The Analectic Magazine ...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography, Analytical Abstracts of New Publications, Translations from French Journals, and Selections from the Most Esteemed British Reviews : V. 1-14, 1813-19 : New Ser., V. 1-2, 1820, Volume 11M. Thomas, 1818 |
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... passed a number of plants which may probably remain unknown for ages . Let us hope that he may be speedily followed up by others , actuated by equal en- thusiasm and desire . juvat intactos accedere fontes , Atque haurire , juvatque ...
... passed a number of plants which may probably remain unknown for ages . Let us hope that he may be speedily followed up by others , actuated by equal en- thusiasm and desire . juvat intactos accedere fontes , Atque haurire , juvatque ...
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... passed the range of hills . forming the boundary of the Missouri ; and , as I had before experienced , found the soil and face of the country to improve very much as we leave the river . The hills , with the intervening valleys , were ...
... passed the range of hills . forming the boundary of the Missouri ; and , as I had before experienced , found the soil and face of the country to improve very much as we leave the river . The hills , with the intervening valleys , were ...
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... passed , and cannot be prevented , should not be grieved for . Be not discouraged or displeased then , that in visiting your father here , you have lost your chief . A misfortune of this kind may never again befal you , but this would ...
... passed , and cannot be prevented , should not be grieved for . Be not discouraged or displeased then , that in visiting your father here , you have lost your chief . A misfortune of this kind may never again befal you , but this would ...
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... passing through the troughs , continue to load their teeth with cotton , which is instantly thrown off by the brush , and in a few minutes nothing remains in the trough but bare seeds . The management of this gin is mostly committed to ...
... passing through the troughs , continue to load their teeth with cotton , which is instantly thrown off by the brush , and in a few minutes nothing remains in the trough but bare seeds . The management of this gin is mostly committed to ...
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... passing Davis ' straits , he found him- self in the 75th of latitude , in the frozen ocean , and steering west , one ... passed its outlet in March , during which he VOL . XI . 4 suffered excessively in consequence of the cold weather ...
... passing Davis ' straits , he found him- self in the 75th of latitude , in the frozen ocean , and steering west , one ... passed its outlet in March , during which he VOL . XI . 4 suffered excessively in consequence of the cold weather ...
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Page 67 - And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen; Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord : peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
Page 446 - I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver; and he finished so admirably that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all.
Page 459 - I seldom attended any public worship, I had still an opinion of its propriety, and of its utility when rightly conducted, and I regularly paid my annual subscription for the support of the only Presbyterian minister or meeting we had in Philadelphia.
Page 445 - For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer with a pewter spoon.
Page 445 - But mark how luxury will enter families, and make a progress, in spite of principle : being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a China bowl, with a spoon of silver!
Page 349 - Hamlet is a name: his speeches and sayings but the idle coinage of the poet's brain. What then, are they not real? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet.
Page 445 - I am still of opinion that it was a practicable scheme, and might have been very useful, by forming a great number of good citizens; and I was not discouraged by the seeming magnitude of the undertaking, as I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole study...
Page 421 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Page 447 - His delivery of the latter was so improved by frequent repetition, that every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music.