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... known to the ancients , though Homer has styled them the justest of men , and the favourites of the deities . They were the first inhabitants of the earth . - Diod . And first to worship the gods ; on which account , some say , their ...
... known to the ancients , though Homer has styled them the justest of men , and the favourites of the deities . They were the first inhabitants of the earth . - Diod . And first to worship the gods ; on which account , some say , their ...
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... known couplet , in which an Alexandrine is happily exemplified : - : - " A needless Alexandrine ends the song , That , like a wound - ed snake , drags its slow length a - long . " ALFORD , BATTLE OF . General Baillie with a large body ...
... known couplet , in which an Alexandrine is happily exemplified : - : - " A needless Alexandrine ends the song , That , like a wound - ed snake , drags its slow length a - long . " ALFORD , BATTLE OF . General Baillie with a large body ...
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... known , and applied by the ancients to various purposes . It was used as paint to blacken both men's and women's eyes , as appears from 2 Kings ix . 30 , and Jeremiah iv . 30 , and in eastern countries is thus used to this day . When ...
... known , and applied by the ancients to various purposes . It was used as paint to blacken both men's and women's eyes , as appears from 2 Kings ix . 30 , and Jeremiah iv . 30 , and in eastern countries is thus used to this day . When ...
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... known in London until 1770 , yet the arbutus is found in great plenty and perfection in the islands which beautify the lakes of Killarney in Ireland , where it was probably introduced by the monks who inhabited that part of the country ...
... known in London until 1770 , yet the arbutus is found in great plenty and perfection in the islands which beautify the lakes of Killarney in Ireland , where it was probably introduced by the monks who inhabited that part of the country ...
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... known , at least with certainty . It was brought from Egypt into Greece by Thales , about 600 B.C. The oldest treatise upon arithmetic is by Euclid ( 7th , 8th , and 9th books of his Elements ) , about 300 B.C. The sexagesimal ...
... known , at least with certainty . It was brought from Egypt into Greece by Thales , about 600 B.C. The oldest treatise upon arithmetic is by Euclid ( 7th , 8th , and 9th books of his Elements ) , about 300 B.C. The sexagesimal ...
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Page 69 - If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young...
Page 199 - Even from the grave thou shalt have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee; Bid them in Duty's sphere as meekly move; And if so fair, from vanity as free; As firm in friendship, and as fond in love. Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die ('Twas even to thee), yet the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids ' the pure in heart behold their God.
Page 26 - And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.
Page 299 - But see! each Muse, in Leo's golden days, Starts from her trance, and trims her wither'd bays! Rome's ancient Genius, o'er its ruins spread, Shakes off the dust, and rears his rev'rend head.
Page 14 - whispers through the trees': If crystal streams 'with pleasing murmurs creep': The reader's threaten'd (not in vain) with 'sleep'.
Page 475 - We were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
Page 155 - I pity the man who can travel from Dan. to Beersheba, and cry, 'Tis all barren and so it is; and so is all the world to him, who will not cultivate the fruits it offers.
Page 459 - May, 1700, and was buried in Westminster abbey, where a monument was erected to his memory by John, duke of Buckingham.
Page 556 - If there were as many devils in Worms as there are tiles on the housetops I would go.
Page 373 - ... thou shalt not go again to fetch it : it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow : that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.