Mental Improvement: Or, The Beauties and Wonders of Nature and Art. In a Series of Instructive ConversationsHarvey and Darton, Gracechurch-Street, 1828 - 243 páginas |
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... persons at sea to know the course they are pursuing . It principally consists of a needle of iron , impregnated with the mag- netic powers of the loadstone , which in- fluence it always to point nearly to the north : thus , by being ...
... persons at sea to know the course they are pursuing . It principally consists of a needle of iron , impregnated with the mag- netic powers of the loadstone , which in- fluence it always to point nearly to the north : thus , by being ...
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... a different manner ; they are long - shaped , having only room for one person in width , and seven or eight in length , and show but little of the wood above • the water . Those accustomed to row them are B 3 MENTAL IMPROVEMENT . 5.
... a different manner ; they are long - shaped , having only room for one person in width , and seven or eight in length , and show but little of the wood above • the water . Those accustomed to row them are B 3 MENTAL IMPROVEMENT . 5.
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... person whose mind has been enriched by the cultiva- tion of science ; but there can exist no instance of ignorance being preferable to knowledge . The intellectual powers of a savage , though capable of receiving the same impressions as ...
... person whose mind has been enriched by the cultiva- tion of science ; but there can exist no instance of ignorance being preferable to knowledge . The intellectual powers of a savage , though capable of receiving the same impressions as ...
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... persons in long voyages are very subject . Beef and pork , well salted down , with hard biscuit , form the usual food of a sailor . AUGUSTA . I cannot eat either salt meat or hard biscuit . What would become of me , were I obliged to go ...
... persons in long voyages are very subject . Beef and pork , well salted down , with hard biscuit , form the usual food of a sailor . AUGUSTA . I cannot eat either salt meat or hard biscuit . What would become of me , were I obliged to go ...
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... persons . MRS . HARCOURT . Fresh water is often far more precious than the richest wines , on board a ship . The poor men have frequently been obliged to be limited to a certain quantity of it a day . True riches consist in a ...
... persons . MRS . HARCOURT . Fresh water is often far more precious than the richest wines , on board a ship . The poor men have frequently been obliged to be limited to a certain quantity of it a day . True riches consist in a ...
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Página 136 - Come on, sir; here's the place: stand still. How fearful And dizzy 'tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs that wing the midway air Show scarce so gross as beetles: halfway down Hangs one that gathers samphire, dreadful trade! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head...
Página 136 - Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire ; dreadful trade ! Methinks he seems no bigger than his head. The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice ; and yon' tall, anchoring bark, Diminished to her cock ; her cock, a buoy Almost too small for sight.
Página 37 - The tea leaves, being gathered, are cured in houses which contain from five to ten or twenty small furnaces, about three feet high, each having at the top a large, flat, iron pan. There is also a long, low table, covered with mats, on which the leaves are laid, and rolled by workmen, who sit round it. The iron pan being heated to a certain degree by a little fire made in the furnace underneath, a few pounds of the...
Página 156 - He was a very merops apiaster, or bee-bird, and very injurious to men that kept bees; for he would slide into their bee-gardens, and, sitting down before the stools, would rap with his finger on the hives, and so take the bees as they came out. He has been known to overturn hives for the sake of honey, of which he was passionately fond.
Página 133 - They have besides a small line fastened to the body of the adventurer, by which he gives signals that they may lower or raise him, or shift him from place to place. The last operation is attended with great danger, by the...
Página 80 - Has roll'da mighty world, or shin'da sun : Stupendous thought ! how sinks all human race ! A point, an atom in the field of space ! Yet ev'n to us, O LORD, thy care extends, Thy bounty feeds us, and thy pow'r defends ; Yet...
Página 38 - ... of their hands in one direction, while others are fanning them, that they may cool the more speedily, and retain their curl the longer.
Página 38 - ... are fanning them, that they may cool the more speedily, and retain their curl the longer. This process is repeated two or three times, or oftener, before the tea is put into the stores, in order that all the moisture of the leaves may be thoroughly dissipated, and their curl more completely preserved.
Página 181 - ... in that identical spot, whether it be in* a tree or in the crevice of a rock, or, as is most commonly the case, in the earth.