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... soon be up ; and then , like the short - lived ephemera of a summer afternoon , they shall all speedily pass away , and thenceforth and forever be known only , if known at all , in fossil form ! In the present economy of Nature , there ...
... soon be up ; and then , like the short - lived ephemera of a summer afternoon , they shall all speedily pass away , and thenceforth and forever be known only , if known at all , in fossil form ! In the present economy of Nature , there ...
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... soon falls a victim to his own folly . Indeed , once really sick , from whatever cause , he not unfre- quently feels that , from that very moment , he is doomed to die - that his distressful aches and pains are past cure , and that his ...
... soon falls a victim to his own folly . Indeed , once really sick , from whatever cause , he not unfre- quently feels that , from that very moment , he is doomed to die - that his distressful aches and pains are past cure , and that his ...
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... soon as it can be admitted that the races of men were primitively created in nations ; the more so , since all of them claim to have been autocthones of the countries they inhabit . This claim is so universal that it well deserves more ...
... soon as it can be admitted that the races of men were primitively created in nations ; the more so , since all of them claim to have been autocthones of the countries they inhabit . This claim is so universal that it well deserves more ...
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... soon took the meat from the embers , wiped it hastily with his right hand upon his left arm , and tore out large half raw bits with his teeth , which I could see going entire down his meagre throat . length , when he came to the bones ...
... soon took the meat from the embers , wiped it hastily with his right hand upon his left arm , and tore out large half raw bits with his teeth , which I could see going entire down his meagre throat . length , when he came to the bones ...
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... soon removing them all from the cities and towns . A city is not , by any means , a suitable place for them . They are positively unfit for the performance of in - door duties . Sunshine is both congenial and essential to their natures ...
... soon removing them all from the cities and towns . A city is not , by any means , a suitable place for them . They are positively unfit for the performance of in - door duties . Sunshine is both congenial and essential to their natures ...
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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.