A Short History of the Hebrews to the Roman PeriodMacmillan, 1901 - 324 pages |
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... character is defined. For example, a testis is certainly a primary sexual character in animals but the size of the testis in a species may reflect sexual selection pressures through sperm competition (Smith 1984, but see Uller et al ...
... character is defined. For example, a testis is certainly a primary sexual character in animals but the size of the testis in a species may reflect sexual selection pressures through sperm competition (Smith 1984, but see Uller et al ...
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... character is a divorced mother who has given up her livelihood to raise a family , then it would be much more dramatic for her to be starting over at forty years of age than at twenty . See chapters ten and twenty - four for information ...
... character is a divorced mother who has given up her livelihood to raise a family , then it would be much more dramatic for her to be starting over at forty years of age than at twenty . See chapters ten and twenty - four for information ...
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... characters, he, on the contrary, discloses it to his readers. The final form of irony, character irony, focuses on the irony between the characters, and as such its function is to reveal character. It “pertains to a character and his ...
... characters, he, on the contrary, discloses it to his readers. The final form of irony, character irony, focuses on the irony between the characters, and as such its function is to reveal character. It “pertains to a character and his ...
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... CHARACTER'S PHYSICAL DIMENSION character more realistic for the reader by describing how the character takes up physical space and has an impact on his or her surroundings. W.2, W.4, W.5, W.9, W.10 L.1, L.2, L.3 4. SHOWING HOW CHARACTERS ...
... CHARACTER'S PHYSICAL DIMENSION character more realistic for the reader by describing how the character takes up physical space and has an impact on his or her surroundings. W.2, W.4, W.5, W.9, W.10 L.1, L.2, L.3 4. SHOWING HOW CHARACTERS ...
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... characters , self - fashioned performers in the theater of life . Theirs was not character as we today are apt to understand it , as the inner personality that contains hidden contradictions and flaws . ( This present - day view of ...
... characters , self - fashioned performers in the theater of life . Theirs was not character as we today are apt to understand it , as the inner personality that contains hidden contradictions and flaws . ( This present - day view of ...
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Page 65 - Now, therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people : for all the earth is mine : and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
Page 75 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Page 207 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Page 76 - And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness ? for there is no bread, neither is there any water ; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
Page 176 - So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son. And the Lord said unto him, "Call his name Jezreel ; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.
Page 128 - For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, He hath also rejected thee from being king.
Page 282 - By the torture, prolonged from age to age, "By the infamy, Israel's heritage, "By the Ghetto's plague, by the garb's disgrace, "By the badge of shame, by the felon's place, "By the branding-tool, the bloody whip, "And the summons to Christian fellowship, — "We boast our proof that at least the Jew "Would wrest Christ's name from the Devil's crew.
Page 121 - And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground. And all Israel from Dan even to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD.
Page 59 - And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh: and they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.
Page 32 - And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be.