Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U.S. National Museum During the Year Ending June 30 ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1891 |
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Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U.S. National Museum During ... United States National Museum Visualització completa - 1890 |
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Pàgina 138 - And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut.
Pàgina 12 - America," by Isaac Weld, secretary of the Royal Society] a paragraph concerning Washington, then a small town of 5,000 inhabitants, in which it is predicted that " the Federal city, as soon as navigation is perfected, will increase most rapidly, and that at a future day, if the affairs of the United States go on as rapidly as they have done, it will become the grand emporium of the West, and rival in magnitude and splendor the cities of the whole world.
Pàgina 274 - I never saw any other bird, where the force of its wings appeared (as in a butterfly) so powerful in proportion to the weight of its body. When hovering by a flower, its tail is constantly expanded and shut like a fan, the body being kept in a nearly vertical position.
Pàgina 598 - A description and draught of a new invented Machine for carrying Vessels or Ships out of or into any Harbour, Port, or River, against Wind and Tide, or in a calm, by Jonathan Hulls, 1737, reprint in fac-simile, 12mo, half morocco, reduced to 2s.
Pàgina 574 - ... nothing short of the loss of my life, shall prevent me from visiting their country, and of becoming their historian.
Pàgina 62 - For continuing preservation, exhibition, and increase of collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government...
Pàgina 576 - ... commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings nonexistent to a shortsighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is always the writer who colours highly, or whether it is now and then the reader whose eye for colour is a little dull?
Pàgina 361 - In ascending the angular traps of the spider great care and skill was required; sometimes he had scarcely room for his little wings to perform their office, and the least deviation would have entangled him in the complex machinery of the web, and involved him in ruin. It was only the works of the smaller...
Pàgina 13 - ... of the actual progress of the world in all that pertains to the mental and physical development of the human family, and affording the means of tracing the history of at least every branch of positive science since the days of revival of letters until the present time.* These books, in many cases presents from old European libraries, and not to be obtained by purchase, formed even then one of the best collections of the kind in the world. The danger incurred from the fire...
Pàgina 31 - Blessed art Thou, Lord our God, King of the Universe who has sanctified us with his commandments and commanded us concerning the redemption of the firstborn son.