The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, 4 tomasFrancis S. Wiggins, 1834 |
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... colours , sounds , electricity , galvanism , and magnetism , and the laws of their operation - the causes which ope- rate in the production of thunder , lightning , luminous and fiery meteors , hail , rain , snow , dew , and other at ...
... colours , sounds , electricity , galvanism , and magnetism , and the laws of their operation - the causes which ope- rate in the production of thunder , lightning , luminous and fiery meteors , hail , rain , snow , dew , and other at ...
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... coloured earth used in the bricks of the buildings , resembles , at a 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 ...
... coloured earth used in the bricks of the buildings , resembles , at a 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 ...
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... colours , and the most varied forms . * These form natural festoons , which hang be- fore the mouth of the cave , and are gently agitated by the passing currents of air . What a contrast between such a scene and the gloomy entrances to ...
... colours , and the most varied forms . * These form natural festoons , which hang be- fore the mouth of the cave , and are gently agitated by the passing currents of air . What a contrast between such a scene and the gloomy entrances to ...
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... colour and hue , that in every direction salutes his eye . In this respect , also , the sun may be said to be the fountain of cheerfulness , as it is certainly the cause of color ! The sun is the great limner of nature , whose ...
... colour and hue , that in every direction salutes his eye . In this respect , also , the sun may be said to be the fountain of cheerfulness , as it is certainly the cause of color ! The sun is the great limner of nature , whose ...
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... colour ; and , but for this , what disadvantages would we labour under , notwithstanding the beneficial distribution of light and heat . In that case , we would not only be unable to distinguish objects at a distance , and to perceive ...
... colour ; and , but for this , what disadvantages would we labour under , notwithstanding the beneficial distribution of light and heat . In that case , we would not only be unable to distinguish objects at a distance , and to perceive ...
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AGAMI HERON animal appearance banks beauty belted kingfisher birds body Calabria called cataract cavern coast colour covered crater dark deep delightful distance earth earthquake feet flowers Flustra frequently GEORGE CROLY GRANDE CHARTREUSE ground GUACHARO habits heaven height hills hour houses hundred inches INDIAN IDOL inhabitants island king land leaves length light living manner ment mercury metal miles mind MONTHLY REPOSITORY moon motion MOUNT VESUVIUS mountain mouth Naples natives nature nearly nest never night o'er observed ocean ornaments Paradise Lost passed plain plants present puma rise river rock ROCK SAMPHIRE rocking stone says scene seen shore side Sierra Leone sometimes Soosoo species spring stone stream surface surrounded temple thing thou tide tide-wave Timbuctoo tion torrent travellers trees vegetable vessel waves whole wind wood young
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30 psl. - Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun...
407 psl. - 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.
34 psl. - 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...
333 psl. - 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.
257 psl. - 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.
72 psl. - 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.
407 psl. - 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?
370 psl. - 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.
333 psl. - 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.
334 psl. - 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.