Virginia Literary Museum and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, &c, Volumen1,Temas1-43University of Virginia, 1829 |
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... Natural Phenomena . Such a Reposi - eight or more Professors , who were daily tory is much wanted . The information , which now lies scattered among individuals , if collect- ed , would shed great light on the past history and present ...
... Natural Phenomena . Such a Reposi - eight or more Professors , who were daily tory is much wanted . The information , which now lies scattered among individuals , if collect- ed , would shed great light on the past history and present ...
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... natural that many attempts should be made The compound which he used was the to produce this most precious of gems , by carburet of sulphur , or sulphuret of car- artificial means . The project presented bon , a transparent colourless ...
... natural that many attempts should be made The compound which he used was the to produce this most precious of gems , by carburet of sulphur , or sulphuret of car- artificial means . The project presented bon , a transparent colourless ...
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... nature and the power of enduring a red heat , without any very apparent loss of substance , have long ren- dered Amianthus celebrated among miner- als . All its names are in allusion to these properties or their applications to useful ...
... nature and the power of enduring a red heat , without any very apparent loss of substance , have long ren- dered Amianthus celebrated among miner- als . All its names are in allusion to these properties or their applications to useful ...
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... nature which is essential to the ed all sizing . So , also , it might appear highest order of beauty . Allow me now , highly important to possess an incombusti- Messrs . Editors , to give you two or three ble paper upon which could be ...
... nature which is essential to the ed all sizing . So , also , it might appear highest order of beauty . Allow me now , highly important to possess an incombusti- Messrs . Editors , to give you two or three ble paper upon which could be ...
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... natural desire of defending that prerogative which was transmitted to him from his ancestors , and which his parlia ... nature of K ARISTARCHUS . JEFFERSONIANA . " That the letter of the law , as much as the most flaming court sermon ...
... natural desire of defending that prerogative which was transmitted to him from his ancestors , and which his parlia ... nature of K ARISTARCHUS . JEFFERSONIANA . " That the letter of the law , as much as the most flaming court sermon ...
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Página 421 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence ? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
Página 188 - The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.
Página 205 - THESE, as they change, ALMIGHTY FATHER, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of THEE. Forth in the pleasing Spring THY beauty walks, THY tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Página 424 - But turn out of the way a little, good scholar ! towards yonder high honey-suckle hedge ; there we'll sit and sing, whilst this shower falls so gently upon the teeming earth, and gives yet a sweeter smell to the lovely flowers that adorn these verdant meadows.
Página 179 - All charges of war and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states in proportion to the value of all land within each state, granted to or surveyed for any person, as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon...
Página 179 - That the condition of the laboring poor in most countries, that of the fishermen particularly of the Northern states, is as abject as that of slaves. It is the number of laborers which produces the surplus for taxation, and numbers, therefore, indiscriminately, are the fair index of wealth ; that it is the use of the word
Página 160 - I attended the debate, however, at the door of the lobby of the House of Burgesses, and heard the splendid display of Mr. Henry's talents as a popular orator. They were great indeed; such as I have never heard from any other man. He appeared to me to speak as Homer wrote.
Página 179 - The ten labourers add as much wealth annually to the state, increase its exports as much, in the one case as the other. Certainly five hundred freemen produce no more profits, no greater surplus for the payment of taxes, than five hundred slaves. Therefore the state in which are the laborers called freemen, should be taxed no more than that in which are those called slaves.
Página 472 - That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law.
Página 225 - The legislative, executive, and judiciary departments shall be separate and distinct, so that neither exercise the powers properly belonging to the other...