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Page 130 - And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse : and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in arid dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
Page 174 - With many a weary step, and many a groan, Up the high hill he heaves a huge round stone; The huge round stone resulting with a bound, Thunders impetuous down, and smokes along the ground.
Page 61 - Tables for the purchasing and renewing of leases, for terms of years certain and for lives, with rules for determining the value of the reversion of estates after any such leases ; and for the solution of other useful problems ; adapted for general use.
Page 193 - The amazing herds of buffaloes which resort thither, by their size and number, fill the traveler with amazement and terror, especially when he beholds the prodigious roads they have made from all quarters, as if leading to some populous city; the vast space of land around these springs desolated as if by a ravaging enemy, and hills reduced to plains...
Page 107 - there is at present but one turnpike road on the continent, which is between Lancaster and Philadelphia, a distance of sixty-six miles, and is a masterpiece of its kind; it is paved with stone the whole way, and overlaid with gravel, so that it is never obstructed during the most severe season.
Page 414 - There we met with good fare, but very poor accommodations for lodgings ; three or four beds of the roughest construction in one room, which was open at all hours of the night for the reception of any rude rabble that had a mind to put up at the house ; and if the other beds happened to be occupied, you might be surprised when you awoke in the morning to find a bed-fellow by your side whom you had never seen before, and perhaps might never see again. All complaint is unnecessary, for you are immediately...
Page 282 - The inhabitants of the district of Natchez, who under the belief and persuasion that they were citizens of the United States, agreeably to the late treaty, have assembled and embodied themselves, are not to be prosecuted or injured for their conduct on that account; but to stand exonerated and acquitted.
Page 65 - New Tables for facilitating the Computation of Precession, Aberration, and Nutation of 2881 Principal Fixed Stars, together with a Catalogue of the same, reduced to January 1, 1830. Computed at the Expense and under the Direction of the Astronomical Society of London. To which is prefixed an lutroduction, explanatory of their Construction aud Application. By Francis Baily, Esq.
Page 217 - ... they are a race which delight much to live on the frontiers, where they can enjoy undisturbed, and free from the control of any laws, the blessings which nature has bestowed upon them.
Page 128 - I think when they shall be built; for now they appear like broad avenues in a park, bounded on each side by thick woods; and there being so many of them, and proceeding in so many directions, they have a certain wild, yet uniform and regular appearance, which they will lose when confined on each side by brick walls".