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... passages in all his poems , that are fitted with exquisite skill to find their way to the heart . But in much of his loftiest poetry he is any thing but interesting . When he aims to teach , he fails to please . He as- pires to sit in ...
... passages in all his poems , that are fitted with exquisite skill to find their way to the heart . But in much of his loftiest poetry he is any thing but interesting . When he aims to teach , he fails to please . He as- pires to sit in ...
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... passage towards Caïro the Author was struck with the populous appearance of the banks of the river , the villages being in almost uninterrupted succession . He also dwells with admiration on the prodigious fertility of the soil of the ...
... passage towards Caïro the Author was struck with the populous appearance of the banks of the river , the villages being in almost uninterrupted succession . He also dwells with admiration on the prodigious fertility of the soil of the ...
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... passage at the central interior of the pyramid . In this passage we found , upon our right hand , the mysterious well . Pliny makes the depth of it equal to one hundred and twenty - nine feet ; but Greaves , in sounding it with a line ...
... passage at the central interior of the pyramid . In this passage we found , upon our right hand , the mysterious well . Pliny makes the depth of it equal to one hundred and twenty - nine feet ; but Greaves , in sounding it with a line ...
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... passages , in the lateral ducts and recesses , and into the final grand apartment , where remains the Soros , or tomb , which once contained , but not since the ear- liest periods of profane history , the lifeless personage for whom the ...
... passages , in the lateral ducts and recesses , and into the final grand apartment , where remains the Soros , or tomb , which once contained , but not since the ear- liest periods of profane history , the lifeless personage for whom the ...
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... passage we have transcribed , to the accuracy of the Ancients , in their descriptive notices at least , concerning ancient structures , we should think there is in- superable improbability in the nature of the thing . Could it comport ...
... passage we have transcribed , to the accuracy of the Ancients , in their descriptive notices at least , concerning ancient structures , we should think there is in- superable improbability in the nature of the thing . Could it comport ...
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Page 416 - Will you be ready with all faithful diligence to banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to God's word...
Page 605 - The secret things belong unto the LORD our God : but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
Page 589 - Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee ; take away this cup from me: nevertheless, not what I will, but what thou wilt.
Page 588 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 174 - IT is certain by God's word, that children which are baptized, dying before they commit actual sin, are undoubtedly saved.
Page 414 - City, and holding a pure faith in the unity of the Spirit and in the bond of peace...
Page 383 - Alastor may be considered as allegorical of one of the most interesting situations of the human mind. It represents a youth of uncorrupted feelings and adventurous genius led forth by an imagination inflamed and purified through familiarity with all that is excellent and majestic, to the contemplation of the universe.
Page 391 - Die, he or justice must ; unless for him Some other, able, and as willing, pay The rigid satisfaction ; death for death.
Page 359 - For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Page 47 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.