The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 43J. Limbird, 1844 Containing original essays; historical narratives, biographical memoirs, sketches of society, topographical descriptions, novels and tales, anecdotes, select extracts from new and expensive works, the spirit of the public journals, discoveries in the arts and sciences, useful domestic hints, etc. etc. etc. |
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... living . Curiosity now anxiously turns to what may be accomplished by Mr Wolff , the missionary , who has volunteered to endeavour to ascertain their fate , and if possible effect their release . The en- terprise is one of difficulty ...
... living . Curiosity now anxiously turns to what may be accomplished by Mr Wolff , the missionary , who has volunteered to endeavour to ascertain their fate , and if possible effect their release . The en- terprise is one of difficulty ...
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... living person , a body stark naked , black and hairy , a meagre and deformed countenance , and hollow and distorted eyes , which raised such compassion in them , that they prof- fered to take him into the boat ; but the rock being so ...
... living person , a body stark naked , black and hairy , a meagre and deformed countenance , and hollow and distorted eyes , which raised such compassion in them , that they prof- fered to take him into the boat ; but the rock being so ...
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... living , never suffered himself to be confined or excluded . " PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS . - The following account appears in one of the Indian papers received by the overland mail : -There has been a vast flight or flights of locusts , which ...
... living , never suffered himself to be confined or excluded . " PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS . - The following account appears in one of the Indian papers received by the overland mail : -There has been a vast flight or flights of locusts , which ...
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... living Israelite would deem it virtue to destroy the children of all Christians ! It was pretended that the young victims were put to a most cruel death , being actually crucified , in derision of the sufferings of Jesus Christ . This ...
... living Israelite would deem it virtue to destroy the children of all Christians ! It was pretended that the young victims were put to a most cruel death , being actually crucified , in derision of the sufferings of Jesus Christ . This ...
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... living evi- dence of the " grievous mercy " of the law . Punishment for Lead Stealing . - By an ordinance of Edward I , any person detected for the third time in stealing lead or silver ore from the Derbyshire mines was to have his hand ...
... living evi- dence of the " grievous mercy " of the law . Punishment for Lead Stealing . - By an ordinance of Edward I , any person detected for the third time in stealing lead or silver ore from the Derbyshire mines was to have his hand ...
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Page 402 - HOW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, And princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Page 74 - His hair is crisp and black and long, His face is like the tan ; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow : You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When the evening sun is low.
Page 36 - But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat. And surely your blood, the blood of your lives, will I require ; at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 75 - And children coming home from school Look in at the open door : They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing floor.
Page 85 - For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes : nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
Page 136 - Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living Present ! Heart within, and God o'erhead...
Page 69 - He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, And hangeth the earth upon nothing. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds ; And the cloud is not rent under them.
Page 136 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 85 - Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee ; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Page 85 - For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side : while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life. 14 But I trusted in thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my God.