The Family Magazine, Or, General Abstract of Useful Knowledge, Volume 2Redfield & Lindsay, 1835 |
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... says thus : When all men were of one language , some of them built a high tower , as if they would thereby ascend up to heaven , but the gods sent storms of wind and over - government over them , as if they were a people derived from ...
... says thus : When all men were of one language , some of them built a high tower , as if they would thereby ascend up to heaven , but the gods sent storms of wind and over - government over them , as if they were a people derived from ...
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... says , from the situation of Birs Nimrood , on the western plain , and the chain of buildingremains intersected by patches of verdure , which connect the bank of the river from beyond Anana with that extraordinary pile , the sketch of ...
... says , from the situation of Birs Nimrood , on the western plain , and the chain of buildingremains intersected by patches of verdure , which connect the bank of the river from beyond Anana with that extraordinary pile , the sketch of ...
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... says , the names of these horses are , Erythreus or the Red , Acteon or the Bright , Lampos the Resplendent , and Philogous the Lover of the Earth . The first name , Erythreus , is taken from the ring of the sun , when his rays are of a ...
... says , the names of these horses are , Erythreus or the Red , Acteon or the Bright , Lampos the Resplendent , and Philogous the Lover of the Earth . The first name , Erythreus , is taken from the ring of the sun , when his rays are of a ...
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... says the Rev. Vicar General of the London district , " there was hardly any famous place of devotion in Europe which was not visited by this servant of God . " To follow Labre's other goings to and fro would be tedious suffice it to say ...
... says the Rev. Vicar General of the London district , " there was hardly any famous place of devotion in Europe which was not visited by this servant of God . " To follow Labre's other goings to and fro would be tedious suffice it to say ...
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... says that the city of Hierapolis , which is the present Aleppo , was anciently called by another name ; and Pliny tells us what that name was : " The Syrians , " says he , " called it Magog . " Tarshish , Kittim , and Elishah were ...
... says that the city of Hierapolis , which is the present Aleppo , was anciently called by another name ; and Pliny tells us what that name was : " The Syrians , " says he , " called it Magog . " Tarshish , Kittim , and Elishah were ...
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Page 215 - Reading maketh. a full man: conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 239 - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, That lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, A beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in their graves ; The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, With the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, But the cold November rain Calls not, from out the gloomy earth, The lovely ones again.
Page 97 - And he said, thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel : for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Page 89 - And yet indeed she is my sister ; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife.
Page 97 - But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
Page 9 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth ; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Page 239 - Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone from upland, glade, and glen. And now when comes the calm mild day — as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home ; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them...
Page 64 - STRANGER, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen Enough of all its sorrows, crimes, and cares, To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the haunts of Nature.
Page 26 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Page 215 - ... the head ; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers