Assistant of Education, Volume 9T. Baker, 1827 |
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... children . By Barsina , the widow of Memnon , he had a son named Hercules , who was afterwards murdered . By Roxana , a Bactrian , he had a posthumous son named Alexander , who for a short time had the title of king . By Cleophas , an ...
... children . By Barsina , the widow of Memnon , he had a son named Hercules , who was afterwards murdered . By Roxana , a Bactrian , he had a posthumous son named Alexander , who for a short time had the title of king . By Cleophas , an ...
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... children . It is difficult , without entering into very minute events , to follow the course of these contentions ; obscure as they are , even in the best histories of the period . The kings , one of whom was in infancy , the other ...
... children . It is difficult , without entering into very minute events , to follow the course of these contentions ; obscure as they are , even in the best histories of the period . The kings , one of whom was in infancy , the other ...
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... child , I risk to incur chastise- O how I love thy law . - PSALM exix . 97 . PAUSE there , my soul , a moment , and consider . It is one thing to obey a law - another to love it . Obedi- ence at its best is but the spirit's acquiescence ...
... child , I risk to incur chastise- O how I love thy law . - PSALM exix . 97 . PAUSE there , my soul , a moment , and consider . It is one thing to obey a law - another to love it . Obedi- ence at its best is but the spirit's acquiescence ...
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... children . We may go on through all that is painful , all that is trying to our nature - aye , and through all that is grateful to us too - and still the one is reconciled , the other is exalted , by the reference the heart makes of it ...
... children . We may go on through all that is painful , all that is trying to our nature - aye , and through all that is grateful to us too - and still the one is reconciled , the other is exalted , by the reference the heart makes of it ...
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... children out of the place that providence has designed them for , into some other that seems to be more happy , more ... child . Moderate , retired , and religious in their habits , heaven's blessing was on their store ; and they had no ...
... children out of the place that providence has designed them for , into some other that seems to be more happy , more ... child . Moderate , retired , and religious in their habits , heaven's blessing was on their store ; and they had no ...
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Page 254 - In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.
Page 311 - Blessed are those servants whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching. Verily I say unto you that he shall gird himself and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. "And if he shall come in the second watch or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
Page 276 - To view the structure of that little work A bird's nest. Mark it well, within, without ; No tool had he that wrought ; no knife to cut ; No nail to fix ; no bodkin to insert ; No glue to join ; his little beak was all ; And yet, how neatly finished ! What nice hand, With every implement and means of art, And twenty years...
Page 11 - Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?
Page 140 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 147 - There is one glory of the sun, another of the moon, and one star differeth from another in glory.
Page 277 - Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, and warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones, as though they were not hers: her labour is in vain without fear; Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, neither hath he imparted to her understanding.
Page 344 - But where to find that happiest spot below Who can direct, when all pretend to know ? The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own; Extols the treasures of his stormy seas, And his long nights of revelry and ease; The naked negro, panting at the Line, Boasts of his golden sands and palmy wine, Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave, And thanks his gods for all the good they gave. Such is the patriot's boast where'er we roam, His first, best country, ever...
Page 114 - God — the discharge of the duties of that ministry which is a savour of life unto life, or of death unto death.
Page 335 - ... elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, horse, ox, two or three species of deer, bear, fox, water-rat, and birds. The bones are for the most part broken, and gnawed to pieces, and the teeth lie loose among the fragments of the bones ; a very few teeth remain still fixed in broken fragments of the jaws.