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... soon be up ; and then , like the short - lived ephemera of a summer afternoon , they shall all speedily pass away , and thenceforth and forever be known only , if known at all , in fossil form ! In the present economy of Nature , there ...
... soon be up ; and then , like the short - lived ephemera of a summer afternoon , they shall all speedily pass away , and thenceforth and forever be known only , if known at all , in fossil form ! In the present economy of Nature , there ...
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... soon falls a victim to his own folly . Indeed , once really sick , from whatever cause , he not unfre- quently feels that , from that very moment , he is doomed to die — that his distressful aches and pains are past cure , and that his ...
... soon falls a victim to his own folly . Indeed , once really sick , from whatever cause , he not unfre- quently feels that , from that very moment , he is doomed to die — that his distressful aches and pains are past cure , and that his ...
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... soon as it can be admitted that the races of men were primitively created in nations ; the more so , since all of them claim to have been autocthones of the countries they inhabit . This claim is so universal that it well deserves more ...
... soon as it can be admitted that the races of men were primitively created in nations ; the more so , since all of them claim to have been autocthones of the countries they inhabit . This claim is so universal that it well deserves more ...
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... soon took the meat from the embers , wiped it hastily with his right hand upon his left arm , and tore out large half raw bits with his teeth , which I could see going entire down his meagre throat . length , when he came to the bones ...
... soon took the meat from the embers , wiped it hastily with his right hand upon his left arm , and tore out large half raw bits with his teeth , which I could see going entire down his meagre throat . length , when he came to the bones ...
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... soon removing them all from the cities and towns . A city is not , by any means , a suitable place for them . They are positively unfit for the performance of in - door duties . Sunshine is both congenial and essential to their natures ...
... soon removing them all from the cities and towns . A city is not , by any means , a suitable place for them . They are positively unfit for the performance of in - door duties . Sunshine is both congenial and essential to their natures ...
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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 93 - Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead! and darkness how profound! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
Page 114 - This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth...
Page 183 - 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 246 - 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 159 - 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 158 - 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 246 - 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 242 - Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea ; his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea.
Page 159 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.