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... turning to his father , found him alone , the servants having been despatched to the woods for 66 as sets of flowery thorn , Their orchard bounds to strengthen and adorn . " Columella describes a hawthorn hedge preferable to any other ...
... turning to his father , found him alone , the servants having been despatched to the woods for 66 as sets of flowery thorn , Their orchard bounds to strengthen and adorn . " Columella describes a hawthorn hedge preferable to any other ...
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... turn to play , And all the village train , from labour free , Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree : While many a pastime circled in the shade , The young contending as the old surveyed . " Milton describes this tree as the ...
... turn to play , And all the village train , from labour free , Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree : While many a pastime circled in the shade , The young contending as the old surveyed . " Milton describes this tree as the ...
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... turn to an examination of the princi- ples to which we have referred , and endeavour to explain them fully to the reader . A work has been recently published by M. Daguerre on the history and practice of the Photogenic Drawing , which ...
... turn to an examination of the princi- ples to which we have referred , and endeavour to explain them fully to the reader . A work has been recently published by M. Daguerre on the history and practice of the Photogenic Drawing , which ...
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... turns , called forth our convers- ational powers . How much of interest and pleasure is at times crowded into the brief space of a single hour ! In a state of society , our every day duties and occupations often mould us into positions ...
... turns , called forth our convers- ational powers . How much of interest and pleasure is at times crowded into the brief space of a single hour ! In a state of society , our every day duties and occupations often mould us into positions ...
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... turns of thought , a disinterested- ness , and a baring of the bosom , if I may so speak , that are delightful to share and pleasant to reflect upon . In one place , we came to the very edge of a precipice , whose perpendicular depth ...
... turns of thought , a disinterested- ness , and a baring of the bosom , if I may so speak , that are delightful to share and pleasant to reflect upon . In one place , we came to the very edge of a precipice , whose perpendicular depth ...
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Page 388 - I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding ; And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down.
Page 63 - Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
Page 146 - For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the LORD that hath mercy on thee.
Page 35 - As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Page 330 - A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you : and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
Page 71 - And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power ; only upon himself put not forth thine hand.
Page 415 - I, even I, am he that comforteth you : who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass ; 13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth...
Page 35 - Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Page 250 - Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens...
Page 234 - And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone : and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions : and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.