The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 58Leavitt, Trow, & Company, 1863 |
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... called to serve can now secure exemption by paying the sum fixed by the Government , and the family is then relieved from all responsi- bility . The money is paid into the Caisse de la Dotation de l'Armée , which takes upon itself to ...
... called to serve can now secure exemption by paying the sum fixed by the Government , and the family is then relieved from all responsi- bility . The money is paid into the Caisse de la Dotation de l'Armée , which takes upon itself to ...
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... called Myr- dals Jökull , usually as white with ice and snow as another huge Jokull adjoining ; but , at the time of this visit , it has ex- changed its fine white garment for a me- lancholy covering of sackcloth and ashes , thrown over ...
... called Myr- dals Jökull , usually as white with ice and snow as another huge Jokull adjoining ; but , at the time of this visit , it has ex- changed its fine white garment for a me- lancholy covering of sackcloth and ashes , thrown over ...
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... called , par excellence , the Great Geyser , and it has for many years attracted the chief attention of visitors . Geologists , chemists , and commen men have gathered round this boiling crater , and have experimented and speculated ...
... called , par excellence , the Great Geyser , and it has for many years attracted the chief attention of visitors . Geologists , chemists , and commen men have gathered round this boiling crater , and have experimented and speculated ...
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... called " Stroker , " that is , the Churn , which will churn any thing offered it ; but the muddy state of the water caused by the turf or sods thrown in spoils the effect of the continuous jets . A turbid column darts into the air , per ...
... called " Stroker , " that is , the Churn , which will churn any thing offered it ; but the muddy state of the water caused by the turf or sods thrown in spoils the effect of the continuous jets . A turbid column darts into the air , per ...
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... called the Vatna Jökull , which is said to cover a space of three thousand square miles , that is , more than half of Yorkshire . Masses of mountains of every conceivable shape rise to the northward ; while nearly south , and separated ...
... called the Vatna Jökull , which is said to cover a space of three thousand square miles , that is , more than half of Yorkshire . Masses of mountains of every conceivable shape rise to the northward ; while nearly south , and separated ...
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Page 464 - WHEN Love with unconfined wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When I lie tangled in her hair And fettered to her eye, The birds that wanton in the air Know no such liberty.
Page 464 - And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Page 245 - For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me : for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
Page 326 - I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free': Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.
Page 420 - Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.
Page 105 - He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; Exceeding wise, fair spoken, and persuading : Lofty and sour to them that loved him not ; But, to those men that sought him, sweet as summer And though he were unsatisfied in getting, (Which was a sin,) yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely...
Page 490 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play, Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow: Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
Page 324 - If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp...
Page 271 - I will report no other wonder but this ; that though I lived with him, and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man : with such staidness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as carried grace and reverence above greater years. His talk ever of knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mind ; so as even his teachers found something in him to observe and learn, above that which they had usually read or taught.
Page 326 - And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye be come into the land which I give unto you...