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... Greeks lying at anchor before the city , and the Greek army encamped on the shore . On another wall was painted , with wonderful skill , the Trojan and Greek armies engaged in battle . There was Hector , his own brother , dragged be ...
... Greeks lying at anchor before the city , and the Greek army encamped on the shore . On another wall was painted , with wonderful skill , the Trojan and Greek armies engaged in battle . There was Hector , his own brother , dragged be ...
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... Greek to me . I certainly do not see why you wish to keep it a secret . Tell me . " 66 Well , sir , I could not read one of your letters half so well as I can this ; and it contains news of the greatest importance . It is the Indian's ...
... Greek to me . I certainly do not see why you wish to keep it a secret . Tell me . " 66 Well , sir , I could not read one of your letters half so well as I can this ; and it contains news of the greatest importance . It is the Indian's ...
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... Greeks , and the Greeks from the Phoenicians , a people who used the THE LINGUAL READER . 51.
... Greeks , and the Greeks from the Phoenicians , a people who used the THE LINGUAL READER . 51.
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Lingual reader. Greeks from the Phoenicians , a people who used the same letters as the Jews . Dr. Wisdom rose to depart . Wilmer bowed , and thanked him for his kindness . I will never forget your account of picture , symbol , and ...
Lingual reader. Greeks from the Phoenicians , a people who used the same letters as the Jews . Dr. Wisdom rose to depart . Wilmer bowed , and thanked him for his kindness . I will never forget your account of picture , symbol , and ...
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... vast empires . The English language is spreading itself into all parts of the earth . It is a sister to the noble German . It claims a close relationship with the Latin and Greek , and the Sanskrit , the ancient THE LINGUAL READER . 63.
... vast empires . The English language is spreading itself into all parts of the earth . It is a sister to the noble German . It claims a close relationship with the Latin and Greek , and the Sanskrit , the ancient THE LINGUAL READER . 63.
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Page 139 - This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Page 61 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 164 - Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honor and majesty; who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain...
Page 164 - Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain : Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot ; who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Page 61 - And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do : and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all...
Page 164 - For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 58 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them : and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page 172 - Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place in all generations. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Page 172 - We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning.
Page 154 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.