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... less anxious to be minutely correct , than to say a good thing . For example , he tells us , that the Nubian is entirely free from fat , and that this is the more fortunate , as he is naked , and a publican or a ' coachman would make ...
... less anxious to be minutely correct , than to say a good thing . For example , he tells us , that the Nubian is entirely free from fat , and that this is the more fortunate , as he is naked , and a publican or a ' coachman would make ...
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... less than a century , not one of these sylvan monuments will be standing . Volney , it is charitable to sup- pose , saw them only from a great distance , when they might have the appearance he describes , as they had at first to Dr ...
... less than a century , not one of these sylvan monuments will be standing . Volney , it is charitable to sup- pose , saw them only from a great distance , when they might have the appearance he describes , as they had at first to Dr ...
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... , which they performed in the fall of the same year , occupies the concluding Letter ; but we the less regret our inability to spare room for noticing it , as it adds very little to our information , and is Travels in Egypt and Nubia . 31.
... , which they performed in the fall of the same year , occupies the concluding Letter ; but we the less regret our inability to spare room for noticing it , as it adds very little to our information , and is Travels in Egypt and Nubia . 31.
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... less facetiously indeed , but more accurately . As he draws near to Holy Land , his jokes , moreover , become more annoying , and his flippancy more palpable . He tells us , that the Red Sea is as blue as either the Black Sea or the ...
... less facetiously indeed , but more accurately . As he draws near to Holy Land , his jokes , moreover , become more annoying , and his flippancy more palpable . He tells us , that the Red Sea is as blue as either the Black Sea or the ...
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... less , in the same passions , or frame the same calculations ; -in such a combination of circumstances , it is likely that the most inno- cent discussion , or the calmest historical statement , might be selected for prosecution . It ...
... less , in the same passions , or frame the same calculations ; -in such a combination of circumstances , it is likely that the most inno- cent discussion , or the calmest historical statement , might be selected for prosecution . It ...
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Page 138 - Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance ; knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.
Page 58 - I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day.
Page 284 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Page 511 - I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father but by me.
Page 376 - Thou fool ! that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be,, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
Page 145 - Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him ; let him know that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
Page 378 - There, with its waving blade of green, The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter...
Page 225 - ... the earth, and the works that are therein, shall be burnt up...
Page 15 - I could reckon up only sixteen, and the latter are very numerous. I measured one of the largest, and found it twelve yards six inches in girth, and yet sound, and thirty-seven yards in the spread of its boughs. At about five or six yards from the ground it was divided into five limbs, each of which was equal to a great tree.
Page 336 - And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.