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... manner , even to trace them upon trans- parent paper , rather than omit the practice altogether . A real proficiency may soon be made in geographical know- ledge by drawing or tracing maps in any manner , and the same degree of ...
... manner , even to trace them upon trans- parent paper , rather than omit the practice altogether . A real proficiency may soon be made in geographical know- ledge by drawing or tracing maps in any manner , and the same degree of ...
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... manner in which it is observed can be described . Nor is the manner of observing it confined to the lower classes of the native community . The highest apparently joining in it with the same zest as the lowest . For two or three days no ...
... manner in which it is observed can be described . Nor is the manner of observing it confined to the lower classes of the native community . The highest apparently joining in it with the same zest as the lowest . For two or three days no ...
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... manner of flies , all manner of 1ST ALTO . 1ST TENOR an 8ve lower . and there came all manner of flies , all manner of He spake the word , 1ST BASS . He spake the word , 2ND CHORUS . Andante Larghetto . 2ND TREBLE , C 2ND ALTO . 2ND ...
... manner of flies , all manner of 1ST ALTO . 1ST TENOR an 8ve lower . and there came all manner of flies , all manner of He spake the word , 1ST BASS . He spake the word , 2ND CHORUS . Andante Larghetto . 2ND TREBLE , C 2ND ALTO . 2ND ...
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... manner . The various officers showed an added interest in the work . This council is on the up - grade . September 18th at Petoskey , Petoskey No. 62 and Inverness No. 60 co - operating . Inverness opened the council in an animated manner ...
... manner . The various officers showed an added interest in the work . This council is on the up - grade . September 18th at Petoskey , Petoskey No. 62 and Inverness No. 60 co - operating . Inverness opened the council in an animated manner ...
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... manner of the killing clearly demonstrated that it was done in a par- ticular manner for a particular reason . This is the sort of relation the manner of killing should bear to the reason for its commission to establish the elements of ...
... manner of the killing clearly demonstrated that it was done in a par- ticular manner for a particular reason . This is the sort of relation the manner of killing should bear to the reason for its commission to establish the elements of ...
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Page 97 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 65 - ... seas that ran among them. I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with garlands upon their heads, passing among the trees, lying down by the sides of fountains, or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused harmony of singing birds, falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments. Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats ; but the genius told me there was no passage...
Page 204 - For joy of offer'd peace : But I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Page 65 - These are the mansions of good men after death, who, according to the degree and kinds of virtue in which they excelled, are distributed among these several islands, which abound with pleasures of different kinds and degrees, suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ; every island is a paradise accommodated to its respective inhabitants. Are not these...
Page 80 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ; A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome...
Page 148 - If I did despise the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me; What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?
Page 355 - Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote. Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone, and as a God Extol him equal to the Highest in Heaven.
Page 317 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 319 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 66 - The genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me ; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating : but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy...