The Saturday Magazine, Volume 1J. W. Parker, 1833 |
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... height , the whole range would be entirely covered with water . The darkness of the night prevented any thing being seen beyond the spot upon which they stood , and this was continually decreasing by the successive encroachments of each ...
... height , the whole range would be entirely covered with water . The darkness of the night prevented any thing being seen beyond the spot upon which they stood , and this was continually decreasing by the successive encroachments of each ...
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... height and width from age to age . Buildings constructed with arches of this description are usually called Gothic , a name given to them originally as a term of reproach , because they were supposed formerly to be the remains of the ...
... height and width from age to age . Buildings constructed with arches of this description are usually called Gothic , a name given to them originally as a term of reproach , because they were supposed formerly to be the remains of the ...
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... height of the trunk , only about four yards one foot . The inside quite decayed ; and when the writer saw it , a cow and a sheep had sheltered themselves within it . The head was very round and flourishing . Martyn mentions Fisher's oak ...
... height of the trunk , only about four yards one foot . The inside quite decayed ; and when the writer saw it , a cow and a sheep had sheltered themselves within it . The head was very round and flourishing . Martyn mentions Fisher's oak ...
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... height ; or , perhaps , the voice of the muleteer admonishing some tardy or wandering animal , or chaunting , at the full stretch of his lungs , some traditionary ballad . At length you see the mules slowly winding along the cragged ...
... height ; or , perhaps , the voice of the muleteer admonishing some tardy or wandering animal , or chaunting , at the full stretch of his lungs , some traditionary ballad . At length you see the mules slowly winding along the cragged ...
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... height of the pestilence , ten or twelve thousand people did not wait for a judicial sentence , but thern- died daily . In Mohammedan countries , on the great selves massacred the Israelites . They were heaped roads , and in the ...
... height of the pestilence , ten or twelve thousand people did not wait for a judicial sentence , but thern- died daily . In Mohammedan countries , on the great selves massacred the Israelites . They were heaped roads , and in the ...
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Page 34 - And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Page 106 - ... the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, hast thou not glorified.
Page 226 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel, And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Page 117 - SWEET Day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky, The dew shall weep thy fall to-night ; For thou must die. Sweet Rose, whose hue angry and brave Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My Music shows ye have your closes, And all must die. Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like...
Page 65 - For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
Page 15 - Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 106 - In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace : and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Page 44 - And Jesse took an ass laden with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son unto Saul.
Page 152 - HOW happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armour is his honest thought, And simple truth his utmost skill...
Page 192 - Thus the ideas, as well as children, of our youth, often die before us: and our minds represent to us those tombs to which we are approaching; where, though the brass and marble remain, yet the inscriptions are effaced by time, and the imagery moulders away.