Christian Examiner and Theological ReviewO. Everett, 1850 - Theology |
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... period , the English monarchy was almost shut up within its narrow islands . Wasted by civil wars , its sovereigns deposed and reinstalled , revolution following revolution , England , Scotland , and Ireland contending , not to sus ...
... period , the English monarchy was almost shut up within its narrow islands . Wasted by civil wars , its sovereigns deposed and reinstalled , revolution following revolution , England , Scotland , and Ireland contending , not to sus ...
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... periods of temporary splendor , did nothing to advance the civilization of In- dia . On the contrary , by interposing a barrier of race and religion between the rulers and the ruled , and by adding new elements of disorder , it ...
... periods of temporary splendor , did nothing to advance the civilization of In- dia . On the contrary , by interposing a barrier of race and religion between the rulers and the ruled , and by adding new elements of disorder , it ...
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... period of man's intellectual development . If this array of material things were brought into exist ence , partly at least , for the delight and study of man , Cosmos : a Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe . By ALEXANDER ...
... period of man's intellectual development . If this array of material things were brought into exist ence , partly at least , for the delight and study of man , Cosmos : a Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe . By ALEXANDER ...
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... period of his life left his impression . There is hardly a region of the globe which he has not personally explored . The plants and animals of the tropics are no strangers to his eyes , and he is equally at home beneath the constella ...
... period of his life left his impression . There is hardly a region of the globe which he has not personally explored . The plants and animals of the tropics are no strangers to his eyes , and he is equally at home beneath the constella ...
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... period of Leverrier's predicted planet was 217 years , and its mean distance 36 times the earth's distance from the sun . These as- tonishing discrepancies , so large as to destroy any iden- tity once supposed to exist between the ...
... period of Leverrier's predicted planet was 217 years , and its mean distance 36 times the earth's distance from the sun . These as- tonishing discrepancies , so large as to destroy any iden- tity once supposed to exist between the ...
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Page 370 - twixt my knees on the ground ; And no voice but was praising this Roland of mine, As I poured down his throat our last measure of wine, Which (the burgesses voted by common consent) Was no more than his due who brought good news from Ghent ROBERT BROWNING.
Page 369 - And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track, And one eye's black intelligence — ever that glance O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance; And the thick heavy spume-flakes, which aye and anon His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on. By Hasselt, Dirck groaned; and cried Joris, "Stay spur! Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her; "We'll remember at Aix...
Page 369 - Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.
Page 403 - I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame and his wheels as burning fire.
Page 368 - I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he ; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three ; " Good speed ! " cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew;
Page 307 - Therefore I will shake the heavens, And the earth shall remove out of her place, In the wrath of the Lord of hosts, And in the day of his fierce anger.
Page 310 - Behold, O My people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
Page 401 - no man knoweth the Father but the Son, and he to whom the Son revealeth him...
Page 135 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded Vessel goes : Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm : Regardless of the sweeping Whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.
Page 254 - Thy flitting form comes ghostly dim and pale, As driven by a beating storm at sea ; Thy cry is weak and scared, As if thy mates had shared The doom of us : Thy wail — What...