The Analectic Magazine ...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography, Analytical Abstracts of New Publications, Translations from French Journals, and Selections from the Most Esteemed British Reviews : V. 1-14, 1813-19 : New Ser., V. 1-2, 1820, Volume 11M. Thomas, 1818 |
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... communication to the Linnæan society of New England , by Dr. John Randall . The ex- periments made by him on its medical uses and pharmaceutical prepa- * The quaint appellation of Dr. Tinker's weed , which has been bestowed on this ...
... communication to the Linnæan society of New England , by Dr. John Randall . The ex- periments made by him on its medical uses and pharmaceutical prepa- * The quaint appellation of Dr. Tinker's weed , which has been bestowed on this ...
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... communication with the ocean . Of these means , when Mexico shall break its chain , it will avail itself , and this will become one of the richest and most valuable parts of the United States . ' " I must pronounce the soil to be ...
... communication with the ocean . Of these means , when Mexico shall break its chain , it will avail itself , and this will become one of the richest and most valuable parts of the United States . ' " I must pronounce the soil to be ...
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... communicate information equivalent to the expense of their purchase . For the details we must refer to the works themselves . We collect , generally , that a settlement in the Missouri or the Illinois territory is preferable , cæteris ...
... communicate information equivalent to the expense of their purchase . For the details we must refer to the works themselves . We collect , generally , that a settlement in the Missouri or the Illinois territory is preferable , cæteris ...
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... communication with a great lake within land , hav- ing another outlet of the like nature , into the great western ocean . One circumstance , which they took notice of , gives some weight to this conjecture , viz . , that the stream of ...
... communication with a great lake within land , hav- ing another outlet of the like nature , into the great western ocean . One circumstance , which they took notice of , gives some weight to this conjecture , viz . , that the stream of ...
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... communication , to have sented your readers with such extracts from this journal as might enable them to judge for themselves of the nature and spirit of those doctrines , which are said to have excited so much interest abroad , and to ...
... communication , to have sented your readers with such extracts from this journal as might enable them to judge for themselves of the nature and spirit of those doctrines , which are said to have excited so much interest abroad , and to ...
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Page 67 - And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen; Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord : peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
Page 446 - I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver; and he finished so admirably that I emptied my pocket wholly into the collector's dish, gold and all.
Page 459 - I seldom attended any public worship, I had still an opinion of its propriety, and of its utility when rightly conducted, and I regularly paid my annual subscription for the support of the only Presbyterian minister or meeting we had in Philadelphia.
Page 445 - For instance, my breakfast was a long time bread and milk (no tea), and I ate it out of a twopenny earthen porringer with a pewter spoon.
Page 445 - But mark how luxury will enter families, and make a progress, in spite of principle : being called one morning to breakfast, I found it in a China bowl, with a spoon of silver!
Page 349 - Hamlet is a name: his speeches and sayings but the idle coinage of the poet's brain. What then, are they not real? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is we who are Hamlet.
Page 445 - I am still of opinion that it was a practicable scheme, and might have been very useful, by forming a great number of good citizens; and I was not discouraged by the seeming magnitude of the undertaking, as I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, makes the execution of that same plan his sole study...
Page 421 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Page 447 - His delivery of the latter was so improved by frequent repetition, that every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music.