Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 48John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1859 |
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... feet of Gamaliel , instructed in all the learning of the Rabbis , after the strictest sect of the Pharisees , as well as thoroughly imbued with heathen literature , such was the preparatory training that fitted the Apostle of the ...
... feet of Gamaliel , instructed in all the learning of the Rabbis , after the strictest sect of the Pharisees , as well as thoroughly imbued with heathen literature , such was the preparatory training that fitted the Apostle of the ...
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... feet above water , and , since there is six times as much below as above , the total thickness must have been sixty - three feet . This thickness is not the result of direct freezing . When the young ice is formed , the snow often ...
... feet above water , and , since there is six times as much below as above , the total thickness must have been sixty - three feet . This thickness is not the result of direct freezing . When the young ice is formed , the snow often ...
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... feet high . This extraordinary re- fractive power adds greatly to the sunset effects , as it must enhance all the prospect in this wild and desolate region . The broken surfaces of the floes are magnified into far - stretching ...
... feet high . This extraordinary re- fractive power adds greatly to the sunset effects , as it must enhance all the prospect in this wild and desolate region . The broken surfaces of the floes are magnified into far - stretching ...
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... feet , of a dark color ; the boots on Sunday were red . They liked to display their finery , especially at church ; and where this lay at some dis- tance , and the road was muddy , they often went barefooted in order not to soil their ...
... feet , of a dark color ; the boots on Sunday were red . They liked to display their finery , especially at church ; and where this lay at some dis- tance , and the road was muddy , they often went barefooted in order not to soil their ...
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... feet . These and various other plants so interlaced to- gether that the botanist may often be misled to confound the flowers belonging to one with those of another ; while through the dense and compact mass of foliage no solar ray is ...
... feet . These and various other plants so interlaced to- gether that the botanist may often be misled to confound the flowers belonging to one with those of another ; while through the dense and compact mass of foliage no solar ray is ...
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Page 70 - That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.
Page 248 - Who, moving, cast the coverlet aside, And bared the knotted column of his throat, The massive square of his heroic breast, And arms on which the standing muscle sloped, As slopes a wild brook o'er a little stone, Running too vehemently to break upon it.
Page 477 - By sports like these are all their cares beguiled, The sports of children satisfy the child...
Page 254 - To reverence the King, as if he were Their conscience, and their conscience as their King To break the heathen and uphold the Christ, To ride abroad redressing human wrongs, To speak no slander, no, nor listen to it, To honor his own word as if his God's, To lead sweet lives in purest chastity, To love one maiden only, cleave to her, And worship her by years of noble deeds, Until they won her...
Page 388 - The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this Publican. 12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
Page 23 - As who pursued with yell and blow Still treads the shadow of his foe, And forward bends his head, The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, And southward aye we fled. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold; And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald...
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Page 147 - Those- miscellaneous activities which make up the leisure part of life, devoted to the gratification of the tastes and feelings.
Page 169 - For the due discharge of parental functions, the proper guidance is to be found only in — Science. For that interpretation of national life, past and present, without which the citizen cannot rightly regulate his conduct, the indispensable key is — Science. Alike for the most perfect production and highest enjoyment of art in all its forms, the needful preparation is still — Science. And for purposes of discipline — intellectual, moral, religious — the most efficient study is, once more...
Page 484 - From the lone shieling of the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas — Yet still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland, And we in dreams behold the Hebrides : Fair these broad meads, &c.