The Popular Science Monthly, 45. köideD. Appleton, 1894 |
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... practical fisherman extends back to 1816 , makes the following interesting statement : " The great changes in our fisheries have been caused by the bluefish . . . . When they first appeared in our bay I was living at Long Point ...
... practical fisherman extends back to 1816 , makes the following interesting statement : " The great changes in our fisheries have been caused by the bluefish . . . . When they first appeared in our bay I was living at Long Point ...
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... practical test made before an audience which will further illustrate how diffi- cult it is to determine whence a sound comes . A gentleman took his seat in a chair upon the platform and was blindfolded . Another party held a snapper ...
... practical test made before an audience which will further illustrate how diffi- cult it is to determine whence a sound comes . A gentleman took his seat in a chair upon the platform and was blindfolded . Another party held a snapper ...
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an idea occurred to the postmaster , who was of a practical turn of mind , and he asked the lady to step out to the door a moment . Opening the door at which she entered , he let it close again , when citt , that insulting sound again ...
an idea occurred to the postmaster , who was of a practical turn of mind , and he asked the lady to step out to the door a moment . Opening the door at which she entered , he let it close again , when citt , that insulting sound again ...
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... practical workings of this crude and clannish conception of patriotism are recorded , as Mr. Wallace observes , on the pages of Byzantine annalists and old Russian chroniclers , who describe the periodical havoc of farmsteads committed ...
... practical workings of this crude and clannish conception of patriotism are recorded , as Mr. Wallace observes , on the pages of Byzantine annalists and old Russian chroniclers , who describe the periodical havoc of farmsteads committed ...
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... practical or theoretical , subsisted after the fall of ancient civilization , and how the traditions of the shop main- tained those industries , almost without new inventions , but at least at a certain level of perfection . The history ...
... practical or theoretical , subsisted after the fall of ancient civilization , and how the traditions of the shop main- tained those industries , almost without new inventions , but at least at a certain level of perfection . The history ...
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Popular passages
Page 636 - And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Page 407 - None knew him but to love him, None named him but to praise.
Page 361 - ... the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened. She immediately rips open that you offer...
Page 638 - It is indifferent for judges and magistrates ; for if they be facile and corrupt, you shall have a servant five times worse than a wife.
Page 361 - There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the small-pox; they make parties for this purpose, and when they are met (commonly fifteen or sixteen together), the old woman comes with a nut-shell full of the matter of the best sort of small-pox, and asks what vein you please to have opened.
Page 633 - I cannot blame him : at my nativity The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, Of burning cressets ; and at my birth The frame and huge foundation of the earth Shaked like a coward.
Page 636 - I'm truly sorry man's dominion. Has broken nature's social union, An' justifies that ill opinion, Which makes thee startle At me, thy poor earth-born companion, An...
Page 576 - WHEN I was sick and lay a-bed, I had two pillows at my head, And all my toys beside me lay To keep me happy all the day. And sometimes for an hour or so I watched my leaden soldiers go, With different uniforms and drills, Among the bed-clothes, through the hills. And sometimes sent my ships in fleets All up and down among the sheets; Or brought my trees and houses out, And planted cities all about.
Page 361 - The smallpox, so fatal and so general amongst us, is here entirely harmless by the invention of ingrafting, which is the term they give it. There is a set of old women who make it their business to perform the operation every autumn, in the month of September, when the great heat is abated. People send to one another to know if any of their family has a mind to have the smallpox...
Page 819 - Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.