The new American cyclopædia, ed. by G. Ripley and C.A. Dana, المجلد 8 |
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... sometimes of great length , found on sandy beaches and plains , penetrating in some instances 50 feet or more beneath the surface , and dividing into several branches . Beudant describes fulgurites under the mineral species quartz , by ...
... sometimes of great length , found on sandy beaches and plains , penetrating in some instances 50 feet or more beneath the surface , and dividing into several branches . Beudant describes fulgurites under the mineral species quartz , by ...
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... sometimes reduced to a mere trace of evanescent , floccose growth ; while the re- productive body becomes a fleshy mass , several pounds in weight . But the spores are always mi- nute , being sometimes only of an inch in di- ameter ...
... sometimes reduced to a mere trace of evanescent , floccose growth ; while the re- productive body becomes a fleshy mass , several pounds in weight . But the spores are always mi- nute , being sometimes only of an inch in di- ameter ...
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... sometimes employed in cases of protracted labor . Several others have been used in times past like the cordyceps Sinensis , a sphærioid species par- asitic on a caterpillar ; but these are now thought to be of no value . The lycoperdons ...
... sometimes employed in cases of protracted labor . Several others have been used in times past like the cordyceps Sinensis , a sphærioid species par- asitic on a caterpillar ; but these are now thought to be of no value . The lycoperdons ...
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... sometimes obsolete , sometimes contained in a perithecium . This order differs from the last in having scarcely any filamentous growth , and in having the spores produced in the utmost profusion , greatly disproportion- ate to the rest ...
... sometimes obsolete , sometimes contained in a perithecium . This order differs from the last in having scarcely any filamentous growth , and in having the spores produced in the utmost profusion , greatly disproportion- ate to the rest ...
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... sometimes 1,000 guineas . The best skins are obtained in Yakootsk , Kamtchatka , and Rus- sian Lapland . Only about 25,000 are annually procured , and but few of them reach the Eng- lish market . Some are brought every year by Jewish ...
... sometimes 1,000 guineas . The best skins are obtained in Yakootsk , Kamtchatka , and Rus- sian Lapland . Only about 25,000 are annually procured , and but few of them reach the Eng- lish market . Some are brought every year by Jewish ...
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الصفحة 241 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a; prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
الصفحة 239 - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed.
الصفحة 68 - Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, ye cannot overthrow it; lest haply ye be found even to fight against God.
الصفحة 268 - Imagine now the centre of such a continent, occupied through nearly its whole extent by a deep unbroken sea of ice, that gathers perennial increase from the water-shed of vast snow-covered mountains, and all the precipitations of the atmosphere upon its own surface. Imagine this moving onward like a great glacial river, seeking outlets at every fiord and valley, rolling icy cataracts into the Atlantic and Greenland seas ; and, having at last reached the northern limit of the land that has borne it...
الصفحة 174 - the most extraordinary compound of talent, wit, buffoonery, obstinacy, and good feeling — in short, a medley of the most opposite qualities, with a great preponderance of good — that I ever saw in any character in my life.
الصفحة 245 - William Slade, of Vermont, joined to the presentation of some abolitionist petitions the motion that they should be referred to an extraordinary committee, with instructions to bring in a bill for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia.
الصفحة 334 - I am fond of people, and that every one feels directly — young and old. I pass without pretension through the world, and that gratifies men. I never bemoralise any one — always seek out the good that is in them, and leave what is bad to him who made mankind, and knows how to round off the angles. In this way I make myself happy and comfortable.
الصفحة 142 - Smith (?'), they be made good cheap in this kingdom ; for whosoever studieth the laws of the realm, who studieth in the universities, who professeth the liberal sciences, and, (to be short,) who can live idly, and without manual labour, and will bear the port, charge, and countenance of a gentleman, he shall be called master, and shall be taken for a gentleman.
الصفحة 107 - He was a member of the convention to revise the constitution of Pennsylvania, in 1789, and for two succeeding years he was representative of the State legislature.
الصفحة 90 - Some time afterward, it was reported to me by the city officers that they had ferreted out the paper and its editor ; that his office was an obscure hole, his only visible auxiliary a negro boy, and his supporters a few very insignificant persons of all colors,