Instructive Extracts, Comprising Religious and Moral Instruction, Natural History, Elementary Science, Accounts of Remarkable Persons, Places [etc.]: With a Selection of Passages from the British Poets [etc.]Oliver & Boyd, 1843 |
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... greater hour , when they shall see their Creator as he is , -when they shall know , even as also they are known . Original . ON THE CREATION OF THE WORLD . BEFORE the sun and the moon had begun their course , before the sound of the ...
... greater hour , when they shall see their Creator as he is , -when they shall know , even as also they are known . Original . ON THE CREATION OF THE WORLD . BEFORE the sun and the moon had begun their course , before the sound of the ...
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... greater degree of curiosity and interest , and of urging the mind to a more vigorous exertion of its faculties and powers , than any other mode of instruction . There is something for the understanding to work upon ; and , when the ...
... greater degree of curiosity and interest , and of urging the mind to a more vigorous exertion of its faculties and powers , than any other mode of instruction . There is something for the understanding to work upon ; and , when the ...
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... greater weight and authority with it , than the most ingenious fiction . - These circumstances give a decided superiority to our Lord's parables over the fables of the ancients ; and , if we compare them with those of the Koran , the ...
... greater weight and authority with it , than the most ingenious fiction . - These circumstances give a decided superiority to our Lord's parables over the fables of the ancients ; and , if we compare them with those of the Koran , the ...
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... greater room for the olfactory nerves , as in dogs , who are to hunt and find out their prey by the scent . In others it is short and thick , as in the lion , to increase the strength of the jaw , and to fit it the bet- ter for combat ...
... greater room for the olfactory nerves , as in dogs , who are to hunt and find out their prey by the scent . In others it is short and thick , as in the lion , to increase the strength of the jaw , and to fit it the bet- ter for combat ...
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... greater nourishment than in our tem- perate climate , several animals , that with us have four stomachs , have there but two . Goldsmith . ON THE ADAPTATION OF ANIMALS TO THEIR RESPEC- TIVE CONDITIONS - CONTINUED . ALL animals are ...
... greater nourishment than in our tem- perate climate , several animals , that with us have four stomachs , have there but two . Goldsmith . ON THE ADAPTATION OF ANIMALS TO THEIR RESPEC- TIVE CONDITIONS - CONTINUED . ALL animals are ...
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Page 233 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself. And the people of the Prince, that shall come, shall destroy the city and the sanctuary : and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Page 233 - BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me : and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple; even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in; behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 230 - And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
Page 282 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 324 - GREAT God, what do I see and hear! The end of things created ! The Judge of mankind doth appear On clouds of glory seated ! The trumpet sounds ; the graves restore The dead which they contained before ; Prepare, my soul, to meet Him...
Page 282 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 324 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day...
Page 296 - AT the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove...
Page 234 - But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Page 231 - The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come ; And unto him shall the gathering of the people be.