The Monthly Repository, and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volumen 1Francis S. Wiggins, 1831 |
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... heads , and a supply of provision for several days , to a certain mountain , by which , according to an ancient tra- dition current among them , they should be kept floating above the waters of a general inundation ; and as they ...
... heads , and a supply of provision for several days , to a certain mountain , by which , according to an ancient tra- dition current among them , they should be kept floating above the waters of a general inundation ; and as they ...
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... head to turn , and she fell into the sea . The father of Volney darted after her , and in five or six strokes caught her by her frock . Whilst he swam with one hand to regain the vessel , and with the other held the child close to his ...
... head to turn , and she fell into the sea . The father of Volney darted after her , and in five or six strokes caught her by her frock . Whilst he swam with one hand to regain the vessel , and with the other held the child close to his ...
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... head , but I could . tell them all over by their names ; and although I may not look again , dear Ellen , upon the glorious sunset sky , that we have watched together so often , yet I know how the clouds are sprinkled , in their golden ...
... head , but I could . tell them all over by their names ; and although I may not look again , dear Ellen , upon the glorious sunset sky , that we have watched together so often , yet I know how the clouds are sprinkled , in their golden ...
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... head of nations , are doing homage to his genius . The proudest and the loveliest of earth , the terrible in war , and the mighty in council , are bending like worshippers at the shrine of his intellect . Romantic as this may seem ...
... head of nations , are doing homage to his genius . The proudest and the loveliest of earth , the terrible in war , and the mighty in council , are bending like worshippers at the shrine of his intellect . Romantic as this may seem ...
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... head , aspiring scales the sky , - Prostrate in dust that lofty head must lie . The soul alone ( the precious boon of Heaven ) Can fearless brave of time and fate the rage , When to thy deep foundations thou art riven , Yea , Egypt ...
... head , aspiring scales the sky , - Prostrate in dust that lofty head must lie . The soul alone ( the precious boon of Heaven ) Can fearless brave of time and fate the rage , When to thy deep foundations thou art riven , Yea , Egypt ...
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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.