The Youth's instructer [sic] and guardian, Volume 171853 |
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... knowledge , dis- pensed with their own rule , and admitted him to practice after his name had been but six years on their books . He forthwith rose into eminence , made money with extraordinary rapidity , and , verifying the proverb ...
... knowledge , dis- pensed with their own rule , and admitted him to practice after his name had been but six years on their books . He forthwith rose into eminence , made money with extraordinary rapidity , and , verifying the proverb ...
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... knowledge is beneath you ; for there is no intellect which cannot be sharpened , there is no memory which cannot be improved , there are no bad habits that cannot be rectified , in the plastic season of youth . There may be some of you ...
... knowledge is beneath you ; for there is no intellect which cannot be sharpened , there is no memory which cannot be improved , there are no bad habits that cannot be rectified , in the plastic season of youth . There may be some of you ...
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... knowledge of the world , —and our countryman gave proof , subsequently , that while he was well able to deceive , he could not easily be deceived , —they were equally blinded by the dissimulation of that most crafty and most heartless ...
... knowledge of the world , —and our countryman gave proof , subsequently , that while he was well able to deceive , he could not easily be deceived , —they were equally blinded by the dissimulation of that most crafty and most heartless ...
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... the starry heavens . The knowledge of the proper motion of the fixed stars is closely connected historically with the progress of the science of observation through the improvement of instru- ments and 62 MOTION OF THE FIXED STARS .
... the starry heavens . The knowledge of the proper motion of the fixed stars is closely connected historically with the progress of the science of observation through the improvement of instru- ments and 62 MOTION OF THE FIXED STARS .
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... knowledge of the motion of our own solar system through the star - filled realms of space , and , indeed , to an accurate knowledge of the direction of this motion . We should never have become acquainted with this fact , if the proper ...
... knowledge of the motion of our own solar system through the star - filled realms of space , and , indeed , to an accurate knowledge of the direction of this motion . We should never have become acquainted with this fact , if the proper ...
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Page 153 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of eternity — the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread fathomless alone.
Page 157 - The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming ? Why tarry the wheels of his chariots...
Page 549 - Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? — GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
Page 114 - Then kneeling down to Heaven's Eternal King, The saint, the father, and the husband prays; Hope 'springs exulting on triumphant wing,' That thus they all shall meet in future days, There ever bask in uncreated rays, No more to sigh or shed the bitter tear, Together hymning their Creator's praise, In such society, yet still more dear, While circling Time moves round in an eternal sphere.
Page 153 - Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Page 324 - Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought ; but •wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you : 9 Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.
Page 152 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...
Page 341 - For Tophet is ordained of old ; Yea, for the king it is prepared ; He hath made it deep and large: The pile thereof is fire and much wood ; The breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
Page 228 - Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Tho...
Page 397 - When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.