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... ancient times , and yet not so necessarily connected with them as to make its position dangerous . It had enough of mountain , and stream , and lake , and sea , to render it complete in its own resources . It admitted of easy defence ...
... ancient times , and yet not so necessarily connected with them as to make its position dangerous . It had enough of mountain , and stream , and lake , and sea , to render it complete in its own resources . It admitted of easy defence ...
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... ancients " the wool of trees ; " and , although it differs greatly in its properties from the animal fleece , the term is still retained . The Germans call it baumwolle , or tree- wool , and the French coton en laine , which answers to ...
... ancients " the wool of trees ; " and , although it differs greatly in its properties from the animal fleece , the term is still retained . The Germans call it baumwolle , or tree- wool , and the French coton en laine , which answers to ...
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... ancient times . They include Bezetha and Mount Calvary . Bezetha was added in the time of Herod and Pilate ; and Mount Calvary , which now groans beneath the weight of monastic piles , was probably open ground , cultivated for gardens ...
... ancient times . They include Bezetha and Mount Calvary . Bezetha was added in the time of Herod and Pilate ; and Mount Calvary , which now groans beneath the weight of monastic piles , was probably open ground , cultivated for gardens ...
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... ancient times attempts were made to propel vessels by steam . A specimen , or model , of a toy steam - engine was described by a Greek of Alexandria more than a century before the Christian era ; and this pos- sibly afforded hints to ...
... ancient times attempts were made to propel vessels by steam . A specimen , or model , of a toy steam - engine was described by a Greek of Alexandria more than a century before the Christian era ; and this pos- sibly afforded hints to ...
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... ancient Egyptians . That they were not acquainted with cotton seems the substance whereof they were made growing upon trees ; and this is indeed flax , or rather something much whiter and finer than flax . They wear shirts of the same ...
... ancient Egyptians . That they were not acquainted with cotton seems the substance whereof they were made growing upon trees ; and this is indeed flax , or rather something much whiter and finer than flax . They wear shirts of the same ...
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Page 264 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 236 - I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Page 178 - O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
Page 2 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
Page 134 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not ; in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Page 2 - I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; that then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.
Page 95 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 291 - I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house. Also I had great possessions of great and small cattle, above all that were in Jerusalem before me. I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings ; and of the provinces I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts ; so I was great and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem.
Page 601 - And the man of God said, Where fell it ? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.