The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Том 4Francis S. Wiggins, 1834 |
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... banks of the Nile . Ac- cording to a passage in Lucan , which is likewise corro- borated by other authorities , this paper was first manu- factured at Memphis , but it has been a matter of much controversy to fix the precise period of ...
... banks of the Nile . Ac- cording to a passage in Lucan , which is likewise corro- borated by other authorities , this paper was first manu- factured at Memphis , but it has been a matter of much controversy to fix the precise period of ...
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... banks of this subterranean stream into the grotto , beheld them with astonishment , adorned for thirty or forty yards * For the sake of our botanical readers , we may state , that among these the Baron enumerates a Dendrobium ( family ...
... banks of this subterranean stream into the grotto , beheld them with astonishment , adorned for thirty or forty yards * For the sake of our botanical readers , we may state , that among these the Baron enumerates a Dendrobium ( family ...
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... banks of the stream which issues from it , and is from twenty to thirty feet wide ; they pursued this course as far as the hills formed of the calcareous depositions admitted . When the torrent wound among high masses of stalactites ...
... banks of the stream which issues from it , and is from twenty to thirty feet wide ; they pursued this course as far as the hills formed of the calcareous depositions admitted . When the torrent wound among high masses of stalactites ...
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... bank of the river . The inhabitants , estimated at about 1200 , are entirely employ- ed in lading and unlading the numerous barks which touch at the quay . In the evening of the 10th April , Caille , with some companions , rode from ...
... bank of the river . The inhabitants , estimated at about 1200 , are entirely employ- ed in lading and unlading the numerous barks which touch at the quay . In the evening of the 10th April , Caille , with some companions , rode from ...
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... banks , their hours of ease , in the months when they rested from the chase . These children of the forest had the most exquisite taste for rural scenery ; their villages and small settlements all prove the truth of this remark ; and ...
... banks , their hours of ease , in the months when they rested from the chase . These children of the forest had the most exquisite taste for rural scenery ; their villages and small settlements all prove the truth of this remark ; and ...
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Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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?
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
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