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... Temple Revolt of the Ten Tribes Israel's Return from Egypt The Grateful Princess Julius Cæsar and Pompey Battle of Pharsalia The World a Fleeting Show Death of Antony Death of Cleopatra The Captive Lady Death of Cæsar Catiline's ...
... Temple Revolt of the Ten Tribes Israel's Return from Egypt The Grateful Princess Julius Cæsar and Pompey Battle of Pharsalia The World a Fleeting Show Death of Antony Death of Cleopatra The Captive Lady Death of Cæsar Catiline's ...
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... Temple , Hegira , Flight of Mahomet , page 23 " 34 " 48 63 106 First Landing of Columbus , William Wallace and the two Friars , Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth , · 66 175 " 197 232 Roger Williams crossing the Pawtucket River ...
... Temple , Hegira , Flight of Mahomet , page 23 " 34 " 48 63 106 First Landing of Columbus , William Wallace and the two Friars , Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth , · 66 175 " 197 232 Roger Williams crossing the Pawtucket River ...
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... temple , while prostrated before his god Nisroch . 6. Few facts are known of the Assyrian empire ; and some have even doubted , but without reason , the existence of it . But notwithstanding the obscurity in which the history of this ...
... temple , while prostrated before his god Nisroch . 6. Few facts are known of the Assyrian empire ; and some have even doubted , but without reason , the existence of it . But notwithstanding the obscurity in which the history of this ...
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... temples , palaces , and superb structures of royalty . How incomparably more magnificent are the modern cities of London or Paris , when viewed as the abodes of men ! Here are seen , monuments of every art and sci- ence ; the ...
... temples , palaces , and superb structures of royalty . How incomparably more magnificent are the modern cities of London or Paris , when viewed as the abodes of men ! Here are seen , monuments of every art and sci- ence ; the ...
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... temple , priest and sacrifice ! One is the son of Jove , of Mars the other ; Till conqueror Death discovers them scarce men , Rolling in brutish vices , and deformed , Violent or shameful death their due reward . THE CARTHAGINIANS . 1 ...
... temple , priest and sacrifice ! One is the son of Jove , of Mars the other ; Till conqueror Death discovers them scarce men , Rolling in brutish vices , and deformed , Violent or shameful death their due reward . THE CARTHAGINIANS . 1 ...
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Page 157 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 157 - Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Page 22 - Tis pleasant through the loop-holes of retreat To peep at such a world. To see the stir Of the great Babel and not feel the crowd. To hear the roar she sends through all her gates At a safe distance, where the dying sound Falls a soft murmur on the uninjured ear.
Page 69 - THOU hast left them to their own. But, present still, though now unseen ; When brightly shines the prosperous day, Be thoughts of THEE a cloudy screen To temper the deceitful ray. And...
Page 104 - Cease, then, nor Order, Imperfection name—• Our proper bliss depends on what we blame. Know thy own point: this kind, this due degree Of blindness, weakness, Heaven bestows on thee. Submit; — in this, or any other sphere, Secure to be as blest as thou canst bear — Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour.
Page 68 - When Israel, of the Lord beloved, Out from the land of bondage came, Her father's God before her moved, An awful guide, in smoke and flame. By day, along the astonished lands, . The cloudy pillar glided slow ; By night, Arabia's crimsoned sands Returned the fiery column's glow.
Page 103 - See through this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go ! Around, how wide ! how deep extend below ! Vast chain of being ! which from God begau ; Natures ethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach ; from Infinite to thee, From thee to Nothing.
Page 349 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Page 329 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Page 256 - ... neither would he compare the friendship between him and them to a Chain, for the rain might sometimes rust it, or a tree might fall and break it; but he should consider them as the same flesh and blood with the Christians, and the same as if one man's body were to be divided into two parts.