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... spirit and ardent style . Its contents are comprehensive and instructive , embracing a great variety of statistical information , and abounding with valuable suggestions . We at once proceed to condense portions of it , as our limits ...
... spirit and ardent style . Its contents are comprehensive and instructive , embracing a great variety of statistical information , and abounding with valuable suggestions . We at once proceed to condense portions of it , as our limits ...
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... spirit of research so characteristic of the great navigator Cabral . After two or three days beating against contrary winds , a landing was effected on the 8th of May , 1444 ; which , being the festival of the Arch - angel Michael ...
... spirit of research so characteristic of the great navigator Cabral . After two or three days beating against contrary winds , a landing was effected on the 8th of May , 1444 ; which , being the festival of the Arch - angel Michael ...
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... spirit that became quite ludicrous in such persons . In these interviews , he states that invariably he found a marked curiosity to hear of worldly pleasures ; and flattery , however exag- gerated , was never misplaced , but fondly ...
... spirit that became quite ludicrous in such persons . In these interviews , he states that invariably he found a marked curiosity to hear of worldly pleasures ; and flattery , however exag- gerated , was never misplaced , but fondly ...
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... spirit , united to such taste and talent in writing , as to render the volume extremely interesting and satisfactory . The work contains several lithographic views , taken from certain parts of some of the islands described , and , as ...
... spirit , united to such taste and talent in writing , as to render the volume extremely interesting and satisfactory . The work contains several lithographic views , taken from certain parts of some of the islands described , and , as ...
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... dis- course delivered by her in the world of spirits , before they are permitted to leave the purifying fire . " - p . 92 . Many rules and observances are prescribed , besides their creed 16 The United States and Canada .
... dis- course delivered by her in the world of spirits , before they are permitted to leave the purifying fire . " - p . 92 . Many rules and observances are prescribed , besides their creed 16 The United States and Canada .
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Page 547 - The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 438 - And behold I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven, and every thing that is in the earth shall die, but with thee will I establish My Covenant, and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons and thy wife, and thy sons
Page 439 - And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to-day and to-morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.
Page 453 - By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.
Page 278 - And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them ; and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them ; Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not ; for of such is the kingdom of God.
Page 472 - After proceeding some distance, we came to an open glade on the skirts of the forest. Here our leader halted, and then advanced quietly to a low bush, on the top of which I perceived a piece of honey-comb. This I found was the bait or lure for the wild bees. Several were humming about it, and diving into its cells. When they had laden themselves with honey they would rise into the air, and dart off in a straight line, almost with the velocity of a bullet.
Page 210 - tis Death itself there dies. EPITAPH. STOP, Christian Passer-by ! — Stop, child of God, And read with gentle breast. Beneath this sod A poet lies, or that which once seem'd he. — O, lift one thought in prayer for STC ; That he who many a year with toil of breath Found death in life, may here find life in death ! Mercy for praise — to be forgiven for fame He ask'd, and hoped, through Christ. Do thou the same ! 9th November, 1833.
Page 445 - Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay and was fast asleep.
Page 196 - But when all is past, it is humbling to tread O'er the weltering field of the tombless dead, And see worms of the earth, and fowls of the air, Beasts of the forest, all gathering there ; All regarding man as their prey, All rejoicing in his decay.
Page 472 - ... same direction, stumbling along over twisted roots and fallen trees, with their eyes turned up to the sky. In this way they traced the honey-laden bees to their hive, in the hollow trunk of a blasted oak, where, after buzzing about for a moment, they entered a hole about sixty feet from the ground.