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... speak it . Being like amber in its efficacy to circu- late the electric spirit of truth , it is also like amber in embalming and preserving the relics of ancient wisdom , although one is not seldom puzzled to de- cipher its contents ...
... speak it . Being like amber in its efficacy to circu- late the electric spirit of truth , it is also like amber in embalming and preserving the relics of ancient wisdom , although one is not seldom puzzled to de- cipher its contents ...
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... speak of a person as being ' frank , ' or when they use the words ' franchise , ' ' enfranchisement , ' to express civil liberties and immunities , their language here is the outgrowth , the record , and the result of great historic ...
... speak of a person as being ' frank , ' or when they use the words ' franchise , ' ' enfranchisement , ' to express civil liberties and immunities , their language here is the outgrowth , the record , and the result of great historic ...
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... speak of ' Morimo ; ' and this word , once so deeply significant , only survived now in the spells and charms of the so - called rain- makers and sorcerers , who misused it to designate a fabulous ghost , of whom they told the absurdest ...
... speak of ' Morimo ; ' and this word , once so deeply significant , only survived now in the spells and charms of the so - called rain- makers and sorcerers , who misused it to designate a fabulous ghost , of whom they told the absurdest ...
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... speak them have fallen . Thus I have read of a tribe in New Holland , which has no word to signify God , but has one to designate a process by which an unborn child may be destroyed in the bosom of its mother . And I have been informed ...
... speak them have fallen . Thus I have read of a tribe in New Holland , which has no word to signify God , but has one to designate a process by which an unborn child may be destroyed in the bosom of its mother . And I have been informed ...
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... speak , of the feelings and thoughts and experiences of a nation , yea , often of many nations , and of all which through long cen- turies they have attained to and won . It stands like the pillars of Hercules , to mark how far the ...
... speak , of the feelings and thoughts and experiences of a nation , yea , often of many nations , and of all which through long cen- turies they have attained to and won . It stands like the pillars of Hercules , to mark how far the ...
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Page 176 - That it may please Thee to give and preserve to our use the kindly fruits of the earth, so as in due time we may enjoy them ; We beseech Thee to hear us, good Lord.
Page 57 - ... inkhorn terms, smelling too much of the Latin." It is curious to observe the " words of art," as he calls them, which Philemon Holland, a voluminous translator at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century...
Page 37 - By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name. 16 But to do good and to communicate forget not: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.
Page 8 - With Additions by Professors AGASSIZ, PIERCE, and GRAY; 12 Maps and Engravings on Steel, some Coloured, and copious Index.
Page 53 - Then they that gladly received his word were baptized ; and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls ; and they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
Page 42 - And who, in time, knows whither we may vent The treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores This gain of our best glory shall be sent, T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
Page 58 - Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek; We write in sand, our language grows, And, like the tide, our work o'erflows.
Page 38 - The potent traditions of childhood are stereotyped in its verses. The power of all the griefs and trials of a man is hidden beneath its words. It is the representative of his best moments, and all that there has been about him of soft, and gentle, and pure, and penitent, and good, speaks to him for ever out of his English Bible. It is his sacred thing, which doubt has never dimmed, and controversy never soiled.
Page 55 - If sounding Words are not of our growth and Manufacture, who shall hinder me to Import them from a Foreign Country? I carry not out the Treasure of the Nation, which is never to return: but what I bring from Italy, I spend in England : Here it remains, and here it circulates ; for if the Coyn be good, it will pass from one hand to another. I Trade both with the Living and the Dead, for the enrichment of our Native Language.
Page 17 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.