The American Monthly Magazine and Critical Review, Band 3H. Biglow, Orville Luther Holley H. Biglow, 1818 |
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... America . It cost him nearly four years of unremitted labour : his materials were original ; he collected them with uncommon care , and incurred great expense in obtaining distinct sur- veys of every county in the state . * He had also ...
... America . It cost him nearly four years of unremitted labour : his materials were original ; he collected them with uncommon care , and incurred great expense in obtaining distinct sur- veys of every county in the state . * He had also ...
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... America ; with some Re- marks on the Effects produced on the Nature and Fertility of Soils , by the Decom- position of the Different Classes of Rocks , and an Application to the Fertility of every State of the Union , in reference to ...
... America ; with some Re- marks on the Effects produced on the Nature and Fertility of Soils , by the Decom- position of the Different Classes of Rocks , and an Application to the Fertility of every State of the Union , in reference to ...
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... America is at this time ; —he might have added , that most of them being different from the now liv- ing species , were probably ( as the mam- moth of Siberia was to a certainty ) co- vered with a thick fur suitable to the cli- mates ...
... America is at this time ; —he might have added , that most of them being different from the now liv- ing species , were probably ( as the mam- moth of Siberia was to a certainty ) co- vered with a thick fur suitable to the cli- mates ...
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... America , and those which have to a certainty existed else- where in ancient times , have had more influence on some parts of the soil than he is aware of . He has not mentioned any volcanic soils and rocks in the United States ; yet ...
... America , and those which have to a certainty existed else- where in ancient times , have had more influence on some parts of the soil than he is aware of . He has not mentioned any volcanic soils and rocks in the United States ; yet ...
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... America , when such soils are in their pris- tine state , since , when covered with vege- table and animal manure or mould , their fertility lasts as long as such mould remains . In result it appears that Pennsylvania and New - York ...
... America , when such soils are in their pris- tine state , since , when covered with vege- table and animal manure or mould , their fertility lasts as long as such mould remains . In result it appears that Pennsylvania and New - York ...
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Seite 390 - For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened ; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left : and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt...
Seite 207 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more...
Seite 327 - At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air...
Seite 89 - O'ER the glad waters of the dark blue sea, Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free. Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home ! These are our realms, no limits to their sway — Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. Ours the wild life in tumult still to range From toil to rest, and joy in every change.
Seite 206 - And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence — whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light.
Seite 115 - He fell into a fit of crying the moment he came into the chapel, and flung himself back in a stall, the archbishop hovering over him with a smelling-bottle; but in two minutes his curiosity got the better of his hypocrisy, and he ran about the chapel with his glass to spy who was or was not there, spying with one hand, and mopping his eyes with the other.
Seite 165 - AH ! who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar ; Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star, And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconquerable bar, In life's low vale remote has pined alone, Then dropt into the grave, unpitied and unknown...
Seite 206 - The moon is up, and yet it is not night; Sunset divides the sky with her; a sea Of glory streams along the Alpine height Of blue Friuli's mountains; Heaven is free From clouds, but of all colours seems to be, — Melted to one vast Iris of the West, — Where the Day joins the past Eternity, While, on the other hand, meek Dian's crest Floats through the azure air — an island of the blest!
Seite 115 - Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant: his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it near two hours; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected, too, one of his eyes, and placed...
Seite 403 - ... the free and ingenuous sort of such as evidently were born to study and love learning for itself, not for lucre or any other end but the service of God and of truth, and perhaps that lasting fame and perpetuity of praise which God and good men have consented shall be the reward of those whose published labours advance the good of mankind...