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... distinguished by their powers both of body and mind . I believe there are , as I see to be the case in the races of other animals . - THOMAS JEFFERSON . I would not dwell with any particular emphasis upon the sentiment , which I ...
... distinguished by their powers both of body and mind . I believe there are , as I see to be the case in the races of other animals . - THOMAS JEFFERSON . I would not dwell with any particular emphasis upon the sentiment , which I ...
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... distinguished rag - picker , or something else equally honorable and aristocratic . We have no such ancient reckonings in the United States , and it is only by the aid of Pintoism and Munchausenism that they can count so far back in ...
... distinguished rag - picker , or something else equally honorable and aristocratic . We have no such ancient reckonings in the United States , and it is only by the aid of Pintoism and Munchausenism that they can count so far back in ...
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... distinguished countrymen , who is , perhaps , ( or was while he lived , ) the very best authority extant upon the subjects of Anthropology and Ethnology , is quoted in Nott and Gliddon's " Types of Mankind , " page 305 , as having said ...
... distinguished countrymen , who is , perhaps , ( or was while he lived , ) the very best authority extant upon the subjects of Anthropology and Ethnology , is quoted in Nott and Gliddon's " Types of Mankind , " page 305 , as having said ...
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... distinguished of our living naturalists , and at present Professor of Zoology in the University of Halle , in Germany . He spent about fourteen months of the years 1850 and 1851 in Brazil , and has just submitted to the press the second ...
... distinguished of our living naturalists , and at present Professor of Zoology in the University of Halle , in Germany . He spent about fourteen months of the years 1850 and 1851 in Brazil , and has just submitted to the press the second ...
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... distinguished as a Naturalist - a man who , regardless of pre - conceived errors on the part of the multitude , seeks to establish , before all the world , the eternal truth of things - is Prof. Agassiz , who , in Nott and Gliddon's ...
... distinguished as a Naturalist - a man who , regardless of pre - conceived errors on the part of the multitude , seeks to establish , before all the world , the eternal truth of things - is Prof. Agassiz , who , in Nott and Gliddon's ...
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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.