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... darkness spreads her jealous wings , And the night raven sings ; There , under bon shades and low - browed rocks , As ragged as thy locks , In dark Cimmerian darkness ever dwell . UESTIONS . - When is a sentence said to be read in a ...
... darkness spreads her jealous wings , And the night raven sings ; There , under bon shades and low - browed rocks , As ragged as thy locks , In dark Cimmerian darkness ever dwell . UESTIONS . - When is a sentence said to be read in a ...
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... dark , a stranger from one of the coaches , asking for a barber , was directed by the hostler , to the cellar opposite . Coming in hastily , he re- quested to be shaved quickly , while they changed horses , as he did not like to violate ...
... dark , a stranger from one of the coaches , asking for a barber , was directed by the hostler , to the cellar opposite . Coming in hastily , he re- quested to be shaved quickly , while they changed horses , as he did not like to violate ...
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... dark storm ' ; the red bolt defying ; His wing on the wind ' , and his eye on the sun ' , He swerves not a hair ' , but bears onward ' , right on . Boy , may the eagle's flight ever be thine ; Onward , and upward , and true to the line ...
... dark storm ' ; the red bolt defying ; His wing on the wind ' , and his eye on the sun ' , He swerves not a hair ' , but bears onward ' , right on . Boy , may the eagle's flight ever be thine ; Onward , and upward , and true to the line ...
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... dark horizon . Fear is what we need , as the ship needs wind on a rocking sea , after a storm , to prevent founder- ing . But when our fear and our efforts shall correspond with our danger , the danger is past . 6. For it is not the ...
... dark horizon . Fear is what we need , as the ship needs wind on a rocking sea , after a storm , to prevent founder- ing . But when our fear and our efforts shall correspond with our danger , the danger is past . 6. For it is not the ...
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... dark blue ocean , roll . Words to be Spelled and Defined . 1 Pre - coc ' - i - ty , n . early growth , ripeness before the usual time . 2. Ru ' - di - ments , n first principles , things to be first learnt . 4. De - vi ' - ces , n ...
... dark blue ocean , roll . Words to be Spelled and Defined . 1 Pre - coc ' - i - ty , n . early growth , ripeness before the usual time . 2. Ru ' - di - ments , n first principles , things to be first learnt . 4. De - vi ' - ces , n ...
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Page 183 - Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee.
Page 183 - And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world; that they which see not might see, and that they which see might be made blind.
Page 180 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth on to meet the armed men.
Page 181 - Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents : but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
Page 331 - And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
Page 241 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 182 - These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
Page 175 - Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
Page 287 - tis said, when all were fired, Filled with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round They snatched her instruments of sound, And, as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each, for Madness ruled the hour, Would prove his own expressive power.
Page 246 - The LORD hath been mindful of us: he will bless us; he will bless the house of Israel; he will bless the house of Aaron. 13 He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.