Self Culture; a Monthly Devoted to the Interests of the Home University League, Volume 2, Issue 6Edward Cornelius Toune, Graeme Mercer Adam Self-culture magazine Company, 1896 |
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Page 851
... character . Their pre - Christian literature has to- tally perished . Christian literary develop- ment among them was very marked until in the sixth century A. D. , when the Persians cut off the connection between Armenia and the ...
... character . Their pre - Christian literature has to- tally perished . Christian literary develop- ment among them was very marked until in the sixth century A. D. , when the Persians cut off the connection between Armenia and the ...
Page 853
... character . In all the extensive states they con- sider him in the light of a beneficent god , dis- pensing peace and happiness around him . Old men , women , and children press about him when he accidentally passes along , and think ...
... character . In all the extensive states they con- sider him in the light of a beneficent god , dis- pensing peace and happiness around him . Old men , women , and children press about him when he accidentally passes along , and think ...
Page 854
... character of a soldier and eminent private gentleman . He soon put me at ease , by unbending in a free and affable conversation . " The cautious reserve which wisdom and policy dictated , whilst engaged in rearing the glorious fabric of ...
... character of a soldier and eminent private gentleman . He soon put me at ease , by unbending in a free and affable conversation . " The cautious reserve which wisdom and policy dictated , whilst engaged in rearing the glorious fabric of ...
Page 855
... character , it is the unanimity of the public suffrages in his favor . Soldier , magistrate , people , all love and admire him ; all speak of him in terms of tenderness and veneration . Does there exist a virtue capable of restraining ...
... character , it is the unanimity of the public suffrages in his favor . Soldier , magistrate , people , all love and admire him ; all speak of him in terms of tenderness and veneration . Does there exist a virtue capable of restraining ...
Page 857
... character of virtues so happily tempered by one another , and so wholly unalloyed with any vices , as that of Washington , is hardly to be found in the pages of history . " At an earlier date ( January 31st , 1794 ) , re- marking On ...
... character of virtues so happily tempered by one another , and so wholly unalloyed with any vices , as that of Washington , is hardly to be found in the pages of history . " At an earlier date ( January 31st , 1794 ) , re- marking On ...
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Page 879 - My servants shall bring them down from Lebanon unto the sea : and I will convey them by sea in floats unto the place that thou shalt appoint me, and will cause them to be discharged there, and thou shalt receive them: and thou shalt accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.
Page 880 - Woe unto them that join house to house, That lay field to field, till there be no place, That they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
Page 879 - And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
Page 880 - For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men. As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
Page 875 - And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart. For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart...
Page 876 - And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln : and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon.
Page 880 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Page 878 - Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.
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Page 880 - Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.