The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 9J. Limbird, 1827 Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc. |
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... earth , ( a mere atom in the immensity of creation ) , we are naturally led to look upward , and contemplate with feelings of awe and reverence the works of that Being in whom there is no change , and gaze with admiration on the wonders ...
... earth , ( a mere atom in the immensity of creation ) , we are naturally led to look upward , and contemplate with feelings of awe and reverence the works of that Being in whom there is no change , and gaze with admiration on the wonders ...
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... earth , saying , e pur si muove , " it moves notwithstanding . " The Sketch - Book . No. XXVIII . A CHRISTMAS PARTY . BY MISS MITFORD . THE wedding of Jacob Frost and Hester Hewitt , commemorated in my last , * took place on a Monday ...
... earth , saying , e pur si muove , " it moves notwithstanding . " The Sketch - Book . No. XXVIII . A CHRISTMAS PARTY . BY MISS MITFORD . THE wedding of Jacob Frost and Hester Hewitt , commemorated in my last , * took place on a Monday ...
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... earth with an early foretaste of spring ! However , let us not deceive ourselves ; our text is true , and we must truly tell of it , and of what is not . Perhaps the greatest difficulty we have to master is to adhere to our text . The ...
... earth with an early foretaste of spring ! However , let us not deceive ourselves ; our text is true , and we must truly tell of it , and of what is not . Perhaps the greatest difficulty we have to master is to adhere to our text . The ...
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the earth is covered with broad flakes of snow , the forest harmony is hushed , and the pelting showers of sleet and hail , the howling of the sweeping storm , the rush- ing of wild torrents , whose rapid floodings the fetters of winter ...
the earth is covered with broad flakes of snow , the forest harmony is hushed , and the pelting showers of sleet and hail , the howling of the sweeping storm , the rush- ing of wild torrents , whose rapid floodings the fetters of winter ...
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... earth productive cheers the eye again . To return to our subject . - Freezing may be defined the fixing a fluid body into a firm mass by the action of cold- but although we are fully sensible of its effects , ( even to our very fingers ...
... earth productive cheers the eye again . To return to our subject . - Freezing may be defined the fixing a fluid body into a firm mass by the action of cold- but although we are fully sensible of its effects , ( even to our very fingers ...
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