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... look at old Egypt , the sleeping beauty of two thousand years ago , upon whom Time , the great enchanter , turned the key , when we , a nation of yesterday , were a mere embryo , -our ancestry scattered over the wilds and woods of ...
... look at old Egypt , the sleeping beauty of two thousand years ago , upon whom Time , the great enchanter , turned the key , when we , a nation of yesterday , were a mere embryo , -our ancestry scattered over the wilds and woods of ...
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... look down on the cataract to great advantage . It presents a fine coup d'œil . The river here runs E.N.E. and W.S.W. In America , this would be called a rapid , there being no fall visible ; only an immense cluster of innumerable black ...
... look down on the cataract to great advantage . It presents a fine coup d'œil . The river here runs E.N.E. and W.S.W. In America , this would be called a rapid , there being no fall visible ; only an immense cluster of innumerable black ...
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... look like the rest of the desert , there is every reason to suppose that this country was once both populous and flourishing . At the time of the height of Egyptian power , it was considered as an integral part of the state : this is ...
... look like the rest of the desert , there is every reason to suppose that this country was once both populous and flourishing . At the time of the height of Egyptian power , it was considered as an integral part of the state : this is ...
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... look like very large spreading oaks ; the bodies of ' the trees are short , dividing at bottom into three or four , some of which growing up together for about ten feet , appear some- ' thing like those Gothic columns which seem to be ...
... look like very large spreading oaks ; the bodies of ' the trees are short , dividing at bottom into three or four , some of which growing up together for about ten feet , appear some- ' thing like those Gothic columns which seem to be ...
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... look- ing down perpendicularly on the river . The luxuriant variety of foliage was prodigious , and the rich green myrtle , which was very plentiful , contrasted with the colour of the road , the soil of which was a dark red gravel ...
... look- ing down perpendicularly on the river . The luxuriant variety of foliage was prodigious , and the rich green myrtle , which was very plentiful , contrasted with the colour of the road , the soil of which was a dark red gravel ...
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Page 138 - Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance ; knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
Page 58 - I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day.
Page 284 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Page 511 - I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father but by me.
Page 376 - Thou fool ! that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be,, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Page 145 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him ; let him know that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Page 378 - There, with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter...
Page 225 - ... the earth, and the works that are therein, shall be burnt up...
Page 15 - I could reckon up only sixteen, and the latter are very numerous. I measured one of the largest, and found it twelve yards six inches in girth, and yet sound, and thirty-seven yards in the spread of its boughs. At about five or six yards from the ground it was divided into five limbs, each of which was equal to a great tree.
Page 336 - And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.