Scenes in Palestine; or, dramatic sketches from the Bible. To which is added the Fair Avenger; or the Destroyer destroyed, an academic drama [in four acts and in verse].

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William Cole, 1825 - 201 pages

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Page 73 - earth ; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered-. and all in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.
Page 35 - And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan ; and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.
Page 18 - Sometime walking, not unseen, By hedge-row elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate Where the great sun begins his state, Bob'd in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries
Page 18 - in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight. While the ploughman near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milk -maid singeth blithe, And the mower
Page 83 - rode upon a mule, and the mule went under the thick boughs of a great oak, and his head caught hold of the oak, and he was taken up between the heaven and the earth; and the mule that was under him went away.
Page 35 - the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before
Page 103 - And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.
Page 196 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness; and my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand,
Page 195 - Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats; in these were they thy merchants. " The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they -were thy merchants
Page 53 - So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess her daughter-in-law with her, which returned out of the country of Moab. And they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley-harvest.

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