Merry's Museum, Volumes 3-4I.C. & J.N. Stearns, 1843 - New York (N.Y.) |
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... brought his family with him , among whom was a widowed daughter with an only child- a fine boy of four years old . You will recollect that the country around was an unbroken forest , and that this was the domain of the savage tribes ...
... brought his family with him , among whom was a widowed daughter with an only child- a fine boy of four years old . You will recollect that the country around was an unbroken forest , and that this was the domain of the savage tribes ...
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... brought off in triumph to Santaro . In fine , the Araucanians gained a complete victory . Of the Eu- ropeans and their Indian allies , three thousand were left dead upon the field , and Villegran himself narrowly escaped being taken ...
... brought off in triumph to Santaro . In fine , the Araucanians gained a complete victory . Of the Eu- ropeans and their Indian allies , three thousand were left dead upon the field , and Villegran himself narrowly escaped being taken ...
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... brought from Malta for the consul . Not to be thus eluded , the aga sent one of his people to examine the contents . The messenger tasted the beer and found it abominably bitter , and as a sample of the eatables , he carried a potato ...
... brought from Malta for the consul . Not to be thus eluded , the aga sent one of his people to examine the contents . The messenger tasted the beer and found it abominably bitter , and as a sample of the eatables , he carried a potato ...
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... brought his mate with him . And the farmer , together with his children , rejoiced greatly , when they saw the two little animals , as they looked with their clear , small eyes , confidently round . And the children said , " The birds ...
... brought his mate with him . And the farmer , together with his children , rejoiced greatly , when they saw the two little animals , as they looked with their clear , small eyes , confidently round . And the children said , " The birds ...
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... hand , with which she got behind him , and dealt him a blow that brought him to the ground . Immediately the others seized him by the feet , and dragged him away , and then the Indian men , rushing to. INDIANS OF AMERICA . 41.
... hand , with which she got behind him , and dealt him a blow that brought him to the ground . Immediately the others seized him by the feet , and dragged him away , and then the Indian men , rushing to. INDIANS OF AMERICA . 41.
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Page 46 - Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper. Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? May I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.
Page 107 - He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. The shady trees cover him with their shadow ; the willows of the brook compass him about.
Page 45 - And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.
Page 135 - And now, if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me : and if not, tell me ; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.
Page 93 - Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied ; and overhead up grew Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm, A sylvan scene, and as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Page 136 - For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us ? And the servant had said, It is my master : therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
Page 187 - And nimbly catch the incautious flies. The glowworms, numerous and bright, Illumed the dewy dell last night. At dusk the squalid toad was seen. Hopping and crawling o'er the green : The whirling wind, the dust obeys, And in the rapid eddy plays ; The frog has changed his yellow vest, And in a russet coat is dressed.
Page 126 - And I, even I Artaxerxes the king, do make a decree to all the treasurers which are beyond the river, that whatsoever Ezra the priest, the scribe of the law of the God of heaven...
Page 45 - And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.
Page 46 - So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha. And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean. But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.