Evenings at Home, Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened: Consisting of a Variety of Miscellaneous Pieces for the Instruction and Amusement of Young PersonsBaldwin, Cradock, and Joy, and R. Hunter, successor to J. Johnson, 1819 - Children |
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... Animals and Countries 78 86 101 103 Canute's Reproof 104 Adventures of a Cat 107 The little Dog 122 The Masque of Nature 127 On the Martin 131 The Ship Things by their right Names 137 154 Published for the Use of Children and Young ...
... Animals and Countries 78 86 101 103 Canute's Reproof 104 Adventures of a Cat 107 The little Dog 122 The Masque of Nature 127 On the Martin 131 The Ship Things by their right Names 137 154 Published for the Use of Children and Young ...
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... . The hide , then , when taken from the animal , after being steeped in lime and water to get off the hair and grease , is put to soak in a liquor VOL . I. C made by boiling Oak bark in water . This liquor ON THE ÓAK . 13.
... . The hide , then , when taken from the animal , after being steeped in lime and water to get off the hair and grease , is put to soak in a liquor VOL . I. C made by boiling Oak bark in water . This liquor ON THE ÓAK . 13.
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... animals living upon it and then we will walk . See where yon Oak its awful structure rears , The massy growth of twice a hundred years ; Survey his rugged trunk with moss o'ergrown , His lusty arms in rude disorder thrown , His forking ...
... animals living upon it and then we will walk . See where yon Oak its awful structure rears , The massy growth of twice a hundred years ; Survey his rugged trunk with moss o'ergrown , His lusty arms in rude disorder thrown , His forking ...
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... animal among them . This grease they used , too , in almost all their dishes , and when fresh , it really was not unpalatable . They likewise devoured the flesh of many birds and beasts when they could get it ; and ate the leaves and ...
... animal among them . This grease they used , too , in almost all their dishes , and when fresh , it really was not unpalatable . They likewise devoured the flesh of many birds and beasts when they could get it ; and ate the leaves and ...
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... animals , mixed up with powders of various colours and ingre- dients . Like most Indian nations , they use feathers in the head - dress . One thing surprised me much , which was , that they bring up in their houses an animal of the ...
... animals , mixed up with powders of various colours and ingre- dients . Like most Indian nations , they use feathers in the head - dress . One thing surprised me much , which was , that they bring up in their houses an animal of the ...
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Page 152 - And what is a conqueror ? Have not you, too, gone about the earth like an evil genius, blasting the fair fruits of peace and industry ; plundering, ravaging, killing, without law, without justice, merely to gratify an insatiable lust for dominion...
Page 150 - I don't mind it much, for my mammy gives me a pie now and then, and that is as good. Mr. L. Would you not like a knife, to cut sticks ? B. I have one, here it is.
Page 31 - pray what are coals but stones ; and is not butter, grease ; and corn, seeds ; and leather, skins ; and silk, the web of a kind of caterpillar ; and may we not as well call a cat an animal of the tiger kind, as a tiger an animal of the cat kind...
Page 152 - And does not Fame speak of me too ? Was there ever a bolder captain of a more valiant band ? Was there ever — but I scorn to boast.
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Page 153 - But if I have taken like a king, I have given like a king. If I have subverted empires, I have founded greater.