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... hand of his unknown father , he tore open his mail , and showed the seal which his mother had placed on his arm , when she revealed to him the secret of his birth , and bade him seek his father , " The sight of his own signet , ( says ...
... hand of his unknown father , he tore open his mail , and showed the seal which his mother had placed on his arm , when she revealed to him the secret of his birth , and bade him seek his father , " The sight of his own signet , ( says ...
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... hand incurvated the flying serpent " and the creative and presiding power of Jehovah , that is asserted and displayed in it ; are not fully manifested , as the passage has commonly been explained . - Not that more is meant than meets ...
... hand incurvated the flying serpent " and the creative and presiding power of Jehovah , that is asserted and displayed in it ; are not fully manifested , as the passage has commonly been explained . - Not that more is meant than meets ...
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... hand , and in- trusted to Haman for the purpose : and when this proclamation was re- versed , the king again took off his ring which he had taken from Haman , and gave it unto Mordecai . * This particular signet of the Persian monarch ...
... hand , and in- trusted to Haman for the purpose : and when this proclamation was re- versed , the king again took off his ring which he had taken from Haman , and gave it unto Mordecai . * This particular signet of the Persian monarch ...
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... hand : this ( also ) were an iniquity to be punished by the Judge ; for I should have denied the God that is above . " * And on ac- count of this prevailing heresy , Moses , -either by divine direction , or , finding that those whom he ...
... hand : this ( also ) were an iniquity to be punished by the Judge ; for I should have denied the God that is above . " * And on ac- count of this prevailing heresy , Moses , -either by divine direction , or , finding that those whom he ...
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... hand extremity of the device , which I understand to be the oriental quarter of the present horoscope , I conceive to be those of auspicious omen to the native , Jupiter and Venus ; by Ptolemy and Manilius termed " the two benevolent ...
... hand extremity of the device , which I understand to be the oriental quarter of the present horoscope , I conceive to be those of auspicious omen to the native , Jupiter and Venus ; by Ptolemy and Manilius termed " the two benevolent ...
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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.