The Saturday Magazine, Volume 16J. W. Parker, 1840 |
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... carry . There courting swains their passion prove By knocking down the girls they love . There every servant gets his place By character of foul disgrace ; There vice is virtue , virtue vice , And all that's vile is voted nice . The sun ...
... carry . There courting swains their passion prove By knocking down the girls they love . There every servant gets his place By character of foul disgrace ; There vice is virtue , virtue vice , And all that's vile is voted nice . The sun ...
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... By the Greeks they were called schedai , and many writers , that the ancients ventured out to sea with them , on piratical expeditions , as well as to carry on com- 483 merce ; and that after the invention of ships ,. THE ...
... By the Greeks they were called schedai , and many writers , that the ancients ventured out to sea with them , on piratical expeditions , as well as to carry on com- 483 merce ; and that after the invention of ships ,. THE ...
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... carried on the river Po , to Ra- venna from the Alps , particularly the Rhætian , and to be conveyed also to Rome , for their most import- ant buildings . Vitruvius says , that this timber was so heavy that the waters could not support ...
... carried on the river Po , to Ra- venna from the Alps , particularly the Rhætian , and to be conveyed also to Rome , for their most import- ant buildings . Vitruvius says , that this timber was so heavy that the waters could not support ...
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... carry back our researches to times antecedent to the existence of the human species . It can be proved that man had a beginning , and that all the species now contemporary with man , and many others which preceded these races , had also ...
... carry back our researches to times antecedent to the existence of the human species . It can be proved that man had a beginning , and that all the species now contemporary with man , and many others which preceded these races , had also ...
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... carried away a part of the wall , two miles in extent , and faci- litated their assault . The carelessness and drunken . ness of the inhabitants , likewise , gave the enemy every advantage , and became the fulfilment of another part of ...
... carried away a part of the wall , two miles in extent , and faci- litated their assault . The carelessness and drunken . ness of the inhabitants , likewise , gave the enemy every advantage , and became the fulfilment of another part of ...
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Page 44 - PANSIES, lilies, kingcups, daisies, Let them live upon their praises ; Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory ; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story : There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine.
Page 29 - With heaping coals of fire upon his head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And loose from dross the silver runs below.
Page 120 - 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 11 - And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness. And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the cedar work.
Page 20 - And if neglect had lavished on the ground Fragment of bread, she would collect the same ; For well she knew, and quaintly could expound, What sin it were to waste the smallest crumb she found.
Page 9 - geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy...
Page 5 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Page 157 - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 169 - As if here were those cooler shades of love. Can such delights be in the street " And open fields and we not see't ? Come, we'll abroad; and let's obey The proclamation made for May...
Page 2 - Rules to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-days begin. EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.