Evenings at Home, Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened: Consisting of a Variety of Miscellaneous Pieces for the Instruction and Amusement of Young PersonsBaldwin, Cradock, and Joy, and R. Hunter, successor to J. Johnson, 1819 |
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... whole tree a sort of round form , and making it spread far on every side . Its branches are also subject to be crooked or kneed . By these marks you might guess at an Oak even in winter , when quite bare of leaves . But its leaves ...
... whole tree a sort of round form , and making it spread far on every side . Its branches are also subject to be crooked or kneed . By these marks you might guess at an Oak even in winter , when quite bare of leaves . But its leaves ...
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... whole fields full of extremely odori- ferous flowers , which they told me were succeeded by pods bearing seeds , that afforded good nourishment to man and beast . A great variety of birds enli- vened the groves and woods ; among which I ...
... whole fields full of extremely odori- ferous flowers , which they told me were succeeded by pods bearing seeds , that afforded good nourishment to man and beast . A great variety of birds enli- vened the groves and woods ; among which I ...
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... whole trees , only stripped of the bark and squared . You would also see great piles of planks and boards , of different lengths and thickness . Those are called deal , and are brought over ready sawn from the countries where they grow ...
... whole trees , only stripped of the bark and squared . You would also see great piles of planks and boards , of different lengths and thickness . Those are called deal , and are brought over ready sawn from the countries where they grow ...
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... whole , Rooks are reckoned the farmers ' friends : and they do not choose to have them destroyed . Fr. Do all Rooks live in Rookeries ? Mr. St. It is the general nature of them to associate together , and build in numbers on the same or ...
... whole , Rooks are reckoned the farmers ' friends : and they do not choose to have them destroyed . Fr. Do all Rooks live in Rookeries ? Mr. St. It is the general nature of them to associate together , and build in numbers on the same or ...
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... whole flock returns , making a loud cawing as they fly , as if to direct and call in the stragglers . The older Rooks take the lead : you may distinguish them by the whiteness of their bills , occasioned by their frequent digging in the ...
... whole flock returns , making a loud cawing as they fly , as if to direct and call in the stragglers . The older Rooks take the lead : you may distinguish them by the whiteness of their bills , occasioned by their frequent digging in the ...
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Evenings at Home, Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened: Consisting of a ..., Հատոր 1 John Aikin Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1829 |
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Էջ 152 - And what is a conqueror ? Have not you, too, gone about the earth like an evil genius, blasting the fair fruits of peace and industry ; plundering, ravaging, killing, without law, without justice, merely to gratify an insatiable lust for dominion...
Էջ 150 - I don't mind it much, for my mammy gives me a pie now and then, and that is as good. Mr. L. Would you not like a knife, to cut sticks ? B. I have one, here it is.
Էջ 31 - pray what are coals but stones ; and is not butter, grease ; and corn, seeds ; and leather, skins ; and silk, the web of a kind of caterpillar ; and may we not as well call a cat an animal of the tiger kind, as a tiger an animal of the cat kind...
Էջ 152 - And does not Fame speak of me too ? Was there ever a bolder captain of a more valiant band ? Was there ever — but I scorn to boast.
Էջ 153 - If I have burned a few hamlets, you have desolated the most flourishing kingdoms and cities of the earth. What is then the difference, but that...
Էջ 150 - Hast thou not set at defiance my authority ; violated the public peace ; and passed thy life in injuring the persons and properties of thy fellowsubjects ? ROBBER.
Էջ 149 - No, sir ; but our Tom makes footballs, to kick in the cold weather, and we set traps for birds ; and then I have a...
Էջ 73 - His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Էջ 161 - I have no allurements to tempt you with, like those of my gay rival. Instead of spending all your time in amusements, if you enter yourself of my train, you must rise early, and pass the long day in a variety of employments, some of them difficult, some laborious, and all requiring some exertion of body or mind.
Էջ 153 - But if I have taken like a king, I have given like a king. If I have subverted empires, I have founded greater.