Instructive Extracts, Comprising Religious and Moral Instruction, Natural History, Elementary Science, Accounts of Remarkable Persons, Places [etc.]: With a Selection of Passages from the British Poets [etc.]Oliver & Boyd, 1843 |
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... moved with pity ; but at the grave of his friend Lazarus , where his feelings were more strongly overpowered , Jesus wept . While all nations were to share his benefits , every one must have perceived that his own ungrateful country ...
... moved with pity ; but at the grave of his friend Lazarus , where his feelings were more strongly overpowered , Jesus wept . While all nations were to share his benefits , every one must have perceived that his own ungrateful country ...
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... move , apparently little injured , to the last , and only perishes when the grub within it no longer requires its aid . - Another tribe of ichneumons , whose activity and perseverance are equally conspicuous , like the insidious cuckoo ...
... move , apparently little injured , to the last , and only perishes when the grub within it no longer requires its aid . - Another tribe of ichneumons , whose activity and perseverance are equally conspicuous , like the insidious cuckoo ...
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... move , could scarcely be conceived to be any thing else ; the legs , as well as the head , having their little snugs and knobs , so that no imitation can be more accurate . Other insects of various tribes represent the leaves of plants ...
... move , could scarcely be conceived to be any thing else ; the legs , as well as the head , having their little snugs and knobs , so that no imitation can be more accurate . Other insects of various tribes represent the leaves of plants ...
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... , employed herself in stringing them on a thread ; when , to her great surprise , the poor animals beginning to move and struggle for their liberty , she , crying out and running away in the utmost alarm , NATURAL HISTORY . 57.
... , employed herself in stringing them on a thread ; when , to her great surprise , the poor animals beginning to move and struggle for their liberty , she , crying out and running away in the utmost alarm , NATURAL HISTORY . 57.
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... maim them , pull them limb from limb , roast them alive over a slow fire , but you will not gain your end ; not a joint will they move , nor show the least symptom that they suffer pain . Do not think , 9 58 NATURAL HISTORY .
... maim them , pull them limb from limb , roast them alive over a slow fire , but you will not gain your end ; not a joint will they move , nor show the least symptom that they suffer pain . Do not think , 9 58 NATURAL HISTORY .
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Page 233 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself. And the people of the Prince, that shall come, shall destroy the city and the sanctuary : and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Page 233 - BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me : and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple; even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in; behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 230 - And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
Page 282 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 324 - GREAT God, what do I see and hear! The end of things created ! The Judge of mankind doth appear On clouds of glory seated ! The trumpet sounds ; the graves restore The dead which they contained before ; Prepare, my soul, to meet Him...
Page 282 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 324 - That day of wrath, that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day...
Page 296 - AT the close of the day, when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill, And nought but the nightingale's song in the grove...
Page 234 - But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting.
Page 231 - The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, Until Shiloh come ; And unto him shall the gathering of the people be.