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... receiving their pay , in the mean time , in silver . A sensible expedient analogous to a return to cash payments . An imperial edict refers to a report concern- ing the malversations in office prevalent among the clerks and official ...
... receiving their pay , in the mean time , in silver . A sensible expedient analogous to a return to cash payments . An imperial edict refers to a report concern- ing the malversations in office prevalent among the clerks and official ...
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... receiving monthly wages , and by ' performing menial duties to the idols . ' But it appears from a subsequent passage * , that the Numbi are an inferior class of the Vaidika , who act in the temples as Pujaris . The second error into ...
... receiving monthly wages , and by ' performing menial duties to the idols . ' But it appears from a subsequent passage * , that the Numbi are an inferior class of the Vaidika , who act in the temples as Pujaris . The second error into ...
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... received as a Rishi ( saint ) on account of his extensive knowledge and the purity of his character . Having arrived in India , in the early ages of their history , he is reported to have been the bosom friend of Garga , the sanctified ...
... received as a Rishi ( saint ) on account of his extensive knowledge and the purity of his character . Having arrived in India , in the early ages of their history , he is reported to have been the bosom friend of Garga , the sanctified ...
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... received ! his death - warning . ' 6 He loosed a chain , which disappeared into the ground with a hollow noise . A huge mass of rock slowly rolled back , and shewed a depth of darkness through which our twinkling torches scarcely made ...
... received ! his death - warning . ' 6 He loosed a chain , which disappeared into the ground with a hollow noise . A huge mass of rock slowly rolled back , and shewed a depth of darkness through which our twinkling torches scarcely made ...
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... received from intercourse with them . But the erudite genius of the Author suggests , that the reigns of the ten antediluvian kings of Babylon were mere inventions , intended to give to the learned an allegorical account of certain ...
... received from intercourse with them . But the erudite genius of the Author suggests , that the reigns of the ten antediluvian kings of Babylon were mere inventions , intended to give to the learned an allegorical account of certain ...
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Page 209 - ... .which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places., (far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named not only in this world, but also in that which is to come,) and hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.
Page 373 - ... thousand spears in rest, A thousand knights are pressing close behind the snow-white crest; And in they burst, and on they rushed, while, like a guiding star, Amidst the thickest carnage blazed the helmet of Navarre. Now, God be praised, the day is ours. Mayenne hath turned his rein.
Page 375 - Give back the lost and lovely ! — those for whom The place was kept at board and hearth so long ! The prayer went up through midnight's breathless gloom, And the vain yearning woke 'midst festal song ! Hold fast thy buried isles, thy towers o'erthrown — But all is not thine own.
Page 520 - God hath made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.
Page 199 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance ? Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, or being His counsellor hath taught Him?
Page 574 - And now, from forth the frowning sky, From the Heaven's topmost height, I heard a voice — the awful voice Of the blood-avenging sprite : — ' Thou guilty man ! take up thy dead And hide it from my sight...
Page 572 - TWAS in the prime of summer time, An evening calm and cool, And four-and-twenty happy boys Came bounding out of school : There were some that ran and some that leapt, Like troutlets in a pool. Away they sped with gamesome minds, And souls untouched by sin; To a level mead they came, and there They drave the wickets in : Pleasantly shone the setting sun Over the town of Lynn. Like sportive deer they coursed about, And shouted as they ran, — Turning to mirth all things of earth, As only boyhood can;...
Page 373 - Ho ! maidens of Vienna ; Ho ! matrons of Lucerne ; Weep, weep, and rend your hair for those who never shall return. Ho! Philip, send, for charity, thy Mexican pistoles, That Antwerp monks may sing a mass for thy poor spearmen's souls.
Page 575 - With breathless speed, like a soul in chase, I took him up and ran;— There was no time to dig a grave Before the day began: In a lonesome wood, with heaps of leaves, I hid the murdered man!
Page 572 - Away they sped with gamesome minds, And souls untouched by sin; To a level mead they came, and there They drave the wickets in: Pleasantly shone the setting sun Over the town of Lynn. Like sportive deer they coursed about, And shouted as they ran, Turning to mirth all things of earth, As only boyhood can; But the Usher sat remote from all, A melancholy man!