Scientific Tracts and Family Lyceum: Designed for Instruction and Entertainment, and Adapted to Schools, Lyceums and Families, Band 1Allen & Ticknor, 1834 |
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... lectures which are given before Ly- ceums , it is very important to present numerous diagrams , in order to give the ... lecture , can best make the pictures he stands in need of . The practice of a few days , does wonders for a person ...
... lectures which are given before Ly- ceums , it is very important to present numerous diagrams , in order to give the ... lecture , can best make the pictures he stands in need of . The practice of a few days , does wonders for a person ...
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... LECTURES . - If this is rightly denominated the mechani- cal age , it is no less a lecturing era . This is as it ... lecture pre- sents the results of his inquiries to the host of auditors . Never was a system devised , more happily ...
... LECTURES . - If this is rightly denominated the mechani- cal age , it is no less a lecturing era . This is as it ... lecture pre- sents the results of his inquiries to the host of auditors . Never was a system devised , more happily ...
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... Lecture before this popular institution was delivered by George S. Hillard , Esq . on Ancient and Modern Literature . It was listened to by a crowded audience with profound attention and deep interest ; and although it was perhaps ...
... Lecture before this popular institution was delivered by George S. Hillard , Esq . on Ancient and Modern Literature . It was listened to by a crowded audience with profound attention and deep interest ; and although it was perhaps ...
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... lectures , by members of the Ly- ceum , are now in the course of delivery before the Society . The subjects are , Anatomy ... lecture is suspended to give place to a public debate or some other change of exercises . Nor is this infant ...
... lectures , by members of the Ly- ceum , are now in the course of delivery before the Society . The subjects are , Anatomy ... lecture is suspended to give place to a public debate or some other change of exercises . Nor is this infant ...
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... mechanical powers , which a few years since were only occasionally seen in the college lecture room , may be bought for a few dollars . Pneumatic apparatus , which , by the way , is all - important AND FAMILY LYCEUM . 65.
... mechanical powers , which a few years since were only occasionally seen in the college lecture room , may be bought for a few dollars . Pneumatic apparatus , which , by the way , is all - important AND FAMILY LYCEUM . 65.
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 334 - Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind: His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Seite 102 - Since this work was printed off, I have seen a substance excellently adapted to the purpose of wiping from paper the marks of a black-lead pencil.
Seite 292 - There with its waving blade of green. The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter: There with a light and easy motion, The fan-coral Sweeps through the clear deep sea; And the yellow and scarlet tufts of ocean Are bending like corn on the upland lea: And life, in rare and beautiful forms.
Seite 296 - Beyond the shadow of the ship, I watched the water-snakes : They moved in tracks of shining white, And when they reared, the elfish light Fell off in hoary flakes. Within the shadow of the ship I watched their rich attire; Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled and swam; and every track Was a flash of golden fire.
Seite 90 - Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Seite 362 - Dec. 16, 1714; educated at Oxford University; ordained 1736. In a ministry of thirty-four years, he crossed the Atlantic thirteen times, and preached more than 18,000 sermons...
Seite 89 - Here is the finest air to live upon in the universe ; and if our trees and birds could speak, and our assemblymen be silent, the finest conversation too.
Seite 148 - ... of our northern manufactures and this city. And why may we not look forward to the time when there shall be such a communication between this city and New York, Philadelphia, and Washington ? I dare not presume to predict such an event for some time to come ; and yet when we daily witness the extraordinary resources of this growing country — when we observe the wonderful results of an active and intelligent population incessantly occupied in developing their powers and resources — and stimulated,...
Seite 306 - Turnips and carrots are thought indigenous roots of France. Our cauliflowers came from Cyprus ; our artichokes from Sicily ; lettuce from Cos, a name corrupted into gause, shallots, or eschallots from Ascalon.
Seite 228 - In this engagement three men and a boy were killed, one boy was taken prisoner, and Miss Allen was wounded in the head and left for dead, but not scalped. In endeavoring to make her escape she was pursued by an Indian with an uplifted tomahawk and a gun. She was extremely active, and would have outran him, had he not fired upon her. The ball missed her, but she supposed that it had struck her, and in her fright, she fell.