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... walls of La Sangle were heightened by his orders , and the cannon on them brought to command the inner port at every point ; while a vast stockade , extending from Mount Coradino to the point of Sanglea was formed , by driving huge ...
... walls of La Sangle were heightened by his orders , and the cannon on them brought to command the inner port at every point ; while a vast stockade , extending from Mount Coradino to the point of Sanglea was formed , by driving huge ...
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... wall , immediate- ly facing the bridge , through which a piece of artillery was brought to play on the whole structure ... walls of La Sengle ; and at length , on the 2nd of August , the Turkish horns sounded a scalade . The Turks fought ...
... wall , immediate- ly facing the bridge , through which a piece of artillery was brought to play on the whole structure ... walls of La Sengle ; and at length , on the 2nd of August , the Turkish horns sounded a scalade . The Turks fought ...
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... walls of St. Michael ; but it was in vain that the enemy endeavoured to break through the barriers which the besieged formed with their bodies . The assault was suspended for some time , and was again re- newed after sun - set ; but ...
... walls of St. Michael ; but it was in vain that the enemy endeavoured to break through the barriers which the besieged formed with their bodies . The assault was suspended for some time , and was again re- newed after sun - set ; but ...
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... wall of a house situated in Strada Stretta and Str . Brettanica , apper- taining to the Baronessa Parisi , and at pre- sent occupied by the Judge G.B.Satariano . It is to be regretted that so few particu- lars are known concerning this ...
... wall of a house situated in Strada Stretta and Str . Brettanica , apper- taining to the Baronessa Parisi , and at pre- sent occupied by the Judge G.B.Satariano . It is to be regretted that so few particu- lars are known concerning this ...
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... wall higher , and so go on , throwing out the sand and raising the wall , till they have reached the wa- ter . Were they to adopt our method , the soil , which is remarkably light , would fall before they could possibly raise the wall ...
... wall higher , and so go on , throwing out the sand and raising the wall , till they have reached the wa- ter . Were they to adopt our method , the soil , which is remarkably light , would fall before they could possibly raise the wall ...
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Page 79 - And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
Page 212 - Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) 2.
Page 164 - 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.
Page 168 - The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom : a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
Page 260 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 48 - Like to the falling of a star; Or as the flights of eagles are; Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue; Or silver drops of morning dew; Or like a wind that chafes the flood; Or bubbles which on water stood; Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to night. The wind blows out; the bubble dies; The spring entombed in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past; and man forgot.
Page 39 - The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Page 240 - Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, — Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore.
Page 87 - And when it was day, they knew not the land : but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
Page 130 - ROCK of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee ! Let the water and the blood, From Thy riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its guilt and power.