The Saturday Magazine, Volumes 16-17John William Parker, 1840 |
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... equal enjoyment of political rights . Every citizen is bound to serve for a certain period in the army , should he be chosen by lot , or to find a substitute . No citizen can remain in arrest for the space of twenty - four hours without ...
... equal enjoyment of political rights . Every citizen is bound to serve for a certain period in the army , should he be chosen by lot , or to find a substitute . No citizen can remain in arrest for the space of twenty - four hours without ...
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... equal wonder you may see The foxes fly from tree to tree ; And what they value most , so wary , These foxes in their pockets carry . There courting swains their passion prove By knocking down the girls they love . There every servant ...
... equal wonder you may see The foxes fly from tree to tree ; And what they value most , so wary , These foxes in their pockets carry . There courting swains their passion prove By knocking down the girls they love . There every servant ...
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... equal to Babylon . From the description given by the prophet Jonah we find it to have been an exceeding great city of three days ' journey , ( which must be understood probably of its circuit , ) and also that it contained " more than ...
... equal to Babylon . From the description given by the prophet Jonah we find it to have been an exceeding great city of three days ' journey , ( which must be understood probably of its circuit , ) and also that it contained " more than ...
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... equal to that of pouring out the heart to a benevolent Deity , and expressing entire resignation to His will . - LORD KAMES . HAPPINESS , though necessarily involving present pleasure , is the direct or indirect , and often the very ...
... equal to that of pouring out the heart to a benevolent Deity , and expressing entire resignation to His will . - LORD KAMES . HAPPINESS , though necessarily involving present pleasure , is the direct or indirect , and often the very ...
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... equal height , and perfectly square . The arms must hang straight but loosely ; and the palms of the hands must touch the thighs . The thumb , which is the foremost part of the hand , must be as far back as the seam of the trowsers ...
... equal height , and perfectly square . The arms must hang straight but loosely ; and the palms of the hands must touch the thighs . The thumb , which is the foremost part of the hand , must be as far back as the seam of the trowsers ...
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Page 52 - 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 132 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the Summer's rain ; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 6 - I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphim : each one had six wings ; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said: — " Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts : the whole earth is full of His glory.
Page 119 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
Page 122 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven ; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 59 - And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Page 172 - Here the gray smooth trunks Of ash, or lime, or beech, distinctly shine, Within the twilight of their distant shades ; There, lost behind a rising ground, the wood Seems sunk, and shorten'd to its topmost boughs. No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar...
Page 46 - PANSIES, Lilies, Kingcups, Daisies, Let them live upon their praises ; Long as there's a sun that sets Primroses will have their glory ; Long as there are Violets, They will have a place in story : There's a flower that shall be mine, Tis the little Celandine.
Page 11 - geology, in the magnitude and sublimity of the objects of which it treats, undoubtedly ranks, in the scale of the sciences, next to astronomy...
Page 59 - And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground.