The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Том 1Francis S. Wiggins, 1831 |
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... less than infinite could pro- duce those wonderful bodies which the heavens present to our view ? What architect could build such vast masses , and in such innumerable multitudes , as the heavens contain ? What mathematician could so ex ...
... less than infinite could pro- duce those wonderful bodies which the heavens present to our view ? What architect could build such vast masses , and in such innumerable multitudes , as the heavens contain ? What mathematician could so ex ...
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... less lucid and transparent ; and of which the lucid ones furnish us with light and heat . It appears , from these observations , that the body of the Sun is opaque , like our earth and the planets . And this opinion seems much more ...
... less lucid and transparent ; and of which the lucid ones furnish us with light and heat . It appears , from these observations , that the body of the Sun is opaque , like our earth and the planets . And this opinion seems much more ...
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... less any vapours which could be supposed to be generated so far below the surface . Who is to decide when learned doctors disa- gree ? Let us now hear what the unenlightened na- tions have to say on this subject . Of all the great phe ...
... less any vapours which could be supposed to be generated so far below the surface . Who is to decide when learned doctors disa- gree ? Let us now hear what the unenlightened na- tions have to say on this subject . Of all the great phe ...
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... less deserve a place in this biography . Nature had endowed his body with singular address and agility , and his mind with unusual intelligence and penetration . He had a soul of no common temper ; and from his earliest years he ...
... less deserve a place in this biography . Nature had endowed his body with singular address and agility , and his mind with unusual intelligence and penetration . He had a soul of no common temper ; and from his earliest years he ...
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... but animate with a gener- ous zeal the tender minds of youth , and produce from age to age the repetition of actions not less praise- worthy . POPULAR AND INSTRUCTIVE TALES . THE SIGHTLESS . I do 24 Lives of celebrated Children .
... but animate with a gener- ous zeal the tender minds of youth , and produce from age to age the repetition of actions not less praise- worthy . POPULAR AND INSTRUCTIVE TALES . THE SIGHTLESS . I do 24 Lives of celebrated Children .
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ancient animal ant-hill appears Areopagus Assyrian atmosphere Babylon beautiful body breath bright brother called character clouds Coragus dark death Dioxippus distance dwelling earth ecliptic elevated father feel feet female flowers friends globe glory Greece habits hand happy hath heart heaven height HENRY KIRKE WHITE hope human hundred inhabitants insects interesting king kingdom Lamprocles land light live look Lycurgus Medes miles mind monarch MONTHLY REPOSITORY Moon mother Mount Taurus mountains nature never night Nineveh Northend o'er object observed ocean Paraguay Persian persons pleasure present Rehoboam reign render rise river rocks ruins says scene Scythians seen Semiramis smile sorrow soul Sparta species spirit stars surface sweet tears temple TEN LOST TRIBES thee thine thing thou thought thousand tion trees virtue voice young youth
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Страница 132 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Страница 8 - Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language: Where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth: And their words to the end of the world.
Страница 72 - Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Страница 236 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled ; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Страница 237 - GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that 'every 'imagination of the thoughts of his heart wan only evil 2 continually.
Страница 168 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Страница 271 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world, with kings, The powerful of the earth, the wise, the good, Fair forms and hoary seers of ages past — All in one mighty sepulchre.
Страница 271 - 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!
Страница 111 - Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.
Страница 367 - With all the visionary fervor of his imagination, its fondest dreams fell short of the reality. He died in ignorance of the real grandeur of his discovery! Until his last breath, he entertained the idea that he had merely opened a new way to the old resorts of opulent commerce, and had discovered some of the wild regions of the East. He supposed Hispaniola to be the ancient Ophir, which had been visited by the ships of King Solomon, and that Cuba and Terra Firma were but remote parts of Asia.