The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volumen2Francis S. Wiggins, 1832 |
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... situation , the terrestrial scene around and beneath us , consisting of hills and plains , towns and villages , rivers and lakes - would form one of the largest objects which the eye , or even the imagination , can steadily grasp at one ...
... situation , the terrestrial scene around and beneath us , consisting of hills and plains , towns and villages , rivers and lakes - would form one of the largest objects which the eye , or even the imagination , can steadily grasp at one ...
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... situation for a city , equal in beauty , safety , and commercial advantages , to that of Constantinople . The crescent or half moon , was adopted by the Turks as their symbol after they had taken Constantinople . It was the symbol of ...
... situation for a city , equal in beauty , safety , and commercial advantages , to that of Constantinople . The crescent or half moon , was adopted by the Turks as their symbol after they had taken Constantinople . It was the symbol of ...
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... situation worthy of it , it is hardly possible to conceive a finer vegetable ornament . Its height in this country has seldom equalled the taller of the larches , though it has nearly aproached to it ; but the very air of the tree ...
... situation worthy of it , it is hardly possible to conceive a finer vegetable ornament . Its height in this country has seldom equalled the taller of the larches , though it has nearly aproached to it ; but the very air of the tree ...
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... situation , that the passing stranger may read and remember the virtues of the pious dead . For this the sculptor employs his skill , not to give life to the deceased , but to preserve the sem- blance of feature , as much as may be ...
... situation , that the passing stranger may read and remember the virtues of the pious dead . For this the sculptor employs his skill , not to give life to the deceased , but to preserve the sem- blance of feature , as much as may be ...
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... situation is the most favorable for observation . The appearance of this ring varies according to the changes that take place in our situation with respect to its plane . When the eye is exactly in the plane of the ring , it is scarcely ...
... situation is the most favorable for observation . The appearance of this ring varies according to the changes that take place in our situation with respect to its plane . When the eye is exactly in the plane of the ring , it is scarcely ...
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Página 299 - Temple of it ;" — that city from above, which hath " no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine in it ; for the glory of God doth lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
Página 18 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Página 273 - If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
Página 319 - There are- many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion ; it is this indeed which gives a value to all the rest, which sets them at work in their proper times and places, and turns them to the advantage of the person who is possessed of them. Without it, learning is pedantry, and wit impertinence; virtue itself looks like weakness ; the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors, and active to his own prejudice.
Página 406 - Caesar had his Brutus — Charles the first, his Cromwell — and George the third — (" Treason," cried the Speaker — " treason, treason ", echoed from every part of the House.
Página 31 - Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole ; Till, o'er our ransomed nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
Página 61 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? thus leave Thee, native soil ! these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods ? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.
Página 79 - Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ...
Página 233 - Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
Página 249 - THERE'S beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes Can trace it midst familiar things, and through their lowly guise...