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... fact , am I certain , that mere misgiving is not here flowing from my pen . It may be true that " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien , " As to be hated needs but to be seen : " But we cannot with similar reliance upon the word of a ...
... fact , am I certain , that mere misgiving is not here flowing from my pen . It may be true that " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien , " As to be hated needs but to be seen : " But we cannot with similar reliance upon the word of a ...
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... fact that signets were thus worn , may easily be credited . It is most likely that the poet copied it from nature : and it proves that Ferdosi knew his Persian readers would believe of their remote ancestry , that they had signets , and ...
... fact that signets were thus worn , may easily be credited . It is most likely that the poet copied it from nature : and it proves that Ferdosi knew his Persian readers would believe of their remote ancestry , that they had signets , and ...
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... the present instance was renown- ed for its talismanic virtues , Ferdosi himself pronounces to have been “ a seal . ” + Belzoni , if I rightly remember , adduces evidence of this fact . But the era of the wild and wondrous exploits of 10.
... the present instance was renown- ed for its talismanic virtues , Ferdosi himself pronounces to have been “ a seal . ” + Belzoni , if I rightly remember , adduces evidence of this fact . But the era of the wild and wondrous exploits of 10.
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... fact by fact , and inference by inference , pursue the meaning of these verses in the manner that appears to me the most simple and perspicuous ; at the same time not disregard- ing that impressive opening of the chapter containing them ...
... fact by fact , and inference by inference , pursue the meaning of these verses in the manner that appears to me the most simple and perspicuous ; at the same time not disregard- ing that impressive opening of the chapter containing them ...
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... fact , turn ( on its axis , during the operation of im- pressing it ) toward the clay ; and if it be true , as Volney has asserted , that some of the oriental nations of antiquity believed the earth to be of a cylindrical form , † and ...
... fact , turn ( on its axis , during the operation of im- pressing it ) toward the clay ; and if it be true , as Volney has asserted , that some of the oriental nations of antiquity believed the earth to be of a cylindrical form , † and ...
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Page 78 - Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
Page 13 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?" Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place; That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?
Page 54 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Page 52 - Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
Page 36 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 319 - And there was no Passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a Passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Page 308 - And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven : and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.
Page 69 - Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor worship them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God...
Page x - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.