Mental Improvement: Or, The Beauties and Wonders of Nature and Art. In a Series of Instructive ConversationsHarvey and Darton, Gracechurch-Street, 1828 - 243 pagina's |
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Pagina 21
... live in all seas ; and flat - bottomed vessels , which go both by oars and sails , such as boats , barges , wherries , & c . HENRY . You mentioned a rudder , just now . I do not know what it is . MR . HARCOURT . The rudder is a piece of ...
... live in all seas ; and flat - bottomed vessels , which go both by oars and sails , such as boats , barges , wherries , & c . HENRY . You mentioned a rudder , just now . I do not know what it is . MR . HARCOURT . The rudder is a piece of ...
Pagina 24
... live on fresh meat ; neither can they procure fresh vegetables , which , with the want of fresh water , are the principal causes of that dreadful disease , called the sea- scurvy , to which persons in long voyages are very subject ...
... live on fresh meat ; neither can they procure fresh vegetables , which , with the want of fresh water , are the principal causes of that dreadful disease , called the sea- scurvy , to which persons in long voyages are very subject ...
Pagina 70
... live , to advance the magnifying powers to a height at once truly astonishing . Our cotem- porary , Dr. Herschel , made surprising pro- gress in celestial geography , if I may be allow- ed the expression , by means of his Newtonian ...
... live , to advance the magnifying powers to a height at once truly astonishing . Our cotem- porary , Dr. Herschel , made surprising pro- gress in celestial geography , if I may be allow- ed the expression , by means of his Newtonian ...
Pagina 79
... live according to his precepts . MR . HARCOURT . The perverseness of men's dispositions , and the limited faculties we pos- sess whilst in our present state , will ever raise cavillers against the most clear conviction ; but let us shut ...
... live according to his precepts . MR . HARCOURT . The perverseness of men's dispositions , and the limited faculties we pos- sess whilst in our present state , will ever raise cavillers against the most clear conviction ; but let us shut ...
Pagina 89
... more expeditiously , but better , by frequent repetition . CHARLES . How few accommodations can a man possess who lives in a state of solitude ! He must be totally incapable of bringing any thing to I 3 . MENTAL IMPROVEMENT . 89.
... more expeditiously , but better , by frequent repetition . CHARLES . How few accommodations can a man possess who lives in a state of solitude ! He must be totally incapable of bringing any thing to I 3 . MENTAL IMPROVEMENT . 89.
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Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.