The Youth's Companion: Or An Historical Dictionary; Consisting of Articles Selected Chiefly from Natural and Civil History, Geography, Astronomy, Zoology, Botany and Mineralogy; Arranged in Alphabetical OrderWebsters and Skinners, 1813 - 424 էջ |
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... plants or vegetables , conduces to human safety , convenience , and sustenance , so it tends also to improve and exalt the moral sentiment ; foras- much as the workmanship displayed in the structure of the meanest animal that breathes ...
... plants or vegetables , conduces to human safety , convenience , and sustenance , so it tends also to improve and exalt the moral sentiment ; foras- much as the workmanship displayed in the structure of the meanest animal that breathes ...
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... Plant Rhinoceros Sennar Rhode - Island Sensitive Palma Christi Plantane Rhone Plant Palmist Plata Rhubarb Serpe Nera Palmyra Platina Rice Shark Pan Pleiades River Horse Shea Tree Panacea Plummet Romans Shepherd Pandects Poisoned Ar ...
... Plant Rhinoceros Sennar Rhode - Island Sensitive Palma Christi Plantane Rhone Plant Palmist Plata Rhubarb Serpe Nera Palmyra Platina Rice Shark Pan Pleiades River Horse Shea Tree Panacea Plummet Romans Shepherd Pandects Poisoned Ar ...
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... Plants Tennessee Varnish Tree Wild Men Suez Thibet Vegetable Wild Pine Sugar Thorn Plant Diet Willow Sugar Cane Tide Venice Wind Sugar Maple Tiger Venus Winter's Sulphur Tigris Venus Cinnamon Sumach Tin Vermont Wire Sumatra Tobacco ...
... Plants Tennessee Varnish Tree Wild Men Suez Thibet Vegetable Wild Pine Sugar Thorn Plant Diet Willow Sugar Cane Tide Venice Wind Sugar Maple Tiger Venus Winter's Sulphur Tigris Venus Cinnamon Sumach Tin Vermont Wire Sumatra Tobacco ...
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... plants , are verdant all the year round . The rivers and lakes are infested with crocodiles , alligators , and serpents . Their banks are inhabited by different tribes of Indians , governed by petty sovereigns , distin- guished from ...
... plants , are verdant all the year round . The rivers and lakes are infested with crocodiles , alligators , and serpents . Their banks are inhabited by different tribes of Indians , governed by petty sovereigns , distin- guished from ...
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... plants , like cattle in our meadows ; which repose under the shade of a down imperceptible to the naked eye ..... St . Pierre . ANJOU CABBAGE , a very useful vegetable , which till very lately , was unknown in England . The seed was ...
... plants , like cattle in our meadows ; which repose under the shade of a down imperceptible to the naked eye ..... St . Pierre . ANJOU CABBAGE , a very useful vegetable , which till very lately , was unknown in England . The seed was ...
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Էջ 332 - The Sanscrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Էջ 4 - In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled " An Act for the Encouragement of ^earning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned," and also to an Act entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned, and extending the Benefits...
Էջ 298 - One man draws out the wire; another straights it; a third cuts it; a fourth points it; a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head...
Էջ 209 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Էջ 199 - First Moloch, horrid king besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears, Though for the noise of drums and timbrels loud Their children's cries unheard, that passed through fire To his grim idol. Him the Ammonite Worshipped in Rabba and her watery plain, In Argob and in Basan, to the stream Of utmost Arnon.
Էջ 4 - BBOWN, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit : " Sertorius : or, the Roman Patriot.
Էջ 149 - ... from the size of a pin's head, to that of a pea; scattered through a large body of sand or clay; and in this state, it is called by the Mandingoes sanoo munko,
Էջ 30 - The air was sweet and plaintive, and the words, literally translated, were these. "The winds roared, and the rains fell. The poor white man, faint and weary, came and sat under our tree. He has no mother to bring him milk; no wife to grind his corn.
Էջ 68 - And they sat down to eat bread. And they lifted up their eyes and looked ; and behold a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead with their camels, bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.
Էջ 387 - Welcome, mighty chief, once more Welcome to this grateful shore : Now no mercenary foe Aims again the fatal blow ; Aims at thee the fatal blow. " Virgins fair and matrons grave, Those thy conquering arms did save, Build for thee triumphal bowers. Strew, ye fair, his way with flowers ; Strew your Hero's way with flowers.