Juvenile essays which obtained the prizes proposed by the proprietor of The Teacher's offering; to which is prefixed, an intr. by H.F. BurderFrancis Westley, 1825 - 129 pages |
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... walls rebuilt . The ancient city was built on a hill , and was sur- rounded by a group of hills ( called mounts in scripture ) in the form of an amphitheatre , which situation rendered it serene from the earth- quakes which appear to ...
... walls rebuilt . The ancient city was built on a hill , and was sur- rounded by a group of hills ( called mounts in scripture ) in the form of an amphitheatre , which situation rendered it serene from the earth- quakes which appear to ...
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... walls , except on such parts as were encom- passed by impassable vallies , where there was only one wall . Numerous towers constructed of solid masonry , were erected at certain dis- tances : in the third wall there were ninety , in the ...
... walls , except on such parts as were encom- passed by impassable vallies , where there was only one wall . Numerous towers constructed of solid masonry , were erected at certain dis- tances : in the third wall there were ninety , in the ...
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... walls , and ancient grottoes , which have experienced the blast of many a fearful hurri- cane , while Time , the destroyer of the works of man , seems to exult amidst the desolations he has made , with grim insensibility ! Mount Tabor ...
... walls , and ancient grottoes , which have experienced the blast of many a fearful hurri- cane , while Time , the destroyer of the works of man , seems to exult amidst the desolations he has made , with grim insensibility ! Mount Tabor ...
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... walls , repair the former desolations , repair the waste cities , the desolations of many generations . " ( Isa . lxi . 4. ) The present state of the country is very aptly and poetically described by the Psalmist in the following ...
... walls , repair the former desolations , repair the waste cities , the desolations of many generations . " ( Isa . lxi . 4. ) The present state of the country is very aptly and poetically described by the Psalmist in the following ...
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... walls were eighty - seven feet in thickness , and three hundred and fifty in height . These were of four sides , meeting at right angles , and the composition was brick and bitumen . Each side of this square had five and twenty immense ...
... walls were eighty - seven feet in thickness , and three hundred and fifty in height . These were of four sides , meeting at right angles , and the composition was brick and bitumen . Each side of this square had five and twenty immense ...
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Page 127 - I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation: and all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing : and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
Page 55 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shall keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Page 24 - And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you ; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return eveiy man unto his family.
Page 124 - This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Page 127 - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
Page 32 - Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the Lord.
Page 110 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
Page 58 - Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the assembly of the elders. He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground; A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Page 109 - For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Page 21 - And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.