The Monthly Repository & Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 1F. S. Wiggins, 1831 |
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... once splen- did city . The city stood in one of the finest plains of the east ; twenty leagues long by six leagues broad ; and within the compass of this plain were more than one thousand villages , adorned with beautiful gardens ...
... once splen- did city . The city stood in one of the finest plains of the east ; twenty leagues long by six leagues broad ; and within the compass of this plain were more than one thousand villages , adorned with beautiful gardens ...
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... once given , is long , and in a majority of cases always re- tained and to put the subject in one other point of view , when we consider that the mother's influence , which next to the influence of heaven itself , is the best and ...
... once given , is long , and in a majority of cases always re- tained and to put the subject in one other point of view , when we consider that the mother's influence , which next to the influence of heaven itself , is the best and ...
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... once in twenty - five days , fourteen hours , and eight minutes , the time in which he performs a complete revolution . Dr. Herschel imagined that these dark spots on the Sun , are mountains upon its surface . He says , that in August ...
... once in twenty - five days , fourteen hours , and eight minutes , the time in which he performs a complete revolution . Dr. Herschel imagined that these dark spots on the Sun , are mountains upon its surface . He says , that in August ...
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other boys . He did not even fear to say once , in the presence of the whole crew , " If this little man con- tinues to conduct himself with so much valour and prudence , I have no doubt of his obtaining a place much above that which I ...
other boys . He did not even fear to say once , in the presence of the whole crew , " If this little man con- tinues to conduct himself with so much valour and prudence , I have no doubt of his obtaining a place much above that which I ...
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... once in the full possession of power , like Pallas , from the brow of the infidel deity . It may flash out like a comet in the starry heaven of intellect - dazzling and flaming for a moment , but it will leave no traces of its path , no ...
... once in the full possession of power , like Pallas , from the brow of the infidel deity . It may flash out like a comet in the starry heaven of intellect - dazzling and flaming for a moment , but it will leave no traces of its path , no ...
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ancient animal appears Areopagus Assyrian atmosphere Babylon beautiful body breath bright called character clouds Coragus dark death Dioxippus distance dwelling earth ecliptic elevated Entertaining Knowledge father feel feet female flowers friends globe glory Greece habits hand happy hath heart heaven height HENRY KIRKE WHITE hope human hundred inhabitants insects interesting king kingdom Lamprocles land LIBRARY OF Entertaining light live looked LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Lycurgus miles mind monarch Moon mother motion mountains nature never night Nineveh Northend o'er object observed ocean Paraguay Persian persons pleasure present Rehoboam reign render rise river rocks ruins Sadducees says scene Scythians seen Semiramis smile sorrow soul Sparta species spirit stars surface sweet tears temple TEN LOST TRIBES thee thine thing thou thought thousand tion virtue young youth
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Page 340 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 237 - And the Lord said, I will destroy man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth ; both man and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Page 132 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Page 320 - How manifold are thy works, O Lord ! In wisdom hast thou made them all...
Page 8 - Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language: Where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth: And their words to the end of the world.
Page 236 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled ; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Page 72 - Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Page 168 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Page 271 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world, with kings, The powerful of the earth, the wise, the good, Fair forms and hoary seers of ages past — All in one mighty sepulchre.
Page 271 - Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods; rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks, That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man!