The People's Magazine, Volume 1Lilly, Wait, Colman, and Holden, 1834 |
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... tion of every one : -they appear to be founded on the soundest principles . The application of heat to the human body , after intense cold , is attended with the most dreadful consequences ; it always produces extreme pain , and , most ...
... tion of every one : -they appear to be founded on the soundest principles . The application of heat to the human body , after intense cold , is attended with the most dreadful consequences ; it always produces extreme pain , and , most ...
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... tion upon this great canal is prodigious , and the work does honor to the sagacity and enterprise of those who planned it . The number of canal boats that arrived at , and departed from Albany , during 1830 , was 12,830 , conveying more ...
... tion upon this great canal is prodigious , and the work does honor to the sagacity and enterprise of those who planned it . The number of canal boats that arrived at , and departed from Albany , during 1830 , was 12,830 , conveying more ...
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... tion the utmost prudence and firmness are necessary to check their ferocious propensities , and confine them within proper bounds . They are generally employed on the east side of the mountains , but we had a few of them on the Columbia ...
... tion the utmost prudence and firmness are necessary to check their ferocious propensities , and confine them within proper bounds . They are generally employed on the east side of the mountains , but we had a few of them on the Columbia ...
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... tion , leaving you to judge how far rifle - shooting is understood in that State . Several individuals who conceive themselves ex- pert in the management of the gun are often seen to meet for the purpose of displaying their skill ; and ...
... tion , leaving you to judge how far rifle - shooting is understood in that State . Several individuals who conceive themselves ex- pert in the management of the gun are often seen to meet for the purpose of displaying their skill ; and ...
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... tion of a day or two , crows coming from all quarters to the session . As soon as they are all arrived , a very general noise ensues , the business of the court is opened , and shortly after , they all fall upon one or two individual ...
... tion of a day or two , crows coming from all quarters to the session . As soon as they are all arrived , a very general noise ensues , the business of the court is opened , and shortly after , they all fall upon one or two individual ...
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Page 84 - FRIEND after friend departs : Who hath not lost a friend ? There is no union here of hearts That finds not here an end: Were this frail world our only rest.
Page 183 - A fire devoureth before them ; and behind them a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
Page 116 - I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Page 51 - Even in its very motion there was rest ; While every breath of eve that chanced to blow Wafted the traveller to the beauteous west. Emblem, methought, of the departed soul, To whose white robe the gleam of bliss is given ; And by the breath of mercy made to roll Right onward to the golden gates of Heaven ; Where to the eye of Faith it peaceful lies, And tells to man his glorious destinies.
Page 180 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 188 - Who toss the golden and the flame-like flowers, And pass the prairie-hawk that, poised on high, Flaps his broad wings, yet moves not - ye have played Among the palms of Mexico and vines Of Texas, and have crisped the limpid brooks That from the fountains of Sonora glide Into the calm Pacific - have ye fanned A nobler or a lovelier scene than this?
Page 84 - Beyond the flight of time, Beyond the reign of death, There surely is some blessed clime Where life is not a breath. Nor life's affections transient fire, Whose sparks fly upward and expire.
Page 30 - Outflying the blast and the driving rain, The petrel telleth her tale — in vain...
Page 101 - Till I have done with this new day, Which now is painful to these eyes, Which have not seen the sun so rise For years — I cannot count them o'er, I lost their long and heavy score, When my last brother droop'd and died, And I lay living by his side.
Page 15 - Is this a time to be cloudy and sad, When our mother Nature laughs around; When even the deep blue heavens look glad, And gladness breathes from the blossoming ground?