The Popular Science Monthly, Volume 40D. Appleton, 1892 - Science |
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... Italian painter , but he found it diffi- cult to persuade people even to taste the fruit ( Felt's Annals of Salem , vol . ii , p . 631 ) . It was said to have been introduced into Philadelphia by a French refugee from Santo Domingo in ...
... Italian painter , but he found it diffi- cult to persuade people even to taste the fruit ( Felt's Annals of Salem , vol . ii , p . 631 ) . It was said to have been introduced into Philadelphia by a French refugee from Santo Domingo in ...
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... Italian avenue , was as much of a true tree as an oak or a chest- nut . But as one mounts toward the bare and wind - swept mount- ain heights one finds that the willows begin to grow downward gradually . The " netted willow " of the ...
... Italian avenue , was as much of a true tree as an oak or a chest- nut . But as one mounts toward the bare and wind - swept mount- ain heights one finds that the willows begin to grow downward gradually . The " netted willow " of the ...
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... Italy , by the Brothers Cattaneo , under the editorial direction of Prof. A. Ghisleri . It is a popular journal ... Italians in America , as that on New Orleans and the Italian Emigration , and one by Elisée Reclus on the Delta of the ...
... Italy , by the Brothers Cattaneo , under the editorial direction of Prof. A. Ghisleri . It is a popular journal ... Italians in America , as that on New Orleans and the Italian Emigration , and one by Elisée Reclus on the Delta of the ...
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... Italy . The cone has either been blown to pieces and scattered by violent eruptions , or has been allowed to sink down by the withdrawal of lava from beneath its founda- tions . In either case , a great basin , often holding a lake ...
... Italy . The cone has either been blown to pieces and scattered by violent eruptions , or has been allowed to sink down by the withdrawal of lava from beneath its founda- tions . In either case , a great basin , often holding a lake ...
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... Italy kets . Besides woolen carpets , rugs are ex- the number of grains or protuberances must ported , woven entirely of silk . The weaving be counted one by one before the witch of such rugs is done in the same way as the can do evil ...
... Italy kets . Besides woolen carpets , rugs are ex- the number of grains or protuberances must ported , woven entirely of silk . The weaving be counted one by one before the witch of such rugs is done in the same way as the can do evil ...
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Page 443 - The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.
Page 205 - And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
Page 438 - No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseised, or outlawed, or banished, or any ways destroyed, nor will we pass upon him, nor will we send upon him, unless by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 205 - And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Page 52 - Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
Page 455 - States, and dedicated and set apart as a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people...
Page 587 - ... wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth.
Page 205 - And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin ; and it shall be a token of the covenant betwixt me and you...
Page 435 - The liberty mentioned in that amendment means not only the right of the citizen to be free from the mere physical restraint of his person, as by incarceration, but the term is deemed to embrace the right of the citizen to be free in the enjoyment of all his faculties; to be free to use them in all lawful ways ; to live and work where he will ; to earn his livelihood by any lawful calling ; to pursue any livelihood or avocation, and for that purpose to enter into all contracts which may be proper,...
Page 203 - Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue: and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them...