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... pounds were offered to any one who would betray him , but none were found base enough to do so . He landed safely in France , and died in exile in 1788. War was again commenced against France in 1755 , and a treaty of peace was ...
... pounds were offered to any one who would betray him , but none were found base enough to do so . He landed safely in France , and died in exile in 1788. War was again commenced against France in 1755 , and a treaty of peace was ...
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... pounds of tea , the colonial duty on which was to be paid in the American ports . When the first tea ships arrived in the harbour of Boston , a party of men , disguised as Mohawk Indians , boarded the ships , broke open the chests , and ...
... pounds of tea , the colonial duty on which was to be paid in the American ports . When the first tea ships arrived in the harbour of Boston , a party of men , disguised as Mohawk Indians , boarded the ships , broke open the chests , and ...
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... pounds for a specimen of these insects , and am now willing to give five guineas . In Africa the natives revel in locusts- salted , smoked , roasted , boiled , and fried . They are carried into the towns by waggon - loads , like poultry ...
... pounds for a specimen of these insects , and am now willing to give five guineas . In Africa the natives revel in locusts- salted , smoked , roasted , boiled , and fried . They are carried into the towns by waggon - loads , like poultry ...
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... pound them in stone mortars , and bake them as bread some- times they also stew them with butter . Grasshopper . - There are various kinds of grasshoppers ; one species of which is commonly found in our meadows , and its shrill music ...
... pound them in stone mortars , and bake them as bread some- times they also stew them with butter . Grasshopper . - There are various kinds of grasshoppers ; one species of which is commonly found in our meadows , and its shrill music ...
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... of about 30 inches of mercury , or nearly 15 pounds on every square inch of surface . At the height of 12,000 feet it is only half this density . The density of the air is almost imperceptible beyond 50 miles THE ATMOSPHERE . 251.
... of about 30 inches of mercury , or nearly 15 pounds on every square inch of surface . At the height of 12,000 feet it is only half this density . The density of the air is almost imperceptible beyond 50 miles THE ATMOSPHERE . 251.
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Africa America animals Arctic army Asia Atlantic Australia battle BATTLE OF FONTENOY belong birds Britain British burning called carnivora caused chiefly China civilisation climate cloth coal colonies colour continent cultivated defeated DERIVATION desert died Dr Livingstone earth England English Europe father feet fire flames France French George George III giraffe globe Gulf Stream Gutenberg HANOVER Harry heat hemisphere HOUSE OF HANOVER hundred hundredweights India inhabitants insects Ireland islands kind king labour land lion Lord Lord John Russell MEANING ment metal miles mountain Napoleon native night North o'er ocean ostrich Parliament peace plants Playhour pounds printed quadrupeds regions river round Russia Scotland shillings skin soon South South America species steam-engine stream SUMMARY.-The temperate tion torrid zone trees tribes troops tropical vegetable victory walrus wave winds wood yards
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Page 271 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way...
Page 201 - I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.
Page 110 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Page 201 - Though graced with polished manners and fine sense (Yet wanting sensibility), the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.
Page 271 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost.
Page 124 - Some glossy-leaved, and shining in the sun, The maple, and the beech of oily nuts Prolific, and the lime at dewy eve Diffusing odours ; nor unnoted pass The sycamore, capricious in attire, Now green, now tawny, and ere autumn yet Have changed the woods, in scarlet honours bright.
Page 64 - A heritage, it seems to me, A king might wish to hold in fee.
Page 111 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 124 - No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar...
Page 55 - I will be very frank with you. I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made, and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power.