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... Lord , holy and true , dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth . And white robes were given unto every one of them . " Again - Revelation vii . , 9 , 13 : " A great multitude which no man could number ...
... Lord , holy and true , dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth . And white robes were given unto every one of them . " Again - Revelation vii . , 9 , 13 : " A great multitude which no man could number ...
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... Lord Bacon has assured us that " God's first creature was light . " Dryden truly tells us that " At the cheerful light The groaning ghosts and birds obscene take flight . " In " The Rape of Lucrece , " Shakspeare tells us that " Light ...
... Lord Bacon has assured us that " God's first creature was light . " Dryden truly tells us that " At the cheerful light The groaning ghosts and birds obscene take flight . " In " The Rape of Lucrece , " Shakspeare tells us that " Light ...
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... Lord Byron was enraptured with " The blue wilderness of interminable air . " Mrs. Hemans was happy in her contemplations of " The blue , deep , glorious heavens . " Addison , in the 565th number of the " Spectator , " says : " I was ...
... Lord Byron was enraptured with " The blue wilderness of interminable air . " Mrs. Hemans was happy in her contemplations of " The blue , deep , glorious heavens . " Addison , in the 565th number of the " Spectator , " says : " I was ...
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... ( Lord Kames ) in his " Elements of Criti- cism , " page 161 , says : " Nature in no particular seems more profuse of ornament , than in the beautiful coloring of her works . The flowers of plants , the furs of beasts , and the feathers ...
... ( Lord Kames ) in his " Elements of Criti- cism , " page 161 , says : " Nature in no particular seems more profuse of ornament , than in the beautiful coloring of her works . The flowers of plants , the furs of beasts , and the feathers ...
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... Lord Bacon observes , that similar in- stances of sickness and mortality happened two or three times , within his memory . There was another instance in 1750 , at the Old Bailey in London , where four Judges , several Counselors , an ...
... Lord Bacon observes , that similar in- stances of sickness and mortality happened two or three times , within his memory . There was another instance in 1750 , at the Old Bailey in London , where four Judges , several Counselors , an ...
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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 110 - 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 181 - 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 236 - Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon ; and thou, moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
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 232 - Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea ; his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea.
Page 236 - Bethhoron, that the Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them, unto Azekah, and they died ; they were more which died with hailstones, than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
Page 110 - Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked...
Page 236 - 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.
Page 238 - For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.