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 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 24
Page 843
... seen the boiling waters strongly and effectively depicted , and the two staunch little steamers that make their tours under the constant showers of spray . Never before has this subject been handled by any artist with equal force and ...
... seen the boiling waters strongly and effectively depicted , and the two staunch little steamers that make their tours under the constant showers of spray . Never before has this subject been handled by any artist with equal force and ...
Page 851
... seen the making of North America . About the middle of the fourteenth century , 150 years before Columbus , the south of Ar- menia was in the hands of semi - barbarous Kurds ; the north in those of the Per- sians , while the Ottoman ...
... seen the making of North America . About the middle of the fourteenth century , 150 years before Columbus , the south of Ar- menia was in the hands of semi - barbarous Kurds ; the north in those of the Per- sians , while the Ottoman ...
Page 852
... seen General Washington , that most singular man , the soul and support of one of the greatest revolutions that has ever happened , or can happen . He is of a tall and noble stature , well - proportioned , a fine , cheerful , open ...
... seen General Washington , that most singular man , the soul and support of one of the greatest revolutions that has ever happened , or can happen . He is of a tall and noble stature , well - proportioned , a fine , cheerful , open ...
Page 853
... seen him - they follow him through the towns with torches , and celebrate his arrival by public illuminations . The Americans , that cool and sedate people , who in the midst of their most trying difficulties have attended only to the ...
... seen him - they follow him through the towns with torches , and celebrate his arrival by public illuminations . The Americans , that cool and sedate people , who in the midst of their most trying difficulties have attended only to the ...
Page 855
... seen him : " What can my testimony add to the idea already formed of him ? The continent of North America , from Boston to Charleston , is a great volume , every page of which presents his eulogium . Having had the opportunity of a near ...
... seen him : " What can my testimony add to the idea already formed of him ? The continent of North America , from Boston to Charleston , is a great volume , every page of which presents his eulogium . Having had the opportunity of a near ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
American Amorites appearance Armenian army Assyria atoms Babylonian Babylonian language Bismarck called Canaan carried cent century Chamberlain chemical chemical affinity Chicago church civilization coast Columbus commerce conquest deity distance dynasty earth effect Egypt Egyptian elec England English Euphrates fact feet France George Sand German give gold Harran Hebrew Hyksos inches interest Israelite Jerusalem king known land light lonian look Lord March matter Mediterranean ment mention Self Culture miles moon mountain Naram-Sin nation oxygen Palestine paper parliament pass Phoenicians photosphere political pope President Professor prophet Rameses Rameses II regard retina river sailed Savonarola Sayce Semitic sent Solomon spot story sun's Syria temple things thou thy merchants tion torpedo-boat trade tricity Tyre United Venezuela Vespucius vote Washington whirls write to advertisers York
Popular passages
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.
Page 902 - A History of Our Own Times, from the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880. Four Vols. demy Svo, cloth extra, 12s. each. — Also a POPULAR EDITION, in Four Vols. crown 8vo, cloth extra, 6s. each. A Short History of Our Own Times.
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.