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... extend along the bay of Campeachy . The name swamp seems to indicate the presence of water , and this is cor- rect , during the winter months ; but when the heat of summer is set in , the swamps dry up , and no running stream is heard ...
... extend along the bay of Campeachy . The name swamp seems to indicate the presence of water , and this is cor- rect , during the winter months ; but when the heat of summer is set in , the swamps dry up , and no running stream is heard ...
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... extends from Lapland to the subalpine parts of Italy , and is found in Asia , on mountains and high windy places . This valua- ble tree furnishes to the natives of those remote , and often sterile regions , all that their necessities ...
... extends from Lapland to the subalpine parts of Italy , and is found in Asia , on mountains and high windy places . This valua- ble tree furnishes to the natives of those remote , and often sterile regions , all that their necessities ...
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... extend our researches on this subject , as far as the discoveries of various travellers en- able us to ascertain the important fact . Palm - trees shade the sultry regions of the Line , and vast forests of mossy firs extend to the ...
... extend our researches on this subject , as far as the discoveries of various travellers en- able us to ascertain the important fact . Palm - trees shade the sultry regions of the Line , and vast forests of mossy firs extend to the ...
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... extend over a great part of Poland , till checked by the appearance of those fine oaks , which announce that a different order of vegetation has com- menced . These forests are so extensive , that a squirrel may bound over the greatest ...
... extend over a great part of Poland , till checked by the appearance of those fine oaks , which announce that a different order of vegetation has com- menced . These forests are so extensive , that a squirrel may bound over the greatest ...
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... extend beyond their alloted station . The banana advances from the Line to the southern shores of the Mediterranean . The orange , as St. Pierre observes , crosses its classic waves , and em- bellishes with its golden fruit the southern ...
... extend beyond their alloted station . The banana advances from the Line to the southern shores of the Mediterranean . The orange , as St. Pierre observes , crosses its classic waves , and em- bellishes with its golden fruit the southern ...
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Page 215 - Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Page 112 - Sweet bird ! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear ; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year...
Page 226 - And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made: ~] And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
Page 227 - And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more. 13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth : and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
Page 227 - And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; and the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
Page 46 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry ? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Page 193 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Page 194 - And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 61 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years...
Page 218 - Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.