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Pagina 4
... feet and were excavated at an expense of three hundred thousand to half a million of dollars , before anything was realized . No shaft on Lake Superior has as yet been sunk to a greater depth than one hundred feet . It is remarkable ...
... feet and were excavated at an expense of three hundred thousand to half a million of dollars , before anything was realized . No shaft on Lake Superior has as yet been sunk to a greater depth than one hundred feet . It is remarkable ...
Pagina 24
... feet high . The sides of one that I saw in Tane's marae at Maeva were not more than a foot in diameter ; but many were much larger . In some of the islands these instruments were very curiously carved . One which I brought from High ...
... feet high . The sides of one that I saw in Tane's marae at Maeva were not more than a foot in diameter ; but many were much larger . In some of the islands these instruments were very curiously carved . One which I brought from High ...
Pagina 25
... feet wide , they are nearly circular , are made of clay and thatched with the palm leaf ; they are elevated above the ground so as to secure the inmates from the annoyance of ants , snakes and the wet ground , and even for protection ...
... feet wide , they are nearly circular , are made of clay and thatched with the palm leaf ; they are elevated above the ground so as to secure the inmates from the annoyance of ants , snakes and the wet ground , and even for protection ...
Pagina 26
... feet long was dug and filled with water . Two pits were also dug at a little distance beyond the ends of the trench , and in each of these was buried a copper plate , having a surface of about two feet by eighteen inches . To these ...
... feet long was dug and filled with water . Two pits were also dug at a little distance beyond the ends of the trench , and in each of these was buried a copper plate , having a surface of about two feet by eighteen inches . To these ...
Pagina 29
... feet high . When a termes has built one inch or four times its height , it is equivalent to twenty - four feet , or four times the height of a man . One inch of the termes ' building be- ing proportionate to twenty - four feet of hu ...
... feet high . When a termes has built one inch or four times its height , it is equivalent to twenty - four feet , or four times the height of a man . One inch of the termes ' building be- ing proportionate to twenty - four feet of hu ...
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Pagina 118 - As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.
Pagina 450 - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Pagina 165 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Pagina 119 - I should like to be buried there ; and let me beg of you, as you value your old friend, not to suffer any pomp to be used at my funeral ; nor any monument, nor monumental inscription whatsoever, to mark where I am laid : but lay me quietly in the earth, place a sun-dial over my grave, and let me be forgotten.
Pagina 209 - Is this a. fast to keep The larder lean, And clean From fat of veals and sheep ? Is it to quit the dish Of flesh, yet still To fill The platter high with fish...
Pagina 512 - By day its voice is low and light ; But in the silent dead of night, Distinct as a passing footstep's fall, It echoes along the vacant hall. Along the ceiling, along the floor, And seems to say, at each chamber-door— " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " Through days of sorrow and of mirth.
Pagina 347 - Lonely, I no longer roam, Like the cloud, the wind, the wave ; Where you dwell, shall be my home, Where you die, shall be my grave...
Pagina 595 - And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the LORD : and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Pagina 218 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim, with daisies pied ; Shallow brooks, and rivers wide ; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighbouring eyes.
Pagina 356 - Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and there came a lion and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock. And I went out after him and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth; and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard and smote him and slew him.