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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... inches long , are shuffled together ; and the players after many contortions and invokings of their genii , separate them into fine parcels of ten each , and one of eleven . Every one then draws a parcel , and he who gets that ...
... inches long , are shuffled together ; and the players after many contortions and invokings of their genii , separate them into fine parcels of ten each , and one of eleven . Every one then draws a parcel , and he who gets that ...
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... inches long and one inch in diameter . Connected with the manderil are six parts of the machine , independent of each other . The first introduces a certain length of wire into the chops of the corone ; the second shuts the chops and ...
... inches long and one inch in diameter . Connected with the manderil are six parts of the machine , independent of each other . The first introduces a certain length of wire into the chops of the corone ; the second shuts the chops and ...
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... inches long and one inch in diameter . Connected with the manderil are six parts of the machine , independent of each other . The first introduces a certain length of wire into the chops of the corone ; the second shuts thệ - chops and ...
... inches long and one inch in diameter . Connected with the manderil are six parts of the machine , independent of each other . The first introduces a certain length of wire into the chops of the corone ; the second shuts thệ - chops and ...
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... inches deep , and of an oozy , soapy nature underneath , it easily separates from the next immediate substratum , which consists of a slippery chalk , flat stones , or loose gravel . When the soil slides in large pieces its motion is ...
... inches deep , and of an oozy , soapy nature underneath , it easily separates from the next immediate substratum , which consists of a slippery chalk , flat stones , or loose gravel . When the soil slides in large pieces its motion is ...
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... inches of the surface of the earth , boiling fiercer than a sugar copper , and sending up strong clouds of steam into the air . No kind of grass will grow within twelve yards of these springs , the soil being wholly sulphureous , and so ...
... inches of the surface of the earth , boiling fiercer than a sugar copper , and sending up strong clouds of steam into the air . No kind of grass will grow within twelve yards of these springs , the soil being wholly sulphureous , and so ...
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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...