Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge, Volume 1Redfield and Lindsay, 1834 |
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... probably carry us back about three thousand years . So much for the wonderful antiquity of the Hindoos . The Egyptians claimed a far higher antiquity than Moses allows . One cause for this may have been , their reckoning time by lunar ...
... probably carry us back about three thousand years . So much for the wonderful antiquity of the Hindoos . The Egyptians claimed a far higher antiquity than Moses allows . One cause for this may have been , their reckoning time by lunar ...
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... probably in accordance with the maxim , self of his sceptre , and would even have stolen his thun- Set a rogue to catch a rogue . " These statues they derbolts , had he not been fearful that they would burn denominated Hermæ , from ...
... probably in accordance with the maxim , self of his sceptre , and would even have stolen his thun- Set a rogue to catch a rogue . " These statues they derbolts , had he not been fearful that they would burn denominated Hermæ , from ...
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... probably be completely carried off his feet , and encounter the fate of the Flying Philoso- pher ! Happy indeed , if the bursting balloon erected on his philosophical pericranium , should always prove sufficient to shield that luxuriant ...
... probably be completely carried off his feet , and encounter the fate of the Flying Philoso- pher ! Happy indeed , if the bursting balloon erected on his philosophical pericranium , should always prove sufficient to shield that luxuriant ...
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... probably 40,000 , some not being reported . In the afternoon , the Sunday Schools of the city cele- brated their Anniversaries in various churches . The American Peace Society held its Anniversary on Tuesday afternoon , at Clinton Hall ...
... probably 40,000 , some not being reported . In the afternoon , the Sunday Schools of the city cele- brated their Anniversaries in various churches . The American Peace Society held its Anniversary on Tuesday afternoon , at Clinton Hall ...
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... probably result in a general reform of our system of providing for the poor - they can hardly fail in any event to produce an immense melioration of their condition . The foundations of the Society are laid in the broadest and most ...
... probably result in a general reform of our system of providing for the poor - they can hardly fail in any event to produce an immense melioration of their condition . The foundations of the Society are laid in the broadest and most ...
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Page 41 - And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 351 - And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them : for that is delivered unto me ; and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.
Page 385 - God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew : for the Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till, the ground. But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
Page 25 - And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
Page 264 - The United States shall guarantee to every state in the union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion : and on application of the legislature, or of the executive, (when the legislature cannot be convened,) against domestic violence.
Page 378 - And behold I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and every thing that is in the earth shall die, but with thee will I establish My Covenant, and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife, and thy sons
Page 377 - And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Page 25 - And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field.
Page 25 - And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
Page 23 - O thou that rollest above, round as the shield of my fathers! Whence are thy beams, O sun! thy everlasting light! Thou comest forth in thy awful beauty; the stars hide themselves in the sky; the moon, cold and pale, sinks in the western wave; but thou thyself movest alone. Who can be a companion of thy course?