Littell's Living Age, Volume 19Living Age Company, Incorporated, 1848 |
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... moral and political exposés , tedious as these latter seem to have been to the victims of them , bring the courtly life and great men of Niger's banks more distinctly before us than would have been the case in a common expedition . The ...
... moral and political exposés , tedious as these latter seem to have been to the victims of them , bring the courtly life and great men of Niger's banks more distinctly before us than would have been the case in a common expedition . The ...
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... morals and freedom , fell into the " domestic institution , " and possessed themselves of the driver's badge of authority , the whip . There was a tone about the narrative that suggested the idea of some exaggeration ; but it seems to ...
... morals and freedom , fell into the " domestic institution , " and possessed themselves of the driver's badge of authority , the whip . There was a tone about the narrative that suggested the idea of some exaggeration ; but it seems to ...
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... moral community than in planting and nourishing its colony on this coast , is to be found at Monrovia . On the Sabbath it is but imagine I am safe in estimating it at not more truly a joyful sound to hear hymns of praise , and than four ...
... moral community than in planting and nourishing its colony on this coast , is to be found at Monrovia . On the Sabbath it is but imagine I am safe in estimating it at not more truly a joyful sound to hear hymns of praise , and than four ...
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... moral and religious ; and to judge from what I saw at Monrovia , I don't think , for the number of inhabitants , there is a greater amount of human happiness to be found in any part of the world . From the Spectator . JAMES GREGOR ...
... moral and religious ; and to judge from what I saw at Monrovia , I don't think , for the number of inhabitants , there is a greater amount of human happiness to be found in any part of the world . From the Spectator . JAMES GREGOR ...
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... moral and physical , especially the more pro- gressive ones , now nominally taught at Oxford , of late been virtually abandoned ; chiefly because , according to the present system of examinations , no proficiency in those sciences could ...
... moral and physical , especially the more pro- gressive ones , now nominally taught at Oxford , of late been virtually abandoned ; chiefly because , according to the present system of examinations , no proficiency in those sciences could ...
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Page 260 - Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; To shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Page 293 - It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.
Page 52 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Page 362 - Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; Nor for the arrow that flieth by day; Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Page 250 - I made me great works ; I builded me houses ; I planted me vineyards : I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits: I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees...
Page 50 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 394 - And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to Thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.
Page 260 - With what to sight or smell was sweet, from thee How shall I part, and whither wander down Into a lower world, to this obscure And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustom'd to immortal fruits?
Page 359 - Come unto me, all ye that are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest !" He smiled and wept when he spoke these words.
Page 54 - Then saith he to Thomas, Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands ; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side; and be not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord, and my God.