The Sunday Magazine for Family Reading, Volume 1Daldy, Isbister & Company, 1878 |
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Page 69
... present famine is already esti- mated at fifteen millions sterling , besides losses of revenue in a more or less direct manner , and that within the last hundred years sixteen famines on a large scale have occurred , twelve of them in ...
... present famine is already esti- mated at fifteen millions sterling , besides losses of revenue in a more or less direct manner , and that within the last hundred years sixteen famines on a large scale have occurred , twelve of them in ...
Page 70
... present campaign . The prospect is a dark one , and the reflections which it suggests are bitter . The tidings which reach us of the state of the armies are most melancholy . Tens of thousands of men are encamped on ground which the ...
... present campaign . The prospect is a dark one , and the reflections which it suggests are bitter . The tidings which reach us of the state of the armies are most melancholy . Tens of thousands of men are encamped on ground which the ...
Page 71
... present day , to almost every form of its principal passages : — | THROUGH A NEEDLE'S EYE . BY HESBA STRETTON , AUTHOR. " I. China is by far the largest heathen country in the world . Including its dependencies , it embraces a territory ...
... present day , to almost every form of its principal passages : — | THROUGH A NEEDLE'S EYE . BY HESBA STRETTON , AUTHOR. " I. China is by far the largest heathen country in the world . Including its dependencies , it embraces a territory ...
Page 91
... present faculties . We see indeed that there are in the physical world certain laws which must have their inevitable effects . We see too that certain races of mankind are indolent and improvident , and that the results to them must be ...
... present faculties . We see indeed that there are in the physical world certain laws which must have their inevitable effects . We see too that certain races of mankind are indolent and improvident , and that the results to them must be ...
Page 92
... present famine , but with other famines that are likely to occur . And , once more , we may say with truth that the Divine enabling power is , to a great extent , present with us . Our engineering skill , our industrial experience ...
... present famine , but with other famines that are likely to occur . And , once more , we may say with truth that the Divine enabling power is , to a great extent , present with us . Our engineering skill , our industrial experience ...
Common terms and phrases
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Popular passages
Page 292 - For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Page 129 - It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Page 272 - This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Page 165 - Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
Page 183 - For the needy shall not always be forgotten : the expectation of the poor shall not perish for ever.
Page 88 - Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up...
Page 300 - Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands. 26 They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed...
Page 518 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Page 345 - I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, And floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, And my blessing upon thine offspring: And they shall spring up as among the grass, As willows by the water courses.
Page 100 - Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah ; They shall not lament for him, saying, Ah my brother ! or, Ah sister ! they shall not lament for him, saying, Ah lord ! or, Ah his glory ! He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.