The Wonders of Nature and Art: Or, A Concise Account of Whatever is Most Curious and Remarkable in the World; Whether Relating to Its Animal, Vegetable and Mineral Productions, Or to the Manufactures, Buildings and Inventions of Its Inhabitants, Compiled from Historical and Geographical Works of Established Celebrity, and Illustrated with the Discoveries of Modern Travellers, 10권J. Walker, 1804 |
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... English do from Canada and New Britain . The usual dress of these Indians consists of a pair of stockings , made of pliable leather ; a sort of loose jacket with sleeves of the same kind , and over all a drest buffalo - skin . Young men ...
... English do from Canada and New Britain . The usual dress of these Indians consists of a pair of stockings , made of pliable leather ; a sort of loose jacket with sleeves of the same kind , and over all a drest buffalo - skin . Young men ...
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... English des- cent ; and it is owing to this circumstance and to the general attention paid to education , that the English language has been preserved among them in great purity . Some travellers , indeed , have observed that a New ...
... English des- cent ; and it is owing to this circumstance and to the general attention paid to education , that the English language has been preserved among them in great purity . Some travellers , indeed , have observed that a New ...
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... English schools has already had a considerable effect on the improvement of the English language . - The manners of the people vary materially , according to their situation . The ancestors of the inhabitants of the southern and middle ...
... English schools has already had a considerable effect on the improvement of the English language . - The manners of the people vary materially , according to their situation . The ancestors of the inhabitants of the southern and middle ...
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... English manners in a certain degree , but still retain many modes which are peculiar to Hollanders . They were the first settlers of this state , and continued to be amicably disposed towards the English colonies east of them , till an ...
... English manners in a certain degree , but still retain many modes which are peculiar to Hollanders . They were the first settlers of this state , and continued to be amicably disposed towards the English colonies east of them , till an ...
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... English ladies , yet they make as good wives and as good mothers as any in the world . " " A spirit for literary enquiries , " says another author , if not altogether confined to a few , is , among the body of the Virginians , evidently ...
... English ladies , yet they make as good wives and as good mothers as any in the world . " " A spirit for literary enquiries , " says another author , if not altogether confined to a few , is , among the body of the Virginians , evidently ...
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119 페이지 - Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise : Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
94 페이지 - Whoever sits down, will sleep; and whoever sleeps, will wake no more." Every one seemed accordingly armed with resolution ; but on a sudden the cold became so intense, as to threaten the most direful effects. It was remarkable, that Dr.
52 페이지 - The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit shall not be prohibited by Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight; but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.
119 페이지 - Lest total Darkness should by night regain Her old possession, and extinguish life In nature and all things ; which these soft fires Not only...
39 페이지 - These dances are without any method or regularity: a Gentleman and Lady stand up, and dance about the room, one of them retiring, the other pursuing, then perhaps meeting, in an irregular fantastical manner. After some time, another Lady gets up, and then the first Lady must sit down, she being, as they term it, cut out: the second Lady acts the same part which the first did, till somebody cuts her out. The Gentlemen perform in the same manner, [footnote:] The author has since had an opportunity...
53 페이지 - Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors equal to the number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress...
119 페이지 - These then, though unbeheld in deep of night, Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise...
90 페이지 - ... the margins undulated, each undulation enlarged to the bottom till they join the opposite. On the surface, the margin or first undulation is distant from the opposite from 4 to 6 feet, and the same depth before they coalesce; but where the angles of the aureolce oppose, the chasms or ramifications are wider and deeper.
119 페이지 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
79 페이지 - In this solitude he continued four years' and four months, during which time only two incidents happened which he thought worth relating, the occurrences of every day being in his circumstances nearly similar. The one was, that...