The London Quarterly Review, Band 16William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison Hamilton, Adams, and Company, 1861 |
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... character of the dynasties of Manetho , or the certainty of the conclusions they draw as to the antiquity of the human race from Mr. Horner's borings in the Nile mud on the site of Memphis . It taunts the popular faith in the Bible with ...
... character of the dynasties of Manetho , or the certainty of the conclusions they draw as to the antiquity of the human race from Mr. Horner's borings in the Nile mud on the site of Memphis . It taunts the popular faith in the Bible with ...
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... characters , which , from their likeness to barbs or wedges , have been styled the Cuneiform or arrow - headed writing . In the huge wreck of Nineveh , under the shadows of Mount Elwend , at Susa and Persepolis , on the crags of Ván ...
... characters , which , from their likeness to barbs or wedges , have been styled the Cuneiform or arrow - headed writing . In the huge wreck of Nineveh , under the shadows of Mount Elwend , at Susa and Persepolis , on the crags of Ván ...
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... character referred to , but yet of high antiquity , and belonging to the same class of the Cuneiform , are the inscriptions on the celebrated black obelisk from Nimrúd , and on the marbles from Khorsábád and Koyunjik , the sculptures of ...
... character referred to , but yet of high antiquity , and belonging to the same class of the Cuneiform , are the inscriptions on the celebrated black obelisk from Nimrúd , and on the marbles from Khorsábád and Koyunjik , the sculptures of ...
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... character , have told us , that it was there Abraham lived before he dwelt in Haran . The vast site of Babylon is covered with bricks and fragments of pottery , stamped with this same type of the arrow - heads . Indeed , its grim but ...
... character , have told us , that it was there Abraham lived before he dwelt in Haran . The vast site of Babylon is covered with bricks and fragments of pottery , stamped with this same type of the arrow - heads . Indeed , its grim but ...
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... characters , and literal phonetics ? Just try to conceive what it must be to read a writing , one character of which may be a sort of cypher representing the name of a god ; the next a symbol , like one of Quarles's Emblems , or the ...
... characters , and literal phonetics ? Just try to conceive what it must be to read a writing , one character of which may be a sort of cypher representing the name of a god ; the next a symbol , like one of Quarles's Emblems , or the ...
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Seite 54 - My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; My shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
Seite 372 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Seite 171 - To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence, of witchcraft and sorcery is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God...
Seite 53 - O come, let us sing unto the Lord ; let us make a joyful noise to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto Him with Psalms.
Seite 26 - The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar; and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds
Seite 510 - To inquire into the present state of popular education in England, and to consider and report what measures, if any, are required for the extension of sound and cheap elementary instruction to all classes of the people.
Seite 37 - Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels: for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night Circle his throne rejoicing; ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Seite 57 - Many gentlemen have done my brother and me (though without naming us) the honour to reprint many of our hymns. Now they are perfectly welcome so to do, provided they print them just as they are. But I desire they would not attempt to mend them, for they really are not able. None of them is able to mend either the sense or the verse.
Seite 54 - HOW amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
Seite 292 - ... relative. Your wife is perpetually sending her little testimonies of affection, your little girls work endless worsted baskets, cushions, and footstools for her. What a good fire there is in her room when she comes to pay you a visit, although your wife laces her stays without one ! The house during her stay assumes a festive, neat, warm, jovial, snug appearance not visible at other seasons.