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... history , politics , physical science , and language . Both the ear and the eye should be trained to a right appreciation of its lessons . In a valuable paper in the Magazine of the Royal Scottish Geo- graphical Society ' for October ...
... history , politics , physical science , and language . Both the ear and the eye should be trained to a right appreciation of its lessons . In a valuable paper in the Magazine of the Royal Scottish Geo- graphical Society ' for October ...
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... history and the learning displayed in them may lead others to give that attention which otherwise would not be given . The difficulty is to get such a book as this Lecture will form into the hands of the people . But that might be ...
... history and the learning displayed in them may lead others to give that attention which otherwise would not be given . The difficulty is to get such a book as this Lecture will form into the hands of the people . But that might be ...
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... history of the world than at any time before since their dispersion , or indeed in their whole history hitherto . Nor can we ignore their present in- creasing influence on the religious thought of the age as a very significant fact ...
... history of the world than at any time before since their dispersion , or indeed in their whole history hitherto . Nor can we ignore their present in- creasing influence on the religious thought of the age as a very significant fact ...
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... history , such a crisis as is noted in St Matthew's gospel : " Nation shall rise against nation , and kingdom against kingdom , and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in divers places . All these are the beginning of ...
... history , such a crisis as is noted in St Matthew's gospel : " Nation shall rise against nation , and kingdom against kingdom , and there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in divers places . All these are the beginning of ...
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... history of missions we can find few nobler men , or any one more worthy to follow the footsteps . of Henry Martyn , than Bishop French , who resigned the bishopric of Lahore that he might carry on mis- sionary work in Persia and Arabia ...
... history of missions we can find few nobler men , or any one more worthy to follow the footsteps . of Henry Martyn , than Bishop French , who resigned the bishopric of Lahore that he might carry on mis- sionary work in Persia and Arabia ...
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Page 152 - Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth...
Page 30 - TULLOCH. Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy in England in the Seventeenth Century. By JOHN TULLOCH, DD, Principal of St Mary's College in the University of St Andrews ; and one of her Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary in Scotland. Second Edition. 2 vols. 8vo, 16s.
Page 249 - The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice, even with joy and singing...
Page 68 - Surely the isles shall wait for Me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the Name of the LORD thy GOD, and to the Holy One of Israel, because He hath glorified thee.
Page 92 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Page 29 - BOOK OF THE FARM ; detailing the Labours of the Farmer, Farm-Steward, Ploughman, Shepherd, Hedger, Farm-Labourer, Field-Worker, and Cattleman. Illustrated with numerous Portraits of Animals and Engravings of Implements, and Plans of Farm Buildings. Fourth Edition. Revised, and in great part rewritten by JAMES MACDONALD, of the ' Farming World,
Page 122 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field : which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Page 210 - And sullen Moloch fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue : The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste.
Page 215 - People and realms of every tongue Dwell on his love with sweetest song; And infant voices shall proclaim Their early blessings on his name. 4...
Page 83 - Firmly relying ourselves on the truth of Christianity, and acknowledging with gratitude the solace of religion, we disclaim alike the right and the desire to impose our convictions on any of our subjects.