The Monthly Repository, and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volumen 1Francis S. Wiggins, 1831 |
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... continued travelling in the de- serts of Arabia forty years , when they entered into the promised land under the conduct of Joshua , which closes the second period of ancient sacred history . The cir- cumstances which deserve particular ...
... continued travelling in the de- serts of Arabia forty years , when they entered into the promised land under the conduct of Joshua , which closes the second period of ancient sacred history . The cir- cumstances which deserve particular ...
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... continued . ) LIVES OF CELEBRATED CHILDREN.NO . I. VOLNEY BECKNER , born at Londonderry , in 1748 , and devoured by a shark at the age of twelve years . The child whom we here commemorate , had not the advantage of springing from a ...
... continued . ) LIVES OF CELEBRATED CHILDREN.NO . I. VOLNEY BECKNER , born at Londonderry , in 1748 , and devoured by a shark at the age of twelve years . The child whom we here commemorate , had not the advantage of springing from a ...
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Croesus , his son , who had been born dumb , and had so continued to that hour , from the mere impulse of natu- ral affection , seeing his father in such imminent dan- ger , suddenly cried out , " O man , kill not Crœsus ; " and continued ...
Croesus , his son , who had been born dumb , and had so continued to that hour , from the mere impulse of natu- ral affection , seeing his father in such imminent dan- ger , suddenly cried out , " O man , kill not Crœsus ; " and continued ...
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... continued many days , he was surprised that the prisoner lived so long without eating and suspecting the daughter , he watched her , and discovered that ( like the famous Xantippe , daughter of Cymon ) she nourished her pa- rent with ...
... continued many days , he was surprised that the prisoner lived so long without eating and suspecting the daughter , he watched her , and discovered that ( like the famous Xantippe , daughter of Cymon ) she nourished her pa- rent with ...
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... continued he , addressing himself to the minister , " God has sent you here to baptize these little ones , and to administer to my children the pledges of a Sa- viour's dying love . Yea , and furthermore , to bury me . " He then ...
... continued he , addressing himself to the minister , " God has sent you here to baptize these little ones , and to administer to my children the pledges of a Sa- viour's dying love . Yea , and furthermore , to bury me . " He then ...
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ancient animal appears Areopagus Assyrian atmosphere Babylon beautiful body breath bright called character clouds Coragus dark death Dioxippus distance dwelling earth ecliptic father feel feet female flowers friends gaze globe glory grave Greece habits hand happy hath heart heaven height HENRY KIRKE WHITE hope human hundred inhabitants insects interesting kingdom kings Lamprocles land LIBRARY OF Entertaining light live looked LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Lycurgus miles mind monarch Moon mother motion mountains nature never night Nineveh Northend o'er object observed ocean Paraguay Persian persons pleasure present Rehoboam reign render rise river rocks ruins Sadducees says scene Scythians seen Semiramis smile sorrow soul Sparta species spirit stars storm surface sweet tears temple TEN LOST TRIBES thee thine thing thou thought thousand tion virtue voice young youth
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Página 243 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled ; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Página 139 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Página 327 - How manifold are thy works, O Lord ! In wisdom hast thou made them all...
Página 15 - Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language: Where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth: And their words to the end of the world.
Página 79 - Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Página 175 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Página 228 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent!
Página 244 - And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Página 375 - There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. Life, in which nothing has been done or suffered to distinguish one day from another, is to him that has passed it, as if it had never been, except that he is conscious how ill he has husbanded the great deposit of his Creator.
Página 374 - With all the visionary fervor of his imagination, its fondest dreams fell short of the reality. He died in ignorance of the real grandeur of his discovery! Until his last breath, he entertained the idea that he had merely opened a new way to the old resorts of opulent commerce, and had discovered some of the wild regions of the East. He supposed Hispaniola to be the ancient Ophir, which had been visited by the ships of King Solomon, and that Cuba and Terra Firma were but remote parts of Asia.