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... ancients had a fable that Europe and Africa were originally joined at this point , and that the two continents were driven asunder , by Hercules , and a passage thereby opened between the At- lantic and the Mediterranean . Gibraltar ...
... ancients had a fable that Europe and Africa were originally joined at this point , and that the two continents were driven asunder , by Hercules , and a passage thereby opened between the At- lantic and the Mediterranean . Gibraltar ...
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... ancients : they were the guides which served to recover mankind from that state of mental weak- ness and degradation ... ancient city , which it once adorned : another account says that it was placed upon the ruins of the city of the ...
... ancients : they were the guides which served to recover mankind from that state of mental weak- ness and degradation ... ancient city , which it once adorned : another account says that it was placed upon the ruins of the city of the ...
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... ancient Egyptian monuments , which did not appear to con- tribute to the support of the column , but to have been brought there for the purpose of maintaining the prop in its adjusted si- tuation , until the pedestal could be raised ...
... ancient Egyptian monuments , which did not appear to con- tribute to the support of the column , but to have been brought there for the purpose of maintaining the prop in its adjusted si- tuation , until the pedestal could be raised ...
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... ancient lyre ; the character of these feathers will be better conveyed by our annexed sketch , than by description : the bill is compress- ed , the nostrils forming a longitudinal slit , cov- ered with bristle - like feathers , the legs ...
... ancient lyre ; the character of these feathers will be better conveyed by our annexed sketch , than by description : the bill is compress- ed , the nostrils forming a longitudinal slit , cov- ered with bristle - like feathers , the legs ...
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... ancient alphabet of the Syrians , called Estrangelo , it is more than probable that the Arabs de- rived it from this people , a fact which is confirmed by several historical traditions . From the very scanty remains of antiquity which ...
... ancient alphabet of the Syrians , called Estrangelo , it is more than probable that the Arabs de- rived it from this people , a fact which is confirmed by several historical traditions . From the very scanty remains of antiquity which ...
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Popular passages
Page 79 - And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
Page 212 - Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) 2.
Page 164 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 168 - The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom : a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
Page 260 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 48 - Like to the falling of a star; Or as the flights of eagles are; Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue; Or silver drops of morning dew; Or like a wind that chafes the flood; Or bubbles which on water stood; Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to night. The wind blows out; the bubble dies; The spring entombed in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past; and man forgot.
Page 39 - The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Page 240 - Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, — Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore.
Page 87 - And when it was day, they knew not the land : but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
Page 130 - ROCK of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee ! Let the water and the blood, From Thy riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its guilt and power.