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Page 136 - It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces towards East or West; but it is righteousness — to believe in God and the Last Day, and the Angels, and the Book, and the Messengers...
Page 140 - ... mass of details of which he can make no practical use. In these Grammars the subject is viewed from a different standpoint ; the structure of each language is carefully examined, and the principles which underlie it are carefully explained ; while apparent discrepancies and so-called irregularities are shown to be only natural euphonic and other changes. All technical terms are excluded unless their meaning and application is self-evident ; no arbitrary rules are admitted ; the old classification...
Page 169 - These gray hairs which disfigure me. We wonder not that wounds are made By an unsheathed and naked blade; The marvel is that swords should slay, While yet within their sheaths they stay.
Page 329 - That men may know that thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the most high over all the earth.
Page 168 - O'er my life these silvery locks are shedding an unwonted light, And disclosing many follies youth had hidden out of sight It is seldom that we see a metaphor so well carried out, or so pregnant with meaning as this ; — the contrast between the dark tresses of youth and the white hairs of old...
Page 154 - THE OLD MAN'S RETURN. T IKE birds of passage, after winter's days returning -*— ' To lake-land home and rest, I come now unto thee, my foster-valley, yearning For long-lost childhood's rest. Full many a sea since then from thy dear strands .... has torn me, And many a chilly year ; Full many a joy since then those far-off lands have borne me. And many a bitter tear. Here am I back once more.— Great Heaven! there Which erst my cradle bore, stands ^ dwelling The selfsame sound, bay, grove and hilly...
Page 226 - The dearest friend to me, the kindest man, The best-conditioned and unwearied spirit In doing courtesies, and one in whom The ancient Roman honour more appears Than any that draws breath in Italy.