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... principles of astronomy . 66 6 Physical astronomy , as a department of mathematical theory , owes its origin to a simple accident . Sir Isaac Newton was forced from Cambridge in the year 1666 , by the plague . During his retirement ...
... principles of astronomy . 66 6 Physical astronomy , as a department of mathematical theory , owes its origin to a simple accident . Sir Isaac Newton was forced from Cambridge in the year 1666 , by the plague . During his retirement ...
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... principles of grammar ; its philosophy , as it is sometimes termed . For want of this , we have known some writers who had not forgotten a single rule of grammar , and who , in writing , care- fully applied each whenever the application ...
... principles of grammar ; its philosophy , as it is sometimes termed . For want of this , we have known some writers who had not forgotten a single rule of grammar , and who , in writing , care- fully applied each whenever the application ...
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their own language , seek to add the knowledge of those general principles on which all particular grammars are founded . " The title is , Elements of Language and General Grammar . By George Payne , LL.D. Foolscap 8vo . , pp . 236 ...
their own language , seek to add the knowledge of those general principles on which all particular grammars are founded . " The title is , Elements of Language and General Grammar . By George Payne , LL.D. Foolscap 8vo . , pp . 236 ...
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... principles which have previously been embraced . The facts of the case are plain ; but they are examined from very different positions . He who would study the reign of Charles the First to advantage , ought first of all to ask , On ...
... principles which have previously been embraced . The facts of the case are plain ; but they are examined from very different positions . He who would study the reign of Charles the First to advantage , ought first of all to ask , On ...
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... PRINCIPLES . We have often heard the remark , made with nothing like levity or scoffing , but with , perhaps , a good - humoured smile , " Ah , well , the devil is not asleep : he sees that good is likely to be done , and he is stirring ...
... PRINCIPLES . We have often heard the remark , made with nothing like levity or scoffing , but with , perhaps , a good - humoured smile , " Ah , well , the devil is not asleep : he sees that good is likely to be done , and he is stirring ...
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Page 27 - The verdure of the plain lies buried deep Beneath the dazzling deluge; and the bents, And coarser grass, upspearing o'er the rest, Of late unsightly and unseen, now shine Conspicuous, and in bright apparel clad, And fledged with icy feathers, nod superb. The cattle mourn in corners where the fence Screens them, and seem half petrified to sleep In unrecumbent sadness.
Page 116 - And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder ; and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps, and they sung as it were a new song before the throne and before the four beasts and the elders; and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
Page 242 - If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan...
Page 170 - Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God...
Page 10 - He shall feed his flock like a shepherd, he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
Page 133 - These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due .season. That thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.
Page 111 - And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck...
Page 222 - Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in. the day ? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
Page 250 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend; And entertains the harmless day With a religious book or friend — This man is freed from servile bands Of hope to rise or fear to fall: Lord of himself, though not of lands, And, having nothing, yet hath all.
Page 162 - ONE prayer I have, — all prayers in one, — When I am wholly thine; • " Thy will, my God, thy will be done, And let that will be mine.