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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... leaves such deep and lasting impressions upon the soul . - Lastly , the Greek and Roman fables are most of them founded on impro- bable or impossible circumstances , and are supposed conversations between animate or inanimate beings ...
... leaves such deep and lasting impressions upon the soul . - Lastly , the Greek and Roman fables are most of them founded on impro- bable or impossible circumstances , and are supposed conversations between animate or inanimate beings ...
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... leaves them behind ; but they keep on with a con- stant steady pace , and excite each other by a general spirit of industry and emulation , till at last they share the common plunder . But it too often happens , that the larger beasts ...
... leaves them behind ; but they keep on with a con- stant steady pace , and excite each other by a general spirit of industry and emulation , till at last they share the common plunder . But it too often happens , that the larger beasts ...
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... leaf , and , having found the unfortunate object of her search , insert her sting into its flesh , and there de- posit an egg . In vain her victim , as if conscious of its fate , writhes its body , spits out an acid fluid , and brings ...
... leaf , and , having found the unfortunate object of her search , insert her sting into its flesh , and there de- posit an egg . In vain her victim , as if conscious of its fate , writhes its body , spits out an acid fluid , and brings ...
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... leaves it , aware that it would not suf- fice for the support of two , and proceeds in search of some other yet unoccupied . The process is of course varied in the case of those minute species , of which se- veral , sometimes as many as ...
... leaves it , aware that it would not suf- fice for the support of two , and proceeds in search of some other yet unoccupied . The process is of course varied in the case of those minute species , of which se- veral , sometimes as many as ...
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... leaves of some shrub or plant , it is obvious that , round its whole extent , will be required lines , to which can be attached those ends of the radii , that are farthest from the centre . Ac- cordingly , the construction of these ...
... leaves of some shrub or plant , it is obvious that , round its whole extent , will be required lines , to which can be attached those ends of the radii , that are farthest from the centre . Ac- cordingly , the construction of these ...
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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.