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... - nut trees is considered a great delicacy in. People feed upon more insects in different parts of the world than is generally supposed . The larva or grub of one of the species of beetles which infest. 60 DINNERS IN MANY LANDS .
... - nut trees is considered a great delicacy in. People feed upon more insects in different parts of the world than is generally supposed . The larva or grub of one of the species of beetles which infest. 60 DINNERS IN MANY LANDS .
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... species of shrub which grows in great quantities in various warm climates . The negroes of the western coast of Africa make ropes and weave nets of the fibrous parts of these leaves . The Hottentots hollow out the 62 DINNERS IN MANY LANDS .
... species of shrub which grows in great quantities in various warm climates . The negroes of the western coast of Africa make ropes and weave nets of the fibrous parts of these leaves . The Hottentots hollow out the 62 DINNERS IN MANY LANDS .
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... species of carnivorous quadrupeds . They generally inhabit caverns and rocky places . Pole - cat , one of the most remarkable species of the weasel tribe . In its habits it greatly resembles other weasels . Sloth , a quadruped of most ...
... species of carnivorous quadrupeds . They generally inhabit caverns and rocky places . Pole - cat , one of the most remarkable species of the weasel tribe . In its habits it greatly resembles other weasels . Sloth , a quadruped of most ...
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... species of which is commonly found in our meadows , and its shrill music may often be heard in the summer . THE HERITAGE . The author of the following poem , James Russell Lowell , was born in Boston in 1819. He is professor of modern ...
... species of which is commonly found in our meadows , and its shrill music may often be heard in the summer . THE HERITAGE . The author of the following poem , James Russell Lowell , was born in Boston in 1819. He is professor of modern ...
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... species , and introducing others to suit his own purposes , so that it is not easy to know which was the original locality of some of the most useful kinds . In treating of the distribution of plants and animals , it is usual to employ ...
... species , and introducing others to suit his own purposes , so that it is not easy to know which was the original locality of some of the most useful kinds . In treating of the distribution of plants and animals , it is usual to employ ...
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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.