The National Magazine: Devoted to Literature, Art, and Religion, Том 8Abel Stevens, James Floy Carlton & Phillips, 1856 |
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... four to six inches wide and two inches thick . The logs were chained in this manner at both ends , thus forming a double chain , or , as many suppose , what is known in military phrase as a boom . This chain , it is said , was never ...
... four to six inches wide and two inches thick . The logs were chained in this manner at both ends , thus forming a double chain , or , as many suppose , what is known in military phrase as a boom . This chain , it is said , was never ...
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... four feet and a half in length , and weighs between four and five pounds . Their voracity is almost incredible — their favorite food carrion , and filth of all kinds . They prey especially upon the eggs of alligators , and are thus ...
... four feet and a half in length , and weighs between four and five pounds . Their voracity is almost incredible — their favorite food carrion , and filth of all kinds . They prey especially upon the eggs of alligators , and are thus ...
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... four days , the young condor , on the 30th of June , about six o'clock in the morning , began to break the walls of its prison . The process of hatching was very slow . The young bird was not extricated from the egg until after twenty ...
... four days , the young condor , on the 30th of June , about six o'clock in the morning , began to break the walls of its prison . The process of hatching was very slow . The young bird was not extricated from the egg until after twenty ...
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... four feet across . " The regular arrival of this noted and very beautiful bird , " says Wilson , " when the busy season of fishing commences , adds peculiar interest to its first appearance , and procures it many a benediction from the ...
... four feet across . " The regular arrival of this noted and very beautiful bird , " says Wilson , " when the busy season of fishing commences , adds peculiar interest to its first appearance , and procures it many a benediction from the ...
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... four or five of them . We made our appearance openly upon the bank , guns in hand , and the living swarm of birds rose at once into the air . The " The trained hawks were now brought into hawks circled above them , however , in a rapid ...
... four or five of them . We made our appearance openly upon the bank , guns in hand , and the living swarm of birds rose at once into the air . The " The trained hawks were now brought into hawks circled above them , however , in a rapid ...
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Страница 35 - I wind about and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling; And here and there a foamy flake Upon me, as I travel With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel...
Страница 357 - And the eye cannot say to the hand, ' I have no need of thee ' ; nor again the head to the feet,
Страница 35 - I CHATTER over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow.
Страница 35 - I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley. By thirty hills I hurry down, Or slip between the ridges, By twenty thorps, a little town, And half a hundred bridges.
Страница 519 - And the times of this ignorance God winked at ; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent : because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained ; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Страница 212 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes; As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Страница 12 - By his wide curvature of wing and sudden suspension in air, he knows him to be the fish-hawk, settling over some devoted victim of the deep. His eye kindles at the sight, and balancing himself with half-opened wings on the branch, he watches the result. Down, rapid as an arrow from heaven, descends the distant object of his attention, the roar of its wings reaching the ear, as it disappears in the deep, making the surges foam around ! At this moment the eager looks of the eagle are all...
Страница 404 - Suspend the effect, or heal it ? Has not God Still wrought by means since first he made the world ? And did he not of old employ his means To drown it ? What is his creation less Than a capacious reservoir of means, Formed for his use, and ready at his will...
Страница 212 - Glides through the pathways ; she knows all their notes. That gentle Maid ! and oft a moment's space, What time the moon was lost behind a cloud, Hath heard a pause of silence...
Страница 519 - And Paul said, I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.