The Analectic Magazine ...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography, Analytical Abstracts of New Publications, Translations from French Journals, and Selections from the Most Esteemed British ReviewsM. Thomas, 1813 |
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Page 363
... buffalo : the body of the prisoner is burnt , and the offering is completed . This shocking and barbarous custom is quite at variance with the usual practice of Indians on the Mis- souri . With most nations a prisoner is safe in their ...
... buffalo : the body of the prisoner is burnt , and the offering is completed . This shocking and barbarous custom is quite at variance with the usual practice of Indians on the Mis- souri . With most nations a prisoner is safe in their ...
Page 364
... buffalo skin over him , and ordered his wife to lead the horse to the lodge of her lover ; when he came out he told him to take his wife , his horse , and his buffalo skin ; he gave them all to him . Such instances of generosity are ...
... buffalo skin over him , and ordered his wife to lead the horse to the lodge of her lover ; when he came out he told him to take his wife , his horse , and his buffalo skin ; he gave them all to him . Such instances of generosity are ...
Page 366
... buffalo hides , sewed together ; and , when stretched on poles , have a conical figure , with a diameter of about fifteen feet at the base , and an aperture at the top , to permit the escape of the smoke , they are carried on their win ...
... buffalo hides , sewed together ; and , when stretched on poles , have a conical figure , with a diameter of about fifteen feet at the base , and an aperture at the top , to permit the escape of the smoke , they are carried on their win ...
Page 370
... buffalo on which they had calculated to subsist , were abund- ant , and the man who could see , might have found and shot them ; but the blind men begged him not to strain his eyes for that purpose ; they would rather suffer hunger ...
... buffalo on which they had calculated to subsist , were abund- ant , and the man who could see , might have found and shot them ; but the blind men begged him not to strain his eyes for that purpose ; they would rather suffer hunger ...
Page 372
... buffalo . They re- main during the summer at this hunt , carefully preserving and jerking all the meat they do not use . The furs at that season are not valuable ; the skins however they dress , and use in ma- king their leathern lodges ...
... buffalo . They re- main during the summer at this hunt , carefully preserving and jerking all the meat they do not use . The furs at that season are not valuable ; the skins however they dress , and use in ma- king their leathern lodges ...
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Page 274 - When I read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together.
Page 80 - Clouds slumbering at his feet, and the clear blue Of Summer's sky, in beauty bending o'er him, — The city bright below; and far away, Sparkling in golden light, his own romantic bay. Tall spire, and glittering roof, and battlement, And banners floating in the sunny air ; And white sails o'er the calm blue waters bent, Green isle and circling shore, are blended there, In wild reality. When life is old, And many a scene forgot, the heart will hold Its memory of this...
Page 41 - While the earth remaineth, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.
Page 79 - WEEHAWKEN ! in thy mountain scenery yet, All we adore of Nature, in her wild And frolic hour of infancy, is met ; And never has a summer's morning smiled Upon a lovelier scene, than the full eye Of the enthusiast revels on — when high, Amid thy forest solitudes, he climbs O'er crags that proudly tower above the deep, And knows that sense of danger, which sublimes The breathless moment — when his daring step Is on the verge of the cliff, and...
Page 253 - ON NATURAL PHILOSOPHY ; In which the Elements of that Science are familiarly explained, and adapted to the comprehension of Young Persons.
Page 133 - The present is an endeavour to render an abridgment of the same into English, by which I expect to prove to my European friends, that the superstitious practices which deform the Hindu religion have nothing to do with the pure spirit of its dictates!
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Page 492 - it was not ; it was born three and twenty years and some months after me ; and, if you are satisfied to listen to a dull historian, you shall have the history of its nativity. " When I was at the Temple, a few of us formed a little debating club — poor Apjohn, and Duhigg,* and the rest of them! they have...
Page 133 - In order, therefore, to vindicate my own faith and that of our early forefathers,' I have been endeavouring, for some time past, to convince my countrymen of the true meaning of our sacred books; and to prove, that my aberration deserves not the opprobrium which some unreflecting persons have been so ready to throw upon me.