The National Magazine, 1. köideAbel Stevens, James Floy Carlton & Phillips, 1852 |
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... hundred pages per number , is as large as most persons finding their work a repository of only the desirable for their leisure reading ; there selectest articles . may be too much of a good thing ; it would be an evil rather than an ...
... hundred pages per number , is as large as most persons finding their work a repository of only the desirable for their leisure reading ; there selectest articles . may be too much of a good thing ; it would be an evil rather than an ...
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... hundred and twenty- nine owners of the town of New - Haven . and at the time he was received at North Guilford weighed but three - and - a - half pounds . The Spartan laws would have consigned him to death as not sufficiently promising ...
... hundred and twenty- nine owners of the town of New - Haven . and at the time he was received at North Guilford weighed but three - and - a - half pounds . The Spartan laws would have consigned him to death as not sufficiently promising ...
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... hundred and fifty years , and then live to see its success for six or seven centuries afterward ; but at present a man waits , and doubts , and hesi- tates , and consults his brother , and his uncle , and his first cousins , and his ...
... hundred and fifty years , and then live to see its success for six or seven centuries afterward ; but at present a man waits , and doubts , and hesi- tates , and consults his brother , and his uncle , and his first cousins , and his ...
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... hundred paces in circuit , which at the margin sloped off precipitously on every side , but particu- larly towards the north - east and south- At about half a mile distant from the place where he stood , he perceived a second summit ...
... hundred paces in circuit , which at the margin sloped off precipitously on every side , but particu- larly towards the north - east and south- At about half a mile distant from the place where he stood , he perceived a second summit ...
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... hundred and twenty feet long , with scales impenetrable to any weapon . Some of the boldest troops at first went to oppose its fury ; but they soon fell victims to their rashness , being either killed by its devouring jaws , or crushed ...
... hundred and twenty feet long , with scales impenetrable to any weapon . Some of the boldest troops at first went to oppose its fury ; but they soon fell victims to their rashness , being either killed by its devouring jaws , or crushed ...
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Page 253 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Page 111 - Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, Therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, And I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Page 112 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 112 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud ! for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked...
Page 494 - Sir, she had read the old romances, and had got into her head the fantastical notion that a woman of spirit should use her lover like a dog. So, sir, at first she told me that I rode too fast, and she could not keep up with me ; and, when I rode a little slower, she passed me, and complained that I lagged behind. I was not to be made the slave of caprice ; and I resolved to begin as I meant to end. I therefore pushed on briskly, till I was fairly out of her sight. The road lay between two hedges,...
Page 112 - For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Page 28 - And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD ; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Page 51 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 471 - The Lord bless you, and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace, both now and evermore.
Page 99 - The poor folk flocked from far and near ; The great barn was full as it could hold Of women and children, and young and old. Then when he saw it could hold no more Bishop Hatto he made fast the door ; And while for mercy on Christ they call, He set fire to the barn and burnt them all. " I' faith, 'tis an excellent bonfire ! " quoth he, " And the country is greatly obliged to me, For ridding it in these times forlorn, Of rats, that only consume the corn.