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Seite 183 - Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul : let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt. Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, "Aha, aha!
Seite 34 - His gardens next your admiration call, On every side you look, behold the wall! No pleasing intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene: Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother, And half the platform just reflects the other.
Seite 430 - We have read this new work of Rev. JS Inskip with great pleasure and profit. It in very truth explains and defends Methodism, and, as the introduction (written by another,) says, "its pages cover nearly the whole field of controversy in regard to the polity of the Methodist Church, and present a clear and candid exposition of Methodism in a clear and systematic form, and highly argumentative style. It is a book for the times, and should be read by all who desire to become more intimately acquainted...
Seite 422 - THE NEW TESTAMENT. 2 vols. super-royal 8vo. Plain and embossed gilt. The increasing demand for Dr. Clarke's Commentary on the New Testament, has induced us to issue an edition on superior paper, large clear type, handsomely and substantially bound, containing 1978 pages, with a portrait of the author. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF THOMAS DICE, LL.
Seite 29 - Well, that shews you were not raised in Virginia. Time you should see a little of the world, sir ; there's nothing in life equal to a barbecue, properly managed, — a good old Virginia barbecue. — James Hall, ' The Harpe's Head,
Seite 423 - D 1 1 vols. in 2 ; containing An Essay on the Improvement of Society ; The Philosophy of a Future State ; The Philosophy of Religion ; The Mental Illumination and Moral Improvement of Mankind ; An Essay on the Sin and Evils of Covetousness ; The Christian Philosopher, or Science and Religion ; Celectial Scenery, illustrated ; Sideral Heavens, Planets, etc. ; The Practical Astronomer; The Solar System, its Wonders ; The Atmosphere and Atmospherical Phenomena, &o.
Seite 435 - Psalmist, <fec., containing all Systems of Notation. New Edition, enlarged. The title, " Universal Musician," is adopted because the work is designed for everybody. The style of expression is in common plain English, so that it may be adapted to the capacities of all, instead of simply pleasing the fancy of the few. MOST of the music is written in Harrison's Numeral System of Notation, because it is the most intelligible of all the different systems extant, and is therefore better adapted to the...
Seite 86 - His eye was fearless and steady, but it was also artful and audacious, glaring upon the beholder with an unpleasant fixedness and brilliancy, like that of a ravenous animal gloating on its prey. He wore no covering on his head, and the natural protection of thick coarse hair, of a fiery redness, uncombed and matted, gave evidence of long exposure to the rudest visitations of the sunbeam and the tempest.
Seite 428 - It is a better piece of property for a young man to own, than an eighty acre lot in the Mississippi Valley, or many hundred dollars in current money. We would rather leave it as a legacy to a son, had we to make the choice, than any moderate amount of property, if we were certain he would read it ; and, we are bound to add, that, were we now going to purchase a copy, this edition would have the preference over every other of which we hav
Seite 422 - ... particular creed, but the apprehension of truth for truth's own sake, restrained in the noble pursuits of no party tenets by no ardor for favorite dogmas. It is difficult to conceive of a complete library without this valuable work, and yet alone of itself, it affords to its possessor no mean, variety of entertainment. Besides forming a moderate, but clear elucidation of the true meaning of the Sacred Word, it abounds with illustrations in science, the literature of all ages, and the history...