Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge, Volume 1Redfield and Lindsay, 1834 |
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... island itself ; or , according to some , because he by his light makes all things manifest ; and for this reason he was likewise denominated Phanæus . He was denominated Delphinius , because he killed the serpent Python or Delphis ; or ...
... island itself ; or , according to some , because he by his light makes all things manifest ; and for this reason he was likewise denominated Phanæus . He was denominated Delphinius , because he killed the serpent Python or Delphis ; or ...
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... Islands , New Zealand , and the extensive group of islands denominated Polynesia , with the excep- tion of New Holland , New Guinea , New Caledonia , and Van Dieman's Land . The complexion of this class is of a blackish brown , or ...
... Islands , New Zealand , and the extensive group of islands denominated Polynesia , with the excep- tion of New Holland , New Guinea , New Caledonia , and Van Dieman's Land . The complexion of this class is of a blackish brown , or ...
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... Islands , and the inhabitants of the coast of Labrador will under- stand the meaning of the cry which nature utters in its extremity , when wrestling with an agony that prompts the call either for sympathy or succor . The new - formed ...
... Islands , and the inhabitants of the coast of Labrador will under- stand the meaning of the cry which nature utters in its extremity , when wrestling with an agony that prompts the call either for sympathy or succor . The new - formed ...
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... islands of the northern seas , which often come floating into the broad Atlantic , carrying in their atmosphere the chill of the arctic winter , are objects of wonder and interest . There was one singular circum- stance connected with ...
... islands of the northern seas , which often come floating into the broad Atlantic , carrying in their atmosphere the chill of the arctic winter , are objects of wonder and interest . There was one singular circum- stance connected with ...
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... islands and continents , by the melting of the pure snows and ice into a deluge of water , which rushing in fresh and gelid streams into the bays and indentations of the ocean , displaces the salt water , and freezes by itself . Year ...
... islands and continents , by the melting of the pure snows and ice into a deluge of water , which rushing in fresh and gelid streams into the bays and indentations of the ocean , displaces the salt water , and freezes by itself . Year ...
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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?