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... taken at eight a.m. The Rain Gauge is by Casella , and 8 inches in diameter . Its top is 9 feet 2 inches above the ground , and 75 feet above the mean level of the sea . A rainy day is one in which not less than one - hundredth of an ...
... taken at eight a.m. The Rain Gauge is by Casella , and 8 inches in diameter . Its top is 9 feet 2 inches above the ground , and 75 feet above the mean level of the sea . A rainy day is one in which not less than one - hundredth of an ...
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... the top . The wall was clearly designed to have been erected with two stone faces with a space between . This , we presume , was filled in with peat or turf , taken from the neighbouring plain GRIMSPOUND AND ITS ASSOCIATED RELICS . 37.
... the top . The wall was clearly designed to have been erected with two stone faces with a space between . This , we presume , was filled in with peat or turf , taken from the neighbouring plain GRIMSPOUND AND ITS ASSOCIATED RELICS . 37.
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Plymouth athenaeum. with peat or turf , taken from the neighbouring plain . The wall , so completed , would be about ten to twelve feet wide at the base , and from eight to ten feet high , thus making as formidable a barrier of ...
Plymouth athenaeum. with peat or turf , taken from the neighbouring plain . The wall , so completed , would be about ten to twelve feet wide at the base , and from eight to ten feet high , thus making as formidable a barrier of ...
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... taken to be a pile of earth over- grown with grass was a heap of sparkling grey stone , rounded balls , and black glistening sand . " Look here , you Jack , ' says Tom , ' see what a heap of small black stones , sand , and lumber the ...
... taken to be a pile of earth over- grown with grass was a heap of sparkling grey stone , rounded balls , and black glistening sand . " Look here , you Jack , ' says Tom , ' see what a heap of small black stones , sand , and lumber the ...
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... taken out , the rest would stand . " If we turn to the structure of Grimspound , where the wall is ALEXANDER NECHAM , in his Hymns upon Divine Wisdom , writes : " Cornwall from England Tamar's streams divide , Whence with fat salmon all ...
... taken out , the rest would stand . " If we turn to the structure of Grimspound , where the wall is ALEXANDER NECHAM , in his Hymns upon Divine Wisdom , writes : " Cornwall from England Tamar's streams divide , Whence with fat salmon all ...
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Página 292 - They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon. For the builders, every one had his sword girded by his side, and so builded.
Página 433 - Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body as well as in the ' • * individuals, the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection.
Página 326 - When we reflect on this struggle, we may console ourselves with the full belief, that the war of nature is not incessant, that no fear is felt, that death is generally prompt, and that the vigorous, the healthy, and the happy survive and multiply.
Página 430 - ... absolute freedom of opinion and sentiment on all subjects, practical or speculative, scientific, moral, or theological.
Página 442 - O FRIEND ! I know not which way I must look For comfort, being, as I am, opprest, To think that now our life is only drest For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us.
Página 442 - For show ; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook, Or groom ! We must run glittering like a brook In the open sunshine, or we are unblest : The wealthiest man among us is the best : No grandeur now in nature or in book Delights us. Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry ; and these we adore : Plain living and high thinking are no more : The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone ; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws...
Página 432 - Because extremes, as we all know, in every point which relates either to our duties or satisfactions in life, are destructive both to virtue and enjoyment. Liberty too must be limited in order to be possessed.
Página 104 - ... pulpit, words will not easily describe him. His delivery, though unconstrained, was not negligent; and, though forcible, was not turbulent ; disdaining anxious nicety of emphasis and laboured artifice of action, it captivated the hearer by its natural dignity, it roused the sluggish, and fixed the volatile, and detained the mind upon the subject without directing it to the speaker.
Página 43 - And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.
Página 380 - High actions, and high passions best describing: Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democracy, Shook the Arsenal and fulmined over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes...