The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine, Volume 11Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew 1838 - American periodicals |
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... nature , that all fluids possess strong aggregating properties ; or in other words , powerful propensities to accumulate in large masses or bodies . This fact is so familiar in the element of water , as well as in the extensive col ...
... nature , that all fluids possess strong aggregating properties ; or in other words , powerful propensities to accumulate in large masses or bodies . This fact is so familiar in the element of water , as well as in the extensive col ...
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... nature and properties of the bodies themselves . I deem it proper to remark in this place , as it goes far in my mind to corroborate the hypothesis I have assumed , and at the same time is in itself a circumstance not a little ...
... nature and properties of the bodies themselves . I deem it proper to remark in this place , as it goes far in my mind to corroborate the hypothesis I have assumed , and at the same time is in itself a circumstance not a little ...
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... natural consequence ; and being constantly kept in motion by currents of air , they soon magnify to an unknown extent of ... nature to keep up a general equilibrium in all her movements , are pretty well understood . These efforts in ...
... natural consequence ; and being constantly kept in motion by currents of air , they soon magnify to an unknown extent of ... nature to keep up a general equilibrium in all her movements , are pretty well understood . These efforts in ...
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... Nature , in her visible works , doth far Surpass them all . And this so glorious world , Man's heritage and home is . Gift abused ! Fortune unmerited ! How like a god's Might be his bearing here ! Or , nobler thought ! How much of angel ...
... Nature , in her visible works , doth far Surpass them all . And this so glorious world , Man's heritage and home is . Gift abused ! Fortune unmerited ! How like a god's Might be his bearing here ! Or , nobler thought ! How much of angel ...
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... nature . This is a picturesque spot , romantic enough to please even you ; and I ardently hope , one day , to enjoy its beauties in your company . In the evening , several young people , provided with note - books , congregate at our ...
... nature . This is a picturesque spot , romantic enough to please even you ; and I ardently hope , one day , to enjoy its beauties in your company . In the evening , several young people , provided with note - books , congregate at our ...
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Page 60 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf ning clamors in the slippery clouds...
Page 396 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Page 117 - I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury ; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
Page 213 - So many mermaids, tended her i' the eyes, And made their bends adornings ; at the helm A seeming mermaid steers ; the silken tackle Swell with the touches of those flower-soft hands, That yarely frame the office. From the barge A strange invisible perfume hits the sense Of the adjacent wharfs. The city cast Her people out upon her, and Antony, Enthron'd i...
Page 561 - ... suckled and nursed them; she has, not without difficulty and sorrow, fed them up to manhood, and even trained them to crafts, so that one can weave, another build, another hammer, and the weakest can stand under thirty stone avoirdupois. Nevertheless, amid much weeping and swearing, they are selected; all dressed in red; and shipped away, at the public charges, some two thousand miles, or say only to the south of Spain; and fed there till wanted.
Page 213 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed, that The winds were love-sick with them...
Page 514 - The auburn nut that held thee, swallowing down Thy yet close-folded latitude of boughs, And all thine embryo vastness, at a gulp. But Fate thy growth decreed: autumnal rains Beneath thy parent tree mellow'd the soil Design'd thy cradle, and a skipping deer, With pointed hoof dibbling the glebe, prepar'd The soft receptacle, in which, secure, Thy rudiments should sleep the winter through.
Page 229 - And unto this he frames his song; Then will he fit his tongue To dialogues of business, love, or strife; But it will not be long Ere this be thrown aside, And with new joy and pride The little actor cons another part; Filling from time to time his 'humorous stage...
Page 398 - And is there care in Heaven ? and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is...
Page 110 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.