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... present state in the year 1690 under the reign of Adrian de Wignacourt , as may be seen from an inscription over the outer gate . We give our readers a short account of the siege of Borgo , and Senglea in which Fort St. Angelo had so ...
... present state in the year 1690 under the reign of Adrian de Wignacourt , as may be seen from an inscription over the outer gate . We give our readers a short account of the siege of Borgo , and Senglea in which Fort St. Angelo had so ...
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... present acquainted , is the native country of this rare and beautiful bird , the habits and man- ners of which are yet but little known . Consider- ed by many naturalists as allied to the pardiseæ , or birds of paradise , it exhibits in ...
... present acquainted , is the native country of this rare and beautiful bird , the habits and man- ners of which are yet but little known . Consider- ed by many naturalists as allied to the pardiseæ , or birds of paradise , it exhibits in ...
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... present day differs materially from that commonly used eight hundred years ago , dating its origin as far back as the beginning of the fourth century after the Hegira . Previous to this epoch the Arabs made use of another character ...
... present day differs materially from that commonly used eight hundred years ago , dating its origin as far back as the beginning of the fourth century after the Hegira . Previous to this epoch the Arabs made use of another character ...
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... present new city . The spacious and secure harbour of Syra , its excellent situation for commerce , and the protection which the inhabitants ( being Roman Catholics ) enjoyed from the French government , induced numbers of Greek ...
... present new city . The spacious and secure harbour of Syra , its excellent situation for commerce , and the protection which the inhabitants ( being Roman Catholics ) enjoyed from the French government , induced numbers of Greek ...
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... present . All beyond Is visionary guess - is dream - is death . Benjamin Stillingfleet . NOTHING is more unpleasing than to find that offence has been received when none was intended , and that pain has been given to those who were not ...
... present . All beyond Is visionary guess - is dream - is death . Benjamin Stillingfleet . NOTHING is more unpleasing than to find that offence has been received when none was intended , and that pain has been given to those who were not ...
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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.