The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 4Francis S. Wiggins, 1834 |
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... distance of five or six miles . In the construction of the houses , lava and volcanic debris are worked up with tufa . Blocks of la- va meet you every where . They are thrown into the sea to form piers and jettees , and the finer sorts ...
... distance of five or six miles . In the construction of the houses , lava and volcanic debris are worked up with tufa . Blocks of la- va meet you every where . They are thrown into the sea to form piers and jettees , and the finer sorts ...
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... distance , a number of large straw bee - hives . We entered the city through the Bab - el - Ullah , or the gate of God , so called from its leading to Jerusalem and Mecca - both holy cities , and buth places of pilgrimage , the last ...
... distance , a number of large straw bee - hives . We entered the city through the Bab - el - Ullah , or the gate of God , so called from its leading to Jerusalem and Mecca - both holy cities , and buth places of pilgrimage , the last ...
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... distance of 430 feet , owing to the continuous direction of the cavern , which allows the light of day to penetrate thus far ; and when this began to fail , the hoarse cries of the nocturnal birds , whence the place derives its name and ...
... distance of 430 feet , owing to the continuous direction of the cavern , which allows the light of day to penetrate thus far ; and when this began to fail , the hoarse cries of the nocturnal birds , whence the place derives its name and ...
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... distance of 1458 feet from the mouth ; the travellers on turning round , were struck with the singularly beautiful ap- pearance which a hill covered with the richest vegeta- tion , immediately fronting the entrance of the grotto ...
... distance of 1458 feet from the mouth ; the travellers on turning round , were struck with the singularly beautiful ap- pearance which a hill covered with the richest vegeta- tion , immediately fronting the entrance of the grotto ...
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... distance of this bright body from us , that , were the motion of light no swifter than a cannon ball , it would take , according to the computa- tion of philosophers , thirty - two years in arriving at the earth ; and were it no swifter ...
... distance of this bright body from us , that , were the motion of light no swifter than a cannon ball , it would take , according to the computa- tion of philosophers , thirty - two years in arriving at the earth ; and were it no swifter ...
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Page 30 - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
Page 407 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin; and yet I say unto you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 34 - They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows; "Friends," says he, and neighbours, "the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot...
Page 333 - To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share and treads upon : the oak Shall send his roots abroad and pierce thy mould.
Page 257 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 334 - The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are shining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages. All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom.