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... feet or even three feet ; but by far the greater number of plants ( such as the hepatica , | the common daisy , the common grasses , etc. ) are killed by having the collar covered two or three inches ; and nothing is more injurious to ...
... feet or even three feet ; but by far the greater number of plants ( such as the hepatica , | the common daisy , the common grasses , etc. ) are killed by having the collar covered two or three inches ; and nothing is more injurious to ...
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... feet above the loftiest part of the structure , terminates in a point . The rod is fixed higher than any portion of the building , because if a stream of electricity should take the direction in which the house stands , it ought at once ...
... feet above the loftiest part of the structure , terminates in a point . The rod is fixed higher than any portion of the building , because if a stream of electricity should take the direction in which the house stands , it ought at once ...
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... feet deep , ponds , woods , and buildings . This wire was supported by large masts completely rigged like those belonging to a vessel , and were from fifty to one hundred and ten feet in height ; and were raised to their places by a ...
... feet deep , ponds , woods , and buildings . This wire was supported by large masts completely rigged like those belonging to a vessel , and were from fifty to one hundred and ten feet in height ; and were raised to their places by a ...
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... feet high , ascended by five flights of steps , the centre of which is reserved for the emperor . It is here that he receives the congratulations of his officers , who prostrate themselves to the ground before the imperial presence , on ...
... feet high , ascended by five flights of steps , the centre of which is reserved for the emperor . It is here that he receives the congratulations of his officers , who prostrate themselves to the ground before the imperial presence , on ...
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... feet high , and twelve wide ; built of polished red brick , and sur- rounded by a moat , lined with hewn For how could they fail to be supremely happy , when they looked around on the earth covered with beauty , above on the heaven ...
... feet high , and twelve wide ; built of polished red brick , and sur- rounded by a moat , lined with hewn For how could they fail to be supremely happy , when they looked around on the earth covered with beauty , above on the heaven ...
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Page 152 - Who will shew us any good?" Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
Page 106 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth ; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes : but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 107 - ... promises, kindly stepped in, and carried him away, to where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest ! It is during the time that we lived on this farm, that my little story is most eventful.
Page 49 - Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. For she hath cast down many wounded : yea, many strong men have been slain by her. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Page 428 - Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity.
Page 222 - Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs.
Page 24 - Go to now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain : whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
Page 447 - shine as the brightness of the firmament, and as the stars for ever and ever.
Page 109 - He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses : of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the Blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite to the Spirit of grace ? For we know Him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto Me, I will recompense, saith the Lord.
Page 399 - Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions: and join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.