Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
When casting around for topics, to which the attention of my readers may be solicited, they sometimes start up in almost every quarter; and the principal difficulty arises in the task of selection. It is, however, altogether probable, that like the young lady, who after disreg...
The attention of the Emperors and Mandarins to the cultivation of the land is so great, that when deputies arrive at court from the Vice-Roys, the Chinese monarch never forgets...
5. Part 5The usual rate at which whales swim, even when they are on their passage from one situation to another, seldom exceeds four miles an hour; and though when urged by the sight of...
4. Part 4Lord Monboddo maintains that speech is not natural to man, and that the want of it is no proof that the Ourang-Outang is not of the same species, as that animal only wants the _...
3. Part 3"It struck me, that, if a machine were made with eight legs, four only of which should stand upon the ground at one time; if the remaining four were raised up into the body of t...
1. Part 1When casting around for topics, to which the attention of my readers may be solicited, they sometimes start up in almost every quarter; and the principal difficulty arises in th...
6. Part 6_Scissors._--A very valuable improvement has been made on Scissors. It is especially so to those employed for delicate operations in surgery. The objection to the common scissor...
7. Part 7Wanton drole, whose harmless play Beguiles the rustic's closing day, When drawn the evening fire about, Sit aged Crone and thoughtless Lout, And child upon his three-foot stool,...