The Young Man's Evening Book: Embracing Sketches and Anecdotes in Natural History, Incidents of Travel, Biographical Sketches, Poetical Selections, and Other Subjects Suited to Interest and Instruct the Mind |
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Page 11
... four satellites , or attendant moons , of Jupiter , revealed themselves for the first time to the human eye . Other stars unseen before met him in every quarter of the heavens to which he turned . Saturn showed his singular encompassing ...
... four satellites , or attendant moons , of Jupiter , revealed themselves for the first time to the human eye . Other stars unseen before met him in every quarter of the heavens to which he turned . Saturn showed his singular encompassing ...
Page 15
... four legged stool , near one end of it . While in this attitude he appears engaged in prayer , holding in his hand a number of beads , and having his eyes half- closed . As soon as the exhibition , which usually continues only a few ...
... four legged stool , near one end of it . While in this attitude he appears engaged in prayer , holding in his hand a number of beads , and having his eyes half- closed . As soon as the exhibition , which usually continues only a few ...
Page 17
... four inches in circum- ference , and two feet in length . The man then con- cealed himself in a large shawl , with these three articles and a large bag ; after a delay of five min- utes , during which he appeared very busy under the ...
... four inches in circum- ference , and two feet in length . The man then con- cealed himself in a large shawl , with these three articles and a large bag ; after a delay of five min- utes , during which he appeared very busy under the ...
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... four feet broad , and weighing as much as eight hundred pounds . Dam- pier says , " I heard of a monstrous green turtle once taken at Port Royal , in the bay of Campeachy that was four feet deep from the back to the belly and the belly ...
... four feet broad , and weighing as much as eight hundred pounds . Dam- pier says , " I heard of a monstrous green turtle once taken at Port Royal , in the bay of Campeachy that was four feet deep from the back to the belly and the belly ...
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... four or five species , with some varieties , but they are all of them foreign birds , and belong only to the warm climates of America . They are mostly about the size of a small turkey , and are generally distinguish- ed by a crest of ...
... four or five species , with some varieties , but they are all of them foreign birds , and belong only to the warm climates of America . They are mostly about the size of a small turkey , and are generally distinguish- ed by a crest of ...
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Page 50 - There's a dance of leaves in that aspen bower, There's a titter of winds in that beechen tree, There's a smile on the fruit and a smile on the flower, And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea.
Page 104 - Beyond the flight of time, Beyond the reign of death, There surely is some blessed clime Where life is not a breath, Nor life's affections transient fire, Whose sparks fly upward and expire.
Page 230 - A thousand miles from land are we, Tossing about on the roaring sea , From billow to bounding billow cast, Like fleecy snow on the stormy blast : The sails are scattered abroad, like weeds, The strong masts shake, like quivering reeds, The mighty cables, and iron chains, The hull, which all earthly strength disdains, They strain and they crack, and hearts like stone Their natural hard proud strength disown. Up and down ! up and down ! From...
Page 294 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend. This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 50 - There are notes of joy from the hang-bird and wren, And the gossip of swallows through all the sky; The ground-squirrel gaily chirps by his den, And the wilding bee hums merrily by.
Page 99 - That very law* which moulds a tear, And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.
Page 144 - Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3. Never spend your money before you have it. 4. Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap ; it will be dear to you.
Page 230 - And amidst the flashing and feathery foam The Stormy Petrel finds a home : A home, if such a place may be For her who lives on the wide, wide sea, On the craggy ice, in the frozen air, And only seeketh her rocky lair To warm her young and to teach them spring At once o'er the waves on their stormy wing.
Page 214 - Humboldt calculates that as thirty-three pounds of wheat and ninety-nine pounds of potatoes require the same space as that in which four thousand pounds of bananas...
Page 142 - We walked out together, and followed the rocky margins of the Kentucky River, until we reached a piece of flat land thickly covered with black walnuts, oaks and hickories. As the general mast was a good one that year, Squirrels were seen gamboling on every tree around us. My companion, a stout, hale, and athletic man, dressed in a homespun hunting-shirt, bare-legged and moccasined, carried a long and heavy rifle...