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Page 135
... weight and thickness . These are dragged in their mouths , and sometimes on their shoulders , to the water - side , where they are thrown into the stream , and towed with the current to their dam . Exactly the same materials are ...
... weight and thickness . These are dragged in their mouths , and sometimes on their shoulders , to the water - side , where they are thrown into the stream , and towed with the current to their dam . Exactly the same materials are ...
Page 159
... weight , causing the elegant drooping appearance of those trees . 3. The leaves . - These may be called the breathing organs of trees , that is to say , it is by means of the leaves that trees inhale , or draw in , from the air around ...
... weight , causing the elegant drooping appearance of those trees . 3. The leaves . - These may be called the breathing organs of trees , that is to say , it is by means of the leaves that trees inhale , or draw in , from the air around ...
Page 192
... weight of that metal . John . Does the value of gold ever alter ? Master . Slightly . Gold has been discovered of late in Australia and other places , and great quan- tities have been brought to England from thence ; still for various ...
... weight of that metal . John . Does the value of gold ever alter ? Master . Slightly . Gold has been discovered of late in Australia and other places , and great quan- tities have been brought to England from thence ; still for various ...
Page 222
... in general , it sits upright , resting on the hind - feet , the soles of which are furnished with a hard pad to enable them to bear the weight of the body without inconvenience . In this position , the 222 FOURTH READING BOOK .
... in general , it sits upright , resting on the hind - feet , the soles of which are furnished with a hard pad to enable them to bear the weight of the body without inconvenience . In this position , the 222 FOURTH READING BOOK .
Page 242
... weight on the other end of the bar , you can raise a stone , which you could not stir with your hands alone . This ... weights , though it would be very slowly . We are constantly in the habit of using levers . 242 FOURTH READING BOOK .
... weight on the other end of the bar , you can raise a stone , which you could not stir with your hands alone . This ... weights , though it would be very slowly . We are constantly in the habit of using levers . 242 FOURTH READING BOOK .
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Page 253 - His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man.
Page 27 - For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee ; for I have much people in this city.
Page 40 - For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed ; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
Page 1 - And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.
Page 11 - And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Page 29 - But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus. 10 And this continued by the space of two years ; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
Page 307 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid ; Star of the east, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 278 - If music be the food of love, play on ; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again ! it had a dying fall : O ! it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.
Page 30 - And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.
Page 5 - Then remembered I the word of the Lord, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water ; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.