Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 57John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1862 - American periodicals |
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... once from the more remote and barbarous period . The more perfect ca- noes were certainly formed with metal tools ; indeed , in some instances , the marks of the heads of the metal nails were still observable on the oak planks . A piece ...
... once from the more remote and barbarous period . The more perfect ca- noes were certainly formed with metal tools ; indeed , in some instances , the marks of the heads of the metal nails were still observable on the oak planks . A piece ...
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... once a bul- wark against the waves and a mark of their advance ; for , being a mass of hard porphyry , it has been able in some meas- ure to withstand the assaults of the ocean , which has worn away the greywacke and shales around ...
... once a bul- wark against the waves and a mark of their advance ; for , being a mass of hard porphyry , it has been able in some meas- ure to withstand the assaults of the ocean , which has worn away the greywacke and shales around ...
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... once intervening between the old castle and the sea , has been demol- ished . Even in the upper reaches of the estuary , above the narrow strait at the Ferries , the waves have removed a con- siderable tract of land which once inter ...
... once intervening between the old castle and the sea , has been demol- ished . Even in the upper reaches of the estuary , above the narrow strait at the Ferries , the waves have removed a con- siderable tract of land which once inter ...
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... Once , for a few minutes , you may be said , while after having ridden fifty miles in the sun , you sip it , to have reached the summit we arrived dead beat at a caravansary , of all mere material enjoyments . Here which had been taken ...
... Once , for a few minutes , you may be said , while after having ridden fifty miles in the sun , you sip it , to have reached the summit we arrived dead beat at a caravansary , of all mere material enjoyments . Here which had been taken ...
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... once heard , could never be forgotten . Full , deep , and ominously near rose the dread- ful sound , waking all the echoes for miles round , yet seeming to come from under his very feet the terrible roar of a hungry lion . Loud as it ...
... once heard , could never be forgotten . Full , deep , and ominously near rose the dread- ful sound , waking all the echoes for miles round , yet seeming to come from under his very feet the terrible roar of a hungry lion . Loud as it ...
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Page 482 - Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
Page 299 - Sirs, why do ye these things ? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, Who made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein : Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Page 529 - She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.
Page 363 - Wish MINE be a cot beside the hill; A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear; A willowy brook that turns a mill, With many a fall shall linger near. The swallow, oft, beneath my thatch Shall twitter from her clay-built nest; Oft shall the pilgrim lift the latch, And share my meal, a welcome guest. Around my ivied porch shall spring Each fragrant flower
Page 359 - There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men : a man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it : this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
Page 238 - ... famille? Que mon fils n'oublie jamais les derniers mots de son père, que je lui répète expressément : Qu'il ne cherche jamais à venger notre mort.
Page 278 - To flinch from modern varnish, coat or flounce, Cry out for togas and the picturesque, Is fatal, — foolish too.
Page 448 - Troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus.
Page 260 - Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God afraid of me: Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit, and the Throne, Yet touched and shamed by ridicule alone.
Page 190 - Platforms supported upon tall piles stand in the middle of the lake, which are approached from the land by a single narrow bridge. At the first the piles which bear up the platforms were fixed in their places by the whole body of the citizens, but since that time the custom...