The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 4Francis S. Wiggins, 1834 |
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... travellers to rival , and by others to surpass , in beauty , Constantino- ple , which we have described to our readers . This ancient and every way remarkable city rises like an amphitheatre at the back of a magnificent bay more than ...
... travellers to rival , and by others to surpass , in beauty , Constantino- ple , which we have described to our readers . This ancient and every way remarkable city rises like an amphitheatre at the back of a magnificent bay more than ...
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... travellers have generally chosen to describe it . Naples , which occupies the ground of both Palæpolis and Neapolis , towns of ancient and Grecian origin , is an open and irregularly built city ; its greatest length is along the sea ...
... travellers have generally chosen to describe it . Naples , which occupies the ground of both Palæpolis and Neapolis , towns of ancient and Grecian origin , is an open and irregularly built city ; its greatest length is along the sea ...
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... parchment was substituted . A minute and accurate description of this plant , and of the manner of converting it into paper , are to be found in Pliny's Natural History . Our enterprising traveller , Bruce 18 Papyrus .
... parchment was substituted . A minute and accurate description of this plant , and of the manner of converting it into paper , are to be found in Pliny's Natural History . Our enterprising traveller , Bruce 18 Papyrus .
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... traveller made several pieces of papyrus paper both in Abyssinia and in Egypt , and fully ascertained that the saccharine juice , with which the plant is replete , causes the adhesion of the parts together , the water being only of use ...
... traveller made several pieces of papyrus paper both in Abyssinia and in Egypt , and fully ascertained that the saccharine juice , with which the plant is replete , causes the adhesion of the parts together , the water being only of use ...
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... travellers across a fine verdant plain , when they turned westward , and were guided by a small river , which issues from the mouth of the cave . During three - quarters of an hour , they continued 24 Cavern of the Guacharo . No VIII.
... travellers across a fine verdant plain , when they turned westward , and were guided by a small river , which issues from the mouth of the cave . During three - quarters of an hour , they continued 24 Cavern of the Guacharo . No VIII.
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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.
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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.