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... Lake - One of the Epochs of Memory - An Image of Old Chaos— Amazement of the Spectator - Fear and Boldness - Toilsome Re- ascent - What we encountered - Second Night by the Crater- Place where Keoua's Army was overwhelmed by an Eruption ...
... Lake - One of the Epochs of Memory - An Image of Old Chaos— Amazement of the Spectator - Fear and Boldness - Toilsome Re- ascent - What we encountered - Second Night by the Crater- Place where Keoua's Army was overwhelmed by an Eruption ...
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... lakes , and a distant sand - beach . It was good to be again . by one's self . Christ's closet was once the mountain , and here , where prayer , perhaps , was never before made , it was a privilege to pour out the heart's pent- up ...
... lakes , and a distant sand - beach . It was good to be again . by one's self . Christ's closet was once the mountain , and here , where prayer , perhaps , was never before made , it was a privilege to pour out the heart's pent- up ...
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... lake of hell : A land that ever burn'd With solid , as the lake with liquid fire ; And such appear'd in hue , as when the force Of subterranean wind transports a hill Torn from Pelorus , or the shatter'd side Of thundering Etna , whose ...
... lake of hell : A land that ever burn'd With solid , as the lake with liquid fire ; And such appear'd in hue , as when the force Of subterranean wind transports a hill Torn from Pelorus , or the shatter'd side Of thundering Etna , whose ...
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... lake in the vicinity of Honolulu , and by evaporation from sea water . Chalk is also found on Oahu , and there are hills of sandstone , evidently made by sand blown from the sea - shore , and cemented by lime . It does not , however ...
... lake in the vicinity of Honolulu , and by evaporation from sea water . Chalk is also found on Oahu , and there are hills of sandstone , evidently made by sand blown from the sea - shore , and cemented by lime . It does not , however ...
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... Lake at the skiff and paddle of old Charon . The bottom of the cave is about twenty feet wide , exceedingly rough with fragments that have dropped from above , and the various shapes in which the lava cooled below . The roof is in some ...
... Lake at the skiff and paddle of old Charon . The bottom of the cave is about twenty feet wide , exceedingly rough with fragments that have dropped from above , and the various shapes in which the lava cooled below . The roof is in some ...
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Page 205 - Wisdom and spirit of the universe ! Thou soul that art the eternity of thought, That givest to forms and images a breath And everlasting motion, not in vain By day or star-light thus from my first dawn Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me The passions that build up our human soul...
Page 160 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 345 - Eternal HOPE ! when yonder spheres sublime Pealed their first notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began — but not to fade. — When all the sister planets have decayed ; When...
Page 228 - The tear forgot as soon as shed, The sunshine of the breast : Theirs buxom health, of rosy hue, Wild wit, invention ever new, And lively cheer, of vigor born ; The thoughtless day, the easy night, The spirits pure, the slumbers light, That fly th
Page 268 - I have burned part of it in the fire ; yea, also I have baked bread upon the coals thereof ; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it : and shall I make the residue thereof an abomination ? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree ? " He feedeth on ashes : a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, " Is there not a lie in my right hand...
Page 109 - There with its waving blade of green. The sea-flag streams through the silent water, And the crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush, like a banner bathed in slaughter...
Page 52 - Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight ; till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever burn'd With solid, as the lake with liquid fire...
Page 178 - So then, if while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress ; but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
Page 90 - Lastly, (and which was not least) a great hope and inward zeall they had of laying some good foundation, or at least to make some way thereunto, for the propagating and advancing the gospell of the kingdom of Christ in those remote parts of the world; yea, though they should be but even as stepping-stones unto others for the performing of so great a work.
Page 358 - In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand; for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good...