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... River : the tide ascends nearly to its extremity , 20 miles above Charlotte Town . Farther west are Halifax Bay and ... River , near its con- fluence with the rivers Elliot and York . The harbour is considered one of the best in the Gulf ...
... River : the tide ascends nearly to its extremity , 20 miles above Charlotte Town . Farther west are Halifax Bay and ... River , near its con- fluence with the rivers Elliot and York . The harbour is considered one of the best in the Gulf ...
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... river Moselle is the highest part of the table - land , which appears in the shape of a range elevated on a very high base . Part of this range is called the Hochwald , and another part the Soonwald : its mean elevation is more than ...
... river Moselle is the highest part of the table - land , which appears in the shape of a range elevated on a very high base . Part of this range is called the Hochwald , and another part the Soonwald : its mean elevation is more than ...
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... river Oder with a gentle slope , but rapidly towards the south . On the north - western edge of this plain the southern extre- mity of the Sudetes commences with the mountain- plain of Glatz , which is surrounded by elevated ranges . It ...
... river Oder with a gentle slope , but rapidly towards the south . On the north - western edge of this plain the southern extre- mity of the Sudetes commences with the mountain- plain of Glatz , which is surrounded by elevated ranges . It ...
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... river bottoms . Berlin lies in a sandy desert , which contains only small isolated tracts of fertile ground ; and this sterile country , in some parts overgrown with fine forests , extends northward to the boundary - line of Mecklenburg ...
... river bottoms . Berlin lies in a sandy desert , which contains only small isolated tracts of fertile ground ; and this sterile country , in some parts overgrown with fine forests , extends northward to the boundary - line of Mecklenburg ...
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... rivers , below Mulgo'ey on the former river , and in the long meadow near the Nepean river . They are shy , and not easily approached . The flesh of the young ones is accounted good eating . I have heard from the na- tives that it makes ...
... rivers , below Mulgo'ey on the former river , and in the long meadow near the Nepean river . They are shy , and not easily approached . The flesh of the young ones is accounted good eating . I have heard from the na- tives that it makes ...
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Page 127 - Nature confessed some atonement to be necessary : the gospel discovers that the necessary atonement is made." 2. When several semicolons have preceded, and a still greater pause is necessary, in order to mark the connecting or concluding sentiment: as, " A divine legislator, uttering his voice from heaven ; an almighty governor, stretching forth his arm to punish or reward ; informing us of perpetual rest prepared hereafter for the righteous, and of indignation and wrath awaiting the wicked : these...
Page 48 - And the Lord said unto Moses, See, I have, made thee a god to Pharaoh : and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.
Page 6 - The third I now design to suppress. Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady, that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits, as have to do with her.
Page 126 - I shall here define it to be a conceit arising from the use of two words that agree in the sound, but differ in the sense. The only way therefore to try a piece of wit, is to translate it into a different language. If it bears the test, you may pronounce it true ; but if it vanishes in the experiment, you may conclude it to have been a pun.
Page 278 - World, implying a second and third volume, which I also intended, and have hewn out ; besides many other discouragements persuading my silence, it hath pleased God to take that glorious prince out of the world to whom they were directed...
Page 126 - I went to one of the windows which opened to the area below, where all the several voices lost their distinction, and rose up in a confused humming; which created in me a reflection that could not come into the mind of any but of one a little too studious; for I said to myself, with a kind of pun in thought, What nonsense is all the hurry of this world to those who are above, it?
Page 224 - Actius, who lived at the end of the fifth and the beginning of the sixth centuries, repeats the recommendations of Oribasius.
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Page 24 - Table hath of late times assumed unto itself a power to intermeddle in civil causes and matters only of private interest between party and party, and have adventured to determine of the estates and liberties of the subject contrary to the law of the land and the rights and privileges of the subject...