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Page 17
... probably by Guten- berg and Fust . The first printed edition of the Bible in any modern language was in the German , supposed to be printed by John Mentelin . The first Polish version with which we are acquainted is one by Hedwige ...
... probably by Guten- berg and Fust . The first printed edition of the Bible in any modern language was in the German , supposed to be printed by John Mentelin . The first Polish version with which we are acquainted is one by Hedwige ...
Page 100
... probably much of a kind with them . " On the morning fol- lowing these discoveries , I rode to the encampment of Sheikh Abd - ur - rahman , and was returning to the mound , when I saw two Arabs of his tribe urging their mares to the top ...
... probably much of a kind with them . " On the morning fol- lowing these discoveries , I rode to the encampment of Sheikh Abd - ur - rahman , and was returning to the mound , when I saw two Arabs of his tribe urging their mares to the top ...
Page 114
... probably be the same , particularly if caused by the reflection , that before those wonderful forms Ezekiel , Jonah , and others of the prophets stood , and Sennacherib bowed - that even the patriarch Abraham himself may possibly have ...
... probably be the same , particularly if caused by the reflection , that before those wonderful forms Ezekiel , Jonah , and others of the prophets stood , and Sennacherib bowed - that even the patriarch Abraham himself may possibly have ...
Page 126
... probably lead to the discovery of additional monuments and inscriptions , adding to the great mass of materials which , in the last three years , has been placed in our possession . It would scarcely be reasonable or consistent , after ...
... probably lead to the discovery of additional monuments and inscriptions , adding to the great mass of materials which , in the last three years , has been placed in our possession . It would scarcely be reasonable or consistent , after ...
Page 128
... of their features , to distinguish them from the Assyrians ; and , if their race or nation was in- dicated , it was probably , as on the monuments of Egypt , by colour , which has completely disap- peared 128 NINEVEH AND ITS REMAINS .
... of their features , to distinguish them from the Assyrians ; and , if their race or nation was in- dicated , it was probably , as on the monuments of Egypt , by colour , which has completely disap- peared 128 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?