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... succession , -correcting in the work , as they go on , what requires correction ; retrenching what is superfluous ; and supplying what is deficient ; so as to bring the whole more strictly into accordance with Mr. COLERIDGE's great idea ...
... succession , -correcting in the work , as they go on , what requires correction ; retrenching what is superfluous ; and supplying what is deficient ; so as to bring the whole more strictly into accordance with Mr. COLERIDGE's great idea ...
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... succession , -correcting in the work , as they go on , what requires correction ; retrenching what is superfluous ; and supplying what is deficient ; so as to bring the whole more strictly into accordance with Mr. COLERIDGE's great idea ...
... succession , -correcting in the work , as they go on , what requires correction ; retrenching what is superfluous ; and supplying what is deficient ; so as to bring the whole more strictly into accordance with Mr. COLERIDGE's great idea ...
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... succession of partial deluges on the surface of the globe , such as to have changed the aspect and character of many portions of its surface , in such a manner , and to such a degree , as necessarily to have obliterated all satisfactory ...
... succession of partial deluges on the surface of the globe , such as to have changed the aspect and character of many portions of its surface , in such a manner , and to such a degree , as necessarily to have obliterated all satisfactory ...
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... succession Job , otherwise called Jobab . To Job succeeded Husham , prince of Teman . After him reigned Hadad the son of Bedad , who defeated the Midianites in the field of Moab . The name of his city was Arith . The friends of Job ...
... succession Job , otherwise called Jobab . To Job succeeded Husham , prince of Teman . After him reigned Hadad the son of Bedad , who defeated the Midianites in the field of Moab . The name of his city was Arith . The friends of Job ...
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... succession from Joram , and , of course , the thirteenth in direct succession from Sem . Ismael con- tinued in this spot , where , as it has already been observed , the Arabian writers place Hagar's well , till the death of his mother ...
... succession from Joram , and , of course , the thirteenth in direct succession from Sem . Ismael con- tinued in this spot , where , as it has already been observed , the Arabian writers place Hagar's well , till the death of his mother ...
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Page 163 - Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the Sun stood still, and the Moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies...
Page 23 - And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. Chapter 3 1. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Page 390 - Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise ; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
Page 306 - Nebuchadnezzar : and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds
Page 116 - And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it : yet not ought of your work shall be diminished.
Page 23 - Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden ? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden : but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die : for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Page 358 - Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God; that ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
Page 385 - And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the Lord, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel. And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age : for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.
Page 279 - The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, To stain the pride of all glory, And to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
Page 383 - Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my life do me?