The American Reader: Containing Extracts Suited to Excite a Love of Science and Literature, to Refine the Taste, and to Improve the Moral Character. Designed for the Use of SchoolsD.F. Robinson, 1828 - 276 стор. |
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... miles long , and three miles broad ! To estimate the number of individuals in all the differ- ent species would , therefore , be as impossible as to count the grains of sand in the Arabian deserts . There is not a single spot , in any ...
... miles long , and three miles broad ! To estimate the number of individuals in all the differ- ent species would , therefore , be as impossible as to count the grains of sand in the Arabian deserts . There is not a single spot , in any ...
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... miles , and its circumference about 25,000 ; and , conse- quently , its surface contains nearly two hundred millions of square miles - a magnitude too great for the mind to take in at one conception . In order to form THE AMERICAN ...
... miles , and its circumference about 25,000 ; and , conse- quently , its surface contains nearly two hundred millions of square miles - a magnitude too great for the mind to take in at one conception . In order to form THE AMERICAN ...
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... miles in every direction , forming a circle 80 miles in diameter , and 250 in circum- ference , and comprehending an area of 5,000 square miles . In such a situation , the terrestrial scene around and be- neath us , consisting of hills ...
... miles in every direction , forming a circle 80 miles in diameter , and 250 in circum- ference , and comprehending an area of 5,000 square miles . In such a situation , the terrestrial scene around and be- neath us , consisting of hills ...
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... miles in every direction . The solid contents of this ponderous ball is no less than 263,858,149,120 cubical miles - a mass of material sub- stance of which we can form but a very faint and imper- fect conception - in proportion to ...
... miles in every direction . The solid contents of this ponderous ball is no less than 263,858,149,120 cubical miles - a mass of material sub- stance of which we can form but a very faint and imper- fect conception - in proportion to ...
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... miles thick , its internal cavity would be sufficient to contain a quantity of materials one hundred and thirty - three times greater than the whole mass of continents , islands , and oceans , on its surface , and the foundations on ...
... miles thick , its internal cavity would be sufficient to contain a quantity of materials one hundred and thirty - three times greater than the whole mass of continents , islands , and oceans , on its surface , and the foundations on ...
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Сторінка 89 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Сторінка 89 - Are we disposed to be of the number of those who having eyes see not, and having ears hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it.
Сторінка 91 - There is a just God, who presides over the destinies of nations ; and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone ; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Сторінка 132 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free!
Сторінка 89 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Сторінка 204 - But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Сторінка 173 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set - but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!
Сторінка 205 - And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity ; so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course (wheel) of nature ; and it is set on fire of hell.
Сторінка 238 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony: who, though he had no hand in his death , shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth ; As which of you shall not ? With this I depart ; That, as I slew my bes't lover" for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
Сторінка 172 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favourite tree ; Another came : nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he : The next, with dirges due in sad array Slow through the churchway path we saw him borne, — Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.