The Monthly Repository, and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Band 1Francis S. Wiggins, 1831 |
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... looked deep into the phenomena of nature , and the character of man— but it was no flight of his imagination that overlooked the false and limited boundary of science . It was the fixed glance of an inquisitive , but disciplined mind ...
... looked deep into the phenomena of nature , and the character of man— but it was no flight of his imagination that overlooked the false and limited boundary of science . It was the fixed glance of an inquisitive , but disciplined mind ...
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... looked , and that she sometimes shed tears , and tried to conceal them . - She said to her one day , " Lucretia , it is a long time since you have written any thing . " The poor girl burst into tears . " Oh , mother , I have given that ...
... looked , and that she sometimes shed tears , and tried to conceal them . - She said to her one day , " Lucretia , it is a long time since you have written any thing . " The poor girl burst into tears . " Oh , mother , I have given that ...
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... looked not severe , like an Angel of Wrath , But its garment of brightness illum'd its dark path . In the hues of its grandeur , sublimely it stood , O'er the river , the village , the field , and the wood ; And river , field , village ...
... looked not severe , like an Angel of Wrath , But its garment of brightness illum'd its dark path . In the hues of its grandeur , sublimely it stood , O'er the river , the village , the field , and the wood ; And river , field , village ...
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... looked upon as a great curiosity . Between each of the falls there are rapids of considerable descent ; the water is very deep , and so transparent , that great cakes of stone , cracked in all directions like a pavement of ir- regular ...
... looked upon as a great curiosity . Between each of the falls there are rapids of considerable descent ; the water is very deep , and so transparent , that great cakes of stone , cracked in all directions like a pavement of ir- regular ...
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... looked on the spectators as in- quiring if he should strike ; when Alexander com- manded to spare him : so the day ended with great glory to Dioxippus . But the king departed , and from that day forward his mind was alienated from the ...
... looked on the spectators as in- quiring if he should strike ; when Alexander com- manded to spare him : so the day ended with great glory to Dioxippus . But the king departed , and from that day forward his mind was alienated from the ...
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ancient animal appears Areopagus Assyrian atmosphere Babylon beautiful body breath bright called character clouds Coragus dark death Dioxippus distance dwelling earth ecliptic father feel feet female flowers friends gaze globe glory grave Greece habits hand happy hath heart heaven height HENRY KIRKE WHITE hope human hundred inhabitants insects interesting kingdom kings Lamprocles land LIBRARY OF Entertaining light live looked LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Lycurgus miles mind monarch Moon mother motion mountains nature never night Nineveh Northend o'er object observed ocean Paraguay Persian persons pleasure present Rehoboam reign render rise river rocks ruins Sadducees says scene Scythians seen Semiramis smile sorrow soul Sparta species spirit stars storm surface sweet tears temple TEN LOST TRIBES thee thine thing thou thought thousand tion virtue voice young youth
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Seite 243 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled ; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Seite 139 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Seite 327 - How manifold are thy works, O Lord ! In wisdom hast thou made them all...
Seite 15 - Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language: Where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth: And their words to the end of the world.
Seite 79 - Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Seite 175 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Seite 228 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth, as in the ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees; Lives through all life, extends through all extent; Spreads undivided, operates unspent!
Seite 244 - And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Seite 375 - There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. Life, in which nothing has been done or suffered to distinguish one day from another, is to him that has passed it, as if it had never been, except that he is conscious how ill he has husbanded the great deposit of his Creator.
Seite 374 - With all the visionary fervor of his imagination, its fondest dreams fell short of the reality. He died in ignorance of the real grandeur of his discovery! Until his last breath, he entertained the idea that he had merely opened a new way to the old resorts of opulent commerce, and had discovered some of the wild regions of the East. He supposed Hispaniola to be the ancient Ophir, which had been visited by the ships of King Solomon, and that Cuba and Terra Firma were but remote parts of Asia.