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... given rise , and after weighing the difficulties that beset it on every side , I can find no satisfactory explanation of the diverse phenomena that characterize physical Man , excepting in the doctrine of an original plurality of races ...
... given rise , and after weighing the difficulties that beset it on every side , I can find no satisfactory explanation of the diverse phenomena that characterize physical Man , excepting in the doctrine of an original plurality of races ...
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... given expres- sion , am I right , or am I wrong ? Not more firmly am I convinced of the bright and genial existence of the sun , than I am that the postulates here advanced are wholly founded in truth . Your reply , and the reasons upon ...
... given expres- sion , am I right , or am I wrong ? Not more firmly am I convinced of the bright and genial existence of the sun , than I am that the postulates here advanced are wholly founded in truth . Your reply , and the reasons upon ...
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... given it to you in this way ; but I am at your ser- vice to enter more elaborately into the discussion of the interesting subjects which seem to be now engaging your attention , should you consider it worth while to advance any new or ...
... given it to you in this way ; but I am at your ser- vice to enter more elaborately into the discussion of the interesting subjects which seem to be now engaging your attention , should you consider it worth while to advance any new or ...
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... given life to us in mercy or in wrath , are less felt , and sooner forgotten with them . In general , their ex- istence appears to participate more of sensation than reflection . To this must be ascribed their disposition to sleep when ...
... given life to us in mercy or in wrath , are less felt , and sooner forgotten with them . In general , their ex- istence appears to participate more of sensation than reflection . To this must be ascribed their disposition to sleep when ...
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... given to bold and original speculations , and was , at the same time , a sagacious observer of men and events . He owed his vast influence , second only to Washing- ton's , to his keen insight into the character of his countrymen , and ...
... given to bold and original speculations , and was , at the same time , a sagacious observer of men and events . He owed his vast influence , second only to Washing- ton's , to his keen insight into the character of his countrymen , and ...
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Page 156 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night. And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 179 - And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
Page 157 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 238 - Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea ; his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea.
Page 107 - And after six days Jesus taketh with him Peter, and James, and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves : and he was transfigured before them. And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them.
Page 109 - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
Page 242 - Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us : for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.
Page 237 - And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.
Page 108 - And immediately I was in the spirit : and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone : and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Page 242 - And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord hearkened unto the voice of a man : for the Lord fought for Israel.