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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... degree to the ipecacuanha of the shops , and therefore will be no acquisition , until ipecacuanha fails to be supplied . Rhus Vernix . Poison vine . Not useful as a medicine , pos- sessing some of the qualities of a vegetable ink , and ...
... degree to the ipecacuanha of the shops , and therefore will be no acquisition , until ipecacuanha fails to be supplied . Rhus Vernix . Poison vine . Not useful as a medicine , pos- sessing some of the qualities of a vegetable ink , and ...
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... degree . Preparations made from different parts of the herb possessed much less activity , the decoction of the leaves operating only as a diaphoretic , and that of the stalk producing no effect . The late professor Barton of ...
... degree . Preparations made from different parts of the herb possessed much less activity , the decoction of the leaves operating only as a diaphoretic , and that of the stalk producing no effect . The late professor Barton of ...
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... degree , and with a celerity so nearly corresponding with that of the Anglo - Americans , that it has given rise to a belief , both among the Indians and the whites , that bees are their precursors , and that to whatever part they go ...
... degree , and with a celerity so nearly corresponding with that of the Anglo - Americans , that it has given rise to a belief , both among the Indians and the whites , that bees are their precursors , and that to whatever part they go ...
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... degree as in the other new countries . " St Louis , the capital of this territory , is very pleasantly situ- ated on the Mississippi , about eighteen miles below the mouth of the Missouri , in latitude 38 degrees 5 minutes , and ...
... degree as in the other new countries . " St Louis , the capital of this territory , is very pleasantly situ- ated on the Mississippi , about eighteen miles below the mouth of the Missouri , in latitude 38 degrees 5 minutes , and ...
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... degrees of latitude : the species cultivated is Gossypium annuum . It will grow many degrees north of 36 ; but will not yield a sufficient crop , nor is the cotton so good , for the following reasons : -of the pods containing the cotton ...
... degrees of latitude : the species cultivated is Gossypium annuum . It will grow many degrees north of 36 ; but will not yield a sufficient crop , nor is the cotton so good , for the following reasons : -of the pods containing the cotton ...
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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.