The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 3Francis S. Wiggins, 1833 |
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... animals . The mason- bee makes her nest by an invariable rule : the model is in her mind , as it has been in the mind of her race from their first creation : they have learnt nothing by experience . But the mode in which they accomplish ...
... animals . The mason- bee makes her nest by an invariable rule : the model is in her mind , as it has been in the mind of her race from their first creation : they have learnt nothing by experience . But the mode in which they accomplish ...
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... animals now , as they did in the time of Jeremiah , who alludes to them . ( Jer . xlix . 19. ) The other remarkable streams or rivulets of Palestine are the following : viz . 1. The Arnon , which descends from the mountain of the same ...
... animals now , as they did in the time of Jeremiah , who alludes to them . ( Jer . xlix . 19. ) The other remarkable streams or rivulets of Palestine are the following : viz . 1. The Arnon , which descends from the mountain of the same ...
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... In investigating the natural history of the scriptures we find it difficult to identify some of the animals there described with any of those which are now known upon the earth . Behemoth and leviathan " hugest of. 56 The Unicorn .
... In investigating the natural history of the scriptures we find it difficult to identify some of the animals there described with any of those which are now known upon the earth . Behemoth and leviathan " hugest of. 56 The Unicorn .
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... animals whose names we meet in holy writ there is none about which a greater variety of opinions has been entertained ... animal is mentioned in the Bible . The chief characteristics of the rhinoceros , says an eminent naturalist , are ...
... animals whose names we meet in holy writ there is none about which a greater variety of opinions has been entertained ... animal is mentioned in the Bible . The chief characteristics of the rhinoceros , says an eminent naturalist , are ...
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... animal himself , com- paring it to the ass from the clumsiness of its shape . It probably did not inhabit that part of India into which Alexander penetrated , as it was nearly 300 years after , that Pompey first introduced the animal ...
... animal himself , com- paring it to the ass from the clumsiness of its shape . It probably did not inhabit that part of India into which Alexander penetrated , as it was nearly 300 years after , that Pompey first introduced the animal ...
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Page 29 - Thou shalt ° not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Page 348 - And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
Page 180 - Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green, So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Page 226 - And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up, and thrust Him out of the city, and led Him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast Him down headlong.
Page 210 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of swedt harmony.
Page 140 - It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves ; springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Page 144 - If Thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Page 57 - Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow ? or will he harrow the valleys after thee...
Page 210 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 403 - It is a happy world after all. The air, the earth, the water, teem with delighted existence. In a spring noon, or a summer evening, on whichever side I turn my eyes, myriads of happy beings crowd upon my view. " The insect youth are on the wing.