The Saturday Magazine, Volumes 16-17John William Parker, 1840 |
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... manner ; for the earliest ships or boats were nothing else than rafts , or a col- lection of beams and planks bound together , over which were by the Latins rates ; and it is known , from the testimony of placed deals . By the Greeks ...
... manner ; for the earliest ships or boats were nothing else than rafts , or a col- lection of beams and planks bound together , over which were by the Latins rates ; and it is known , from the testimony of placed deals . By the Greeks ...
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... manner of ghosts in old romances , than the real creaking doors of other days , -and the graver and greater boast of this the nine- teenth century , steam itself : power in the very ab- stract and essence , susceptible of infinite uses ...
... manner of ghosts in old romances , than the real creaking doors of other days , -and the graver and greater boast of this the nine- teenth century , steam itself : power in the very ab- stract and essence , susceptible of infinite uses ...
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... manner of dress rendered such applications far more necessary in their case than they can be with us . The loose robes of the Greeks and Romans afforded them but little protection from the air , and they would have been exposed to the ...
... manner of dress rendered such applications far more necessary in their case than they can be with us . The loose robes of the Greeks and Romans afforded them but little protection from the air , and they would have been exposed to the ...
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... manner it fares with those , who have steadily and religiously pursued the course which heaven pointed out to them . We shall sometimes find by their conversation towards the end of their days , that they are filled with hope , and ...
... manner it fares with those , who have steadily and religiously pursued the course which heaven pointed out to them . We shall sometimes find by their conversation towards the end of their days , that they are filled with hope , and ...
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... manner similar to that which is constantly in progress at the present day , in the beds of rivers , lakes , and in the ocean . In most instances the water carries down sand , clay , and other sedimentary matter , which sinks to the ...
... manner similar to that which is constantly in progress at the present day , in the beds of rivers , lakes , and in the ocean . In most instances the water carries down sand , clay , and other sedimentary matter , which sinks to the ...
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Page 52 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 132 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 6 - I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphim : each one had six wings ; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said: — " Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts : the whole earth is full of His glory.
Page 119 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
Page 122 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 59 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Page 172 - Here the gray smooth trunks Of ash, or lime, or beech, distinctly shine, Within the twilight of their distant shades ; There, lost behind a rising ground, the wood Seems sunk, and shorten'd to its topmost boughs. No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar...
Page 46 - PANSIES, Lilies, Kingcups, Daisies, Let them live upon their praises ; Long as there's a sun that sets Primroses will have their glory ; Long as there are Violets, They will have a place in story : There's a flower that shall be mine, Tis the little Celandine.
Page 11 - geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy...
Page 59 - And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.