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... pure The traffic , which bids them endure The toil of crossing desert plains ; All merchandize adds to their gains , Das cistenrös- Cisto ; Port . E'en human slaves where such are prized . Merchants may ever seek their own , Nor wish ...
... pure The traffic , which bids them endure The toil of crossing desert plains ; All merchandize adds to their gains , Das cistenrös- Cisto ; Port . E'en human slaves where such are prized . Merchants may ever seek their own , Nor wish ...
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... pure stream of Divine truth ; and this too by means of some whose duty it was to preserve its integrity , but who thus became manifest as the ministers of Satan , " transformed as the ministers of righteousness . " THE COTTON - PLANT ...
... pure stream of Divine truth ; and this too by means of some whose duty it was to preserve its integrity , but who thus became manifest as the ministers of Satan , " transformed as the ministers of righteousness . " THE COTTON - PLANT ...
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... Pure Myrrh Sweet Cinnamon Sweet Calamus Cassia • one - third . one - sixth . one - sixth . one - third . The These were 66 compounded after the art of the apo- thecary , " " into an oil of holy ointment , " by adding thereto one hin ...
... Pure Myrrh Sweet Cinnamon Sweet Calamus Cassia • one - third . one - sixth . one - sixth . one - third . The These were 66 compounded after the art of the apo- thecary , " " into an oil of holy ointment , " by adding thereto one hin ...
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... pure whiteness in connection with it . The great naturalist Pliny reckons it as the next in excellence to the rose . In the East it has ever been esteemed as Thomson emblematic of the most perfect purity . It is a favourite with the ...
... pure whiteness in connection with it . The great naturalist Pliny reckons it as the next in excellence to the rose . In the East it has ever been esteemed as Thomson emblematic of the most perfect purity . It is a favourite with the ...
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... pure and thornless pillow . " We see , from the universality of this sentiment in connection with the Lily , how fitly it is chosen by Solomon , in the Canticles , to express the notion of the most exalted purity . " As the lily among ...
... pure and thornless pillow . " We see , from the universality of this sentiment in connection with the Lily , how fitly it is chosen by Solomon , in the Canticles , to express the notion of the most exalted purity . " As the lily among ...
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Aaron's rod Abimelech abundance Almond-tree aloes Anise appear Arabia Arabs barley beautiful bitter blessed bloom blossom Box-tree Bramble branches bread Calamus Cassia Celsius chabazzeleth colour corn cultivated doth Dove's Dung Ebony Egypt Egyptians flax flowers fragrance fruit Galbanum gardens gather grain green ground grow hath heart heaven Hebrew height Holy Hyssop incense Isaiah Israel Israelites Ital Jews Jonah Jonquil Kikayon kinds king ladanum land leaves Lentils Lily LORD manna Martagon Lily mentioned Mustard Myrtle narcissus o'er odour pale Palestine perfume plant Pomegranate prophet reed rendered root Rosa damascena Rose Russ says Scarlet Scriptures seeds shalt shittah-tree shrub Solomon Song of Solomon soul sown species stem Storax substance Swed sweet Syria tabernacle tares thee thorns Thou hast translated tree unto verse wheat whence wicked wild wilderness wood word wormwood yellow yields
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Page 89 - Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night: and should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?
Page 135 - THE groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave. And spread the roof above them, — ere he framed The lofty vault, to gather and roll back The sound of anthems ; in the darkling wood, Amidst the cool and silence, he knelt down, And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks And supplication.
Page 23 - ... when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low, also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail...
Page 150 - When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys : I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
Page 10 - Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
Page 178 - Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart Could have recover'd greenness ? It was gone Quite under ground ; as flowers depart To see their mother-root, when they have blown ; Where they together, All the hard weather, Dead to the world, keep house unknown.
Page 89 - And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
Page 81 - God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills ; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates ; a land of oil olive, and honey...
Page 168 - But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God : these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Page 152 - The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir-tree, the pine-tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary ; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.