curiosities , an immense block of stone has been dug from one of these mounds , on which are sculptured the figures of men and animals . The differing opinions of travellers with respect ...
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... piece of money , which was spent in purchasing the statues of deities . An amphora , or ancient Roman jar , has been described by Fosbrooke , on which was an inscription , denoting that it was a New Year's Gift from the potters to their ...
... piece of money , which was spent in purchasing the statues of deities . An amphora , or ancient Roman jar , has been described by Fosbrooke , on which was an inscription , denoting that it was a New Year's Gift from the potters to their ...
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Page 159 - 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 96 - Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.
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 30 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...
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 7 - 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 171 - 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 120 - Commerce tends to wear off those prejudices which maintain distinction and animosity between nations. It softens and polishes the manners of men. It unites them by one of the strongest of all ties, the desire of supplying their mutual wants.
Page 45 - One alone, the red-breast, sacred to the household gods, wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, in joyless fields and thorny thickets, leaves his shivering mates, and pays to trusted man his annual visit. Half afraid, he first, against the window beats; then brisk alights on the warm hearth; then hopping o'er the floor, eyes all the smiling family askance, and pecks and starts and wonders where he is; till more familiar grown, the table crumbs attract his slender feet.
Page 13 - 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.