The Metropolitan, Volumen1James Cochrane and Company, 1831 |
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... tion of the axis of the earth , our dials not showing a variation of the hours , but an equal division of the time . Our gnomonics are there- " fore quite different from those of the ancients . " " Herodotus , " Ideler continues , that ...
... tion of the axis of the earth , our dials not showing a variation of the hours , but an equal division of the time . Our gnomonics are there- " fore quite different from those of the ancients . " " Herodotus , " Ideler continues , that ...
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tion of ideas , rendered necessary by the times in which he wrote , than in the mere shortness of his affected sentences . How many verbose definitions are less expressive , than the simple term to be defined ? What speaking can be ...
tion of ideas , rendered necessary by the times in which he wrote , than in the mere shortness of his affected sentences . How many verbose definitions are less expressive , than the simple term to be defined ? What speaking can be ...
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... tion , we have still a chance of our readers yielding to the illusion , and giving us credit for the same novelty which is found in the title - page . The present conjuncture too is favorable to a new undertaking , be- cause every thing ...
... tion , we have still a chance of our readers yielding to the illusion , and giving us credit for the same novelty which is found in the title - page . The present conjuncture too is favorable to a new undertaking , be- cause every thing ...
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... tion of a martyr . Time , they say , wears out all sorrows ; but his art must exceed my faith , if he can ever efface the sorrow of good Calas broken on the wheel ! The effect on me was such as I cannot express . It is so deeply ...
... tion of a martyr . Time , they say , wears out all sorrows ; but his art must exceed my faith , if he can ever efface the sorrow of good Calas broken on the wheel ! The effect on me was such as I cannot express . It is so deeply ...
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... tion of Mantua , the birth - place of the poet Virgil , the conqueror ordered an obelisk to be erected to the memory of the bard ; and not only exempted the inhabitants from any contributions , but expressed a wish that they might be ...
... tion of Mantua , the birth - place of the poet Virgil , the conqueror ordered an obelisk to be erected to the memory of the bard ; and not only exempted the inhabitants from any contributions , but expressed a wish that they might be ...
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Página 194 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Página 196 - And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
Página 203 - He sendeth the springs into the valleys, Which run among the hills. They give drink to every beast of the fie'ld: The wild asses quench their thirst.
Página 195 - Judah is a lion's whelp ; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up : he stooped P 3 down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion ; who shall rouse him up ? — The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come : and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Página 196 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Página 201 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Página 202 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Página 192 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: For I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt. 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Página 200 - Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin — and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written.
Página 203 - Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.