The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 1Francis S. Wiggins, 1831 |
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... Mountain · 116 Gentleness ib . Death of Columbus Memory of the Past 366 Love , a Mother's 367 Microscope , the 368 Milton , sketch of · 274 M 210 382 Music 272 P TIONS . Address on the Beatitudes 39 . Maternal Instructions Palmyra ...
... Mountain · 116 Gentleness ib . Death of Columbus Memory of the Past 366 Love , a Mother's 367 Microscope , the 368 Milton , sketch of · 274 M 210 382 Music 272 P TIONS . Address on the Beatitudes 39 . Maternal Instructions Palmyra ...
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... mountains upon its surface . He says , that in August , 1792 , he examined the Sun with telescopes of several powers , from ninety to five hundred , and it evi- dently appeared that the dark spots are the opaque ground , or body of the ...
... mountains upon its surface . He says , that in August , 1792 , he examined the Sun with telescopes of several powers , from ninety to five hundred , and it evi- dently appeared that the dark spots are the opaque ground , or body of the ...
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... mountain , by which , according to an ancient tra- dition current among them , they should be kept floating above the waters of a general inundation ; and as they apprehend an earthquake will produce this flood , and the waters rise as ...
... mountain , by which , according to an ancient tra- dition current among them , they should be kept floating above the waters of a general inundation ; and as they apprehend an earthquake will produce this flood , and the waters rise as ...
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... mountain of Armenia . By this event the earth is supposed to have undergone considerable al- terations ; the spoils of the sea , such as the bones of fish , & c . which are frequently found on the tops of mountains and in the midst of ...
... mountain of Armenia . By this event the earth is supposed to have undergone considerable al- terations ; the spoils of the sea , such as the bones of fish , & c . which are frequently found on the tops of mountains and in the midst of ...
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... mountain in Arabia Petrea , near the Red Sea , and about two hundred and sixty miles east of Cairo . The third period of sacred history commences with the going out of the Israelites from Egypt , and extends to the time of the kings , a ...
... mountain in Arabia Petrea , near the Red Sea , and about two hundred and sixty miles east of Cairo . The third period of sacred history commences with the going out of the Israelites from Egypt , and extends to the time of the kings , a ...
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