Surveys of nature: a sequel to mrs. Trimmer's IntroductionJohn Radcock, 1802 |
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... troduction was a very serviceable work for the perusal , and not above the compre hension of my younger pupils , something on the same plan , but on a rather more enlarged • enlarged scale , with more particular de- scriptions , would.
... troduction was a very serviceable work for the perusal , and not above the compre hension of my younger pupils , something on the same plan , but on a rather more enlarged • enlarged scale , with more particular de- scriptions , would.
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Harriet Ventum. enlarged scale , with more particular de- scriptions , would be highly necessary to assist my purpose of instruction with the elder ones . 66 I have therefore commenced this little work , with the hope that it might be ...
Harriet Ventum. enlarged scale , with more particular de- scriptions , would be highly necessary to assist my purpose of instruction with the elder ones . 66 I have therefore commenced this little work , with the hope that it might be ...
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... particular influence upon the tides , which are in- sensibly guided by the Moon . Many of the ancients assert for truth , that by her influence , the bodies of oysters , and other shell - fish , are increased or diminished , and that ...
... particular influence upon the tides , which are in- sensibly guided by the Moon . Many of the ancients assert for truth , that by her influence , the bodies of oysters , and other shell - fish , are increased or diminished , and that ...
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... particular sphere of action . The more we see of nature , my dear children , the more we shall find to admire , to adore , and reverence in its great author , whose attentive care and ever - watchful solicitude for the preservation of ...
... particular sphere of action . The more we see of nature , my dear children , the more we shall find to admire , to adore , and reverence in its great author , whose attentive care and ever - watchful solicitude for the preservation of ...
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... particular ser- vice in strengthening the body after long illness . " The Bark of the Maho tree , which grows in Campeachy and Honduras ( in South America ) has such strong fibres , that it is twisted and made into cordage , " The Bark ...
... particular ser- vice in strengthening the body after long illness . " The Bark of the Maho tree , which grows in Campeachy and Honduras ( in South America ) has such strong fibres , that it is twisted and made into cordage , " The Bark ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 121 - The unwearied sun, from day to day, Does his Creator's power display ; And publishes to every land, The work of an almighty hand. 2 Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale ; And nightly to the listening earth, Repeats the story of her birth : While all the stars which round her...
Página 81 - Sudden, th' impetuous hurricanes descend, Wheel through the air, in circling eddies play, Tear up the sands, and sweep whole plains away. The helpless traveller, with wild surprise Sees the dry desart all around him rise, And, smother'd in the dusty whirlwind, dies.
Página 89 - Thy virtue proves thee truly wise. Pride often guides the author's pen ; Books as affected are as men : But he who studies nature's laws, From certain truth his maxims draws ; And those, without our schools, suffice...
Página 78 - ... of wind, rain, thunder, and lightning, attended with a furious swelling of the seas and sometimes with an earthquake ; in short, with every circumstance which the elements can assemble that is terrible and destructive. First, they see as the prelude to the ensuing havoc, whole fields of sugar canes whirled into the air, and scattered over the face of the country.
Página 102 - ... the Divine command to replenish the earth, to increase and multiply upon it, and to have dominion over the beasts of the forest, the birds of the air, the fish in the waters, and the creeping things of the earth. JAS. 18, 1830.] Mr. Foot's Resolution. ' Si •- ,T! The fourth point of objection is, in the removal of the land records — the natural effect of abolishing all the offices of the Surveyors General.
Página 10 - ... by walking faithfully in the ways of God, we may not leave our repentance to a death bed, or see our starving souls upon the point of expiring for that celestial food, which...
Página 19 - How is it then, my boy, that we do not hear the thunder as soon as we see the lightning?