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... stone and stream ; and all that affection treasured up in the memory was more or less con- nected with the sphere of ... stones . The rocks are principally of grey limestone , and they contributed greatly towards the sustenance of a ...
... stone and stream ; and all that affection treasured up in the memory was more or less con- nected with the sphere of ... stones . The rocks are principally of grey limestone , and they contributed greatly towards the sustenance of a ...
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... of various heights . These cliffs are formed of a stone called basalt , which rises up to a great height , in the shape of lofty pillars . In many parts of the coast these pillars have yielded to the action of the sea. 8 THE HOME FRIEND .
... of various heights . These cliffs are formed of a stone called basalt , which rises up to a great height , in the shape of lofty pillars . In many parts of the coast these pillars have yielded to the action of the sea. 8 THE HOME FRIEND .
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... stones , and favour the dust thereof . " Though now de- graded and defiled , ruined and desolate , we cannot forget that Zion was once the chosen mountain of Jehovah , the very perfection of beauty , and joy of the whole earth . From ...
... stones , and favour the dust thereof . " Though now de- graded and defiled , ruined and desolate , we cannot forget that Zion was once the chosen mountain of Jehovah , the very perfection of beauty , and joy of the whole earth . From ...
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... stone had been quarried and removed ; the refuse stone lay in piles , and the excavations showed that large quantities had been procured . The face of the high ridge , or kind of table - land , over which we now passed , was almost ...
... stone had been quarried and removed ; the refuse stone lay in piles , and the excavations showed that large quantities had been procured . The face of the high ridge , or kind of table - land , over which we now passed , was almost ...
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... stones of a flour - mill . " In 1809 the fertility of his inventive powers was shown by a beautiful solution of a difficult problem laid before him by a water company at Glasgow , who , after establishing their works upon one side of ...
... stones of a flour - mill . " In 1809 the fertility of his inventive powers was shown by a beautiful solution of a difficult problem laid before him by a water company at Glasgow , who , after establishing their works upon one side of ...
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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.