The Rhode Island Educational Magazine, Band 2Elisha Reynolds Potter Sayles & Miller, 1854 |
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... QUARTZ is the only mineral found every- where . It forms a considerable part of all the highest moun- tains in the world , is the principal element of soils , composes nearly all the pebbles upon shores and in banks of gravel and sand ...
... QUARTZ is the only mineral found every- where . It forms a considerable part of all the highest moun- tains in the world , is the principal element of soils , composes nearly all the pebbles upon shores and in banks of gravel and sand ...
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... quartz , and is extensively com- bined with it , in rocks , mountains , soils , & c . When pulverized , or decomposed , it forms clay , as pulverized quartz does sand . The two , combined , are the principal and essential ingredients of ...
... quartz , and is extensively com- bined with it , in rocks , mountains , soils , & c . When pulverized , or decomposed , it forms clay , as pulverized quartz does sand . The two , combined , are the principal and essential ingredients of ...
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... quartz and mica . Felspar , composing a part of granite and gneiss , is wanting in this rock . It frequently has an undula- ting surface , but is smooth . It splits readily , and is used for purposes similar to those of gneiss . Garnets ...
... quartz and mica . Felspar , composing a part of granite and gneiss , is wanting in this rock . It frequently has an undula- ting surface , but is smooth . It splits readily , and is used for purposes similar to those of gneiss . Garnets ...
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... quartz are sometimes confounded ; but they may be easily distinguished by the knife , as the former can be cut , and the latter not and more certainly by an acid , as the former effervesces and the latter not . No. 15. - GYPSUM is the ...
... quartz are sometimes confounded ; but they may be easily distinguished by the knife , as the former can be cut , and the latter not and more certainly by an acid , as the former effervesces and the latter not . No. 15. - GYPSUM is the ...
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Seite 185 - It came upon the midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From angels bending near the earth, To touch their harps of gold : "Peace on the earth, goodwill to men, From heaven's all-gracious King!
Seite 132 - The rod and reproof give wisdom : but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
Seite 180 - God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Seite 185 - Still through the cloven skies they come, With peaceful wings unfurled, And still their heavenly music floats O'er all the weary world. Above its sad and lowly plains They bend on heavenly wing, And ever o'er its Babel sounds The blessed angels sing.
Seite 124 - When Abraham sat at his tent door, according to his custom, waiting to entertain strangers, he espied an old man, stooping and leaning on his staff, weary with age and travel, coming towards him, who was an hundred years of age. He received him kindly, washed his feet, provided supper, caused him to sit down; but observing that the old man...
Seite 124 - The old man told him that he worshipped the fire only, and acknowledged no other god. At which answer Abraham grew so zealously angry, that he thrust the old man out of his tent, and exposed him to all the evils of the night, and an unguarded condition. When the old man was gone, God called to Abraham, and asked him where the stranger was : he replied, I thrust him away because he did not worship thee.
Seite 161 - I am, not wholly so, Since quickened by thy breath; 0, lead me, wheresoe'er I go, — Through this day's life or death. This day be bread and peace my lot; All else beneath the sun Thou know'st if best bestowed or not, And let thy will be done.
Seite 161 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Seite 30 - ... virtues to preserve and perfect a republican constitution, and secure the blessings of liberty as well as to promote their future happiness, and also to point out to them the evil tendency of the opposite vices.
Seite 168 - It would be hard to estimate the amount of gentleness and mercy that has made its way among us through these slight channels. Forbearance, courtesy, consideration for the poor and aged, kind treatment of animals, the love of nature, abhorrence of tyranny and brute force—many such good things have been first nourished in the child's heart by this powerful aid.