Juvenile essays which obtained the prizes proposed by the proprietor of The Teacher's offering; to which is prefixed, an intr. by H.F. Burder |
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... thirst for knowledge could seldom attain the desired gratification , without encountering difficulties , which to many in early life , appear formidable and forbidding . Inexpressible would have been the feelings of interest with which ...
... thirst for knowledge could seldom attain the desired gratification , without encountering difficulties , which to many in early life , appear formidable and forbidding . Inexpressible would have been the feelings of interest with which ...
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... thirst . Antilibanus is the loftier ridge of the two ; its summit is clad in perpetual snow ; and with its corresponding ridge it forms a strong and almost an insurmountable barrier . Mount Carmel is situated about ten miles from Acré ...
... thirst . Antilibanus is the loftier ridge of the two ; its summit is clad in perpetual snow ; and with its corresponding ridge it forms a strong and almost an insurmountable barrier . Mount Carmel is situated about ten miles from Acré ...
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... thirst . The ruins of edifices are discernible , and attest the religious veneration with which that hallowed spot has been regarded . A re- flecting person will feel as if he stood on holy ground , and remember how God breathed his ...
... thirst . The ruins of edifices are discernible , and attest the religious veneration with which that hallowed spot has been regarded . A re- flecting person will feel as if he stood on holy ground , and remember how God breathed his ...
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... thirsty , their soul fainted in them . " In our temperate clime , surrounded by every thing that can delight the eye , or please the fancy , we can scarcely picture in our imagination the dread horrors encountered by the 51.
... thirsty , their soul fainted in them . " In our temperate clime , surrounded by every thing that can delight the eye , or please the fancy , we can scarcely picture in our imagination the dread horrors encountered by the 51.
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... thirsty traveller drinks of it , he increases his thirst , and suffers more than before . But when the calamity happens that the next well which he so anxiously sought after is found dry , 52.
... thirsty traveller drinks of it , he increases his thirst , and suffers more than before . But when the calamity happens that the next well which he so anxiously sought after is found dry , 52.
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Page 127 - I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation: and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing : and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Page 55 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shall keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Page 24 - And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you ; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return eveiy man unto his family.
Page 124 - This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Page 127 - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
Page 32 - Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord.
Page 110 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Page 58 - Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders. He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Page 109 - For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Page 21 - And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.