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... leaves , spreads over a considerable space . The part of each leaf that is near to the stalk , serves as a kind of gutter to collect the rain and dew , which are deposited in a small cavity between the leaf and the stalk . After a week ...
... leaves , spreads over a considerable space . The part of each leaf that is near to the stalk , serves as a kind of gutter to collect the rain and dew , which are deposited in a small cavity between the leaf and the stalk . After a week ...
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... leaves , and the covering pulled off the corn itself , afford , when stacked , excellent fodder for horses and cattle : horses indeed always prefer it to hay . The large stalks look like bamboo ; and being very brittle , and full of a ...
... leaves , and the covering pulled off the corn itself , afford , when stacked , excellent fodder for horses and cattle : horses indeed always prefer it to hay . The large stalks look like bamboo ; and being very brittle , and full of a ...
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... leaves of vegetables , & c . being allowed to remain in it . The large division nearest the river , is appropriated to the sale of fish , which must be brought alive , or is otherwise condemned by the inspectors . The rest of the market ...
... leaves of vegetables , & c . being allowed to remain in it . The large division nearest the river , is appropriated to the sale of fish , which must be brought alive , or is otherwise condemned by the inspectors . The rest of the market ...
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... leaving off the dress of their forefathers , although they still adhere to their tenets . Wherever the Quakers exist , they are always the foremost in works of benevolence . They never , indeed , make any parade of their good ...
... leaving off the dress of their forefathers , although they still adhere to their tenets . Wherever the Quakers exist , they are always the foremost in works of benevolence . They never , indeed , make any parade of their good ...
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... leave Philadel phia , which I liked better and better every day ; but my object was to travel , and not to remain long stationary in any place , however agreeable . Accordingly I set off in the steam - boat for Bal- timore . The ...
... leave Philadel phia , which I liked better and better every day ; but my object was to travel , and not to remain long stationary in any place , however agreeable . Accordingly I set off in the steam - boat for Bal- timore . The ...
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Page 401 - Horribly beautiful ! but on the verge, From side to side, beneath the glittering morn, An Iris sits, amidst the infernal surge, Like Hope upon a death.bed, and, unworn Its steady dyes, while all around is torn By the distracted waters, bears serene Its brilliant hues with all their beams unshorn : Resembling, 'mid the torture of the scene, Love watching Madness with unalterable mien.
Page 474 - Lord assisting our endeavors ; it is therefore ordered that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read, whose wages shall be paid either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants in general, by way of supply, as the major part of those that order the prudentials of the town shall appoint...
Page 206 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 421 - BROTHER : Listen to what we say. There was a time when our forefathers owned this great island. Their seats extended from the rising to the setting sun. The Great Spirit had made it for the use of Indians.
Page 469 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page 233 - THEY also are to be had accursed that presume to say, That every man shall be saved by the Law or Sect which he professeth, so that he be diligent to frame his life according to that Law, and the light of Nature. For Holy Scripture doth set out unto us only the Name of Jesus Christ, whereby men must be saved.
Page 483 - Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. Give a loose to them, they will support the true religion by bringing every false one to their tribunal, to the test of their investigation.
Page 482 - That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences...
Page 468 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold ; that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen surface of the south. Falkland...
Page 422 - Brother: Continue to listen. You say that you are sent to instruct us how to worship the Great Spirit agreeably to his mind; and, if we do not take hold of the religion which you white people teach, we shall be unhappy hereafter. You say that you are right and we are lost. How do we know this to be true?