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Page 76
... feet were worn out with walking and their throats with eating . At one of their feasts twelve beloved men are employed to construct a booth or tent of green branches , in which they perform certain religious rites , erect an altar of ...
... feet were worn out with walking and their throats with eating . At one of their feasts twelve beloved men are employed to construct a booth or tent of green branches , in which they perform certain religious rites , erect an altar of ...
Page 84
... feet in length . Within a little more than a foot of the top of this there was nailed , transversely , another piece of wood , three or four feet in length . A very prominent part of the cross , however , still remains to be mentioned ...
... feet in length . Within a little more than a foot of the top of this there was nailed , transversely , another piece of wood , three or four feet in length . A very prominent part of the cross , however , still remains to be mentioned ...
Page 88
... feet , and in the back , which is lacerated with stripes . The nails being driven through the parts of the hands and feet which abound in nerves and tendons , create the most exquisite anguish . The exposure of so many wounds to the ...
... feet , and in the back , which is lacerated with stripes . The nails being driven through the parts of the hands and feet which abound in nerves and tendons , create the most exquisite anguish . The exposure of so many wounds to the ...
Page 91
... feet with three long and sharp nails ; and inflicted , two inches below the left hypocon- drium , a wound with a cobbler's knife , which did not , however , injure any of the internal parts . As soon as he was perceived , some humane ...
... feet with three long and sharp nails ; and inflicted , two inches below the left hypocon- drium , a wound with a cobbler's knife , which did not , however , injure any of the internal parts . As soon as he was perceived , some humane ...
Page 102
... I now ordered a trench to be dug due south from the head , in the expectation of finding a corresponding figure , and before nightfall reached the object of my search about twelve feet distant . 102 NINEVEH AND ITS REMAINS ,
... I now ordered a trench to be dug due south from the head , in the expectation of finding a corresponding figure , and before nightfall reached the object of my search about twelve feet distant . 102 NINEVEH AND ITS REMAINS ,
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Page 31 - ... or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was : and the spirit shall return unto GOD Who gave it.
Page 251 - But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord : thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
Page 203 - And there was a great famine in Samaria : and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Page 7 - And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
Page 28 - All the rivers run into the sea ; yet the sea is not full ; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 250 - Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Page 244 - Thou visitest the earth, and waterest it; thou greatly enrichest it with the river of God, which is full of water: thou preparest them corn when thou hast so provided for it.
Page 268 - The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
Page 31 - ... For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?