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... BIBLE . Anthony Purver , a poor Quaker carpenter , con- ceived that the spirit impelled him to translate the Bible . He ac- cordingly learnt Latin , Greek , and Hebrew , and published a lite- ral version of the Old and New Tastaments ...
... BIBLE . Anthony Purver , a poor Quaker carpenter , con- ceived that the spirit impelled him to translate the Bible . He ac- cordingly learnt Latin , Greek , and Hebrew , and published a lite- ral version of the Old and New Tastaments ...
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... Bible to describe the proceedings of the Legislature of Kentucky in certain cases . At p . 70 we have the petition of one of those would - be Solons , whose exis- tence is among the taxes which a free country must endure . It is ...
... Bible to describe the proceedings of the Legislature of Kentucky in certain cases . At p . 70 we have the petition of one of those would - be Solons , whose exis- tence is among the taxes which a free country must endure . It is ...
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... it unneces- sary to set her hens until the war is over . I knew a grave per- sonage who having read of " wars and rumours of war " in her Bible , and having observed that the former had suspended THE AMERICAN LOUNGER .
... it unneces- sary to set her hens until the war is over . I knew a grave per- sonage who having read of " wars and rumours of war " in her Bible , and having observed that the former had suspended THE AMERICAN LOUNGER .
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Bible , and having observed that the former had suspended works even of necessity and mercy , exclaimed , " if this is war , what will become of us when the rumours of war come . ” The war was over - but then the times were hard ; the ...
Bible , and having observed that the former had suspended works even of necessity and mercy , exclaimed , " if this is war , what will become of us when the rumours of war come . ” The war was over - but then the times were hard ; the ...
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... Bibles mostly preserve the different cases of the plural English pronoun ye and you ; and our grammarians also attend to this . Why then will not people conform to rule , and write grammatically , and use ye for the nominative case ? 81 ...
... Bibles mostly preserve the different cases of the plural English pronoun ye and you ; and our grammarians also attend to this . Why then will not people conform to rule , and write grammatically , and use ye for the nominative case ? 81 ...
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American Andromache appears army banks beautiful Bible boat boiler Brevets caciques called captain character chinampas Cholula Colonel command Cottagers of Glenburnie Covenanters dollars per month earth enemy engine English Evandale eyes favour feel French gentlemen give gold Granville Sharp hand heart heaven honour horses hundred inhabitants John July July 14 June 14 king labour land leagues letters Lieutenants Lord Maj bvt manner master means ment Mexico miles mind mineralogy Montezuma nature never observed officers Old Mortality opinion Pernambuco persons Phillips political PORT FOLIO present principles province Pyrrhus racter received Recife rendered residence respect river says sent slaves soon spirit thee thing thou thousand tion town translation United whole word writer Yellow Fever
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Page 123 - Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee ; take away this cup from me: nevertheless, not what I will, but what thou wilt.
Page 122 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 259 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Page 156 - The one was fire and fickleness, a child Most mutable in wishes, but in mind A wit as various, — gay, grave, sage, or wild, — Historian, bard, philosopher combined : He multiplied himself among mankind, The Proteus of their talents : But his own Breathed most in ridicule, — which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone, — Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne.
Page 260 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory ; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Page 511 - Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 259 - Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him ; But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him. But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring; And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame...
Page 119 - Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us ; and to the hills, Cover us.
Page 259 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow ; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 433 - I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.