Sequel to American Popular LessonsR. Lockwood, 1841 - 376 pages |
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... Soon after the confounding of language men spread over the eastern continent in various directions , but many of them forgot the true God , and imagined there might be other gods , or that men had the power of God , or that things ...
... Soon after the confounding of language men spread over the eastern continent in various directions , but many of them forgot the true God , and imagined there might be other gods , or that men had the power of God , or that things ...
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... soon after to work mira- cles , and to preach the gospel . Their first suc- cess was very great , and an interesting account of it is given in the first and second chapters of the Acts of the Apostles . They soon began to meet with ...
... soon after to work mira- cles , and to preach the gospel . Their first suc- cess was very great , and an interesting account of it is given in the first and second chapters of the Acts of the Apostles . They soon began to meet with ...
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... soon their feet her hallowed pavements prest , Not in her marble courts to rest , From pomp and shining state aloof , Their shining guide its beams withdrew ; And points their path , and points their view , To Bethlehem's rustic cots ...
... soon their feet her hallowed pavements prest , Not in her marble courts to rest , From pomp and shining state aloof , Their shining guide its beams withdrew ; And points their path , and points their view , To Bethlehem's rustic cots ...
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... Soon after the establishment of the Turkish dominion , the pasha invited the chief of them to a great entertainment in his palace , and treacherously murdered them . The remnant of the Mamelukes retreated to Dongola , and after- wards ...
... Soon after the establishment of the Turkish dominion , the pasha invited the chief of them to a great entertainment in his palace , and treacherously murdered them . The remnant of the Mamelukes retreated to Dongola , and after- wards ...
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... soon as it was finished , and it is related that the infatuated Xerxes caused the strait to be beaten with stripes , and fetters to be thrown into it , to express his displeasure , adding these frantic words : " It is thus thou salt and ...
... soon as it was finished , and it is related that the infatuated Xerxes caused the strait to be beaten with stripes , and fetters to be thrown into it , to express his displeasure , adding these frantic words : " It is thus thou salt and ...
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Page 187 - In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not. He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
Page 60 - And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the son of David ; blessed is he that cometh in the Name of the Lord, Hosanna in the, highest!
Page 316 - And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him— he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won. He heard it, but he heeded not— his eyes Were with his heart, and that was far away...
Page 97 - Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews ? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
Page 97 - And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go, and search diligently for the" young child ; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.
Page 27 - And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud...
Page 89 - But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him; and he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven ; till he knew that the Most High God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
Page 44 - In it thou shalt do no manner of work, thou, and thy son and thy daughter, thy manservant, and thy maid-servant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day ; wherefore the Lord blessed the seventh day and hallowed it.
Page 103 - And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck : And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had ; and they cried before him, Bow the knee : and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Page 316 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder shower ; and now The arena swims around him : he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.