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... considerable rise and fall of the sea pro- duced by the alternate prevalence of the north and south winds ; the former frequently lowers its surface two feet ; and Alexander , in tak- ing advantage of such a moment , may have dashed on ...
... considerable rise and fall of the sea pro- duced by the alternate prevalence of the north and south winds ; the former frequently lowers its surface two feet ; and Alexander , in tak- ing advantage of such a moment , may have dashed on ...
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... considerably overhang the sea ; not in consequence of their base having crumbled away , but from their summit projecting in a lip , which consists of parallel lamina , each jutting out beyond its inferior layer ; as if water had been ...
... considerably overhang the sea ; not in consequence of their base having crumbled away , but from their summit projecting in a lip , which consists of parallel lamina , each jutting out beyond its inferior layer ; as if water had been ...
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... considerable time bare - headed in the rain , exposed in the public streets to the ridicule and the conjectures of every spectator . As far as filial affection and true amiableness of mind are concerned , the actor in such a scene ...
... considerable time bare - headed in the rain , exposed in the public streets to the ridicule and the conjectures of every spectator . As far as filial affection and true amiableness of mind are concerned , the actor in such a scene ...
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... considerable part of his life were not such as a strictly consistent Christian would have chosen , because they were not such as could in any way conduce to his spiritual comfort or improvement . Dr. J. was indeed called in the usual ...
... considerable part of his life were not such as a strictly consistent Christian would have chosen , because they were not such as could in any way conduce to his spiritual comfort or improvement . Dr. J. was indeed called in the usual ...
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... considerable advance beyond his pre- decessors in crime . He had assumed the costume and religion of a Turk , to participate in the massacre of his own country- men , the Venetians , in revenge for some imagined wrong re- ceived from ...
... considerable advance beyond his pre- decessors in crime . He had assumed the costume and religion of a Turk , to participate in the massacre of his own country- men , the Venetians , in revenge for some imagined wrong re- ceived from ...
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Seite 47 - How calm, how beautiful comes on The stilly hour when storms are gone, When warring winds have died away, And clouds, beneath the glancing ray, Melt off, and leave the land and sea Sleeping in bright tranquillity...
Seite 90 - twere anew, the gaps of centuries ; Leaving that beautiful which still was so, And making that which was not, till the place Became religion, and the heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old ! — The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule Our spirits from their urns.
Seite 90 - Caesars' palace came The owl's long cry, and, interruptedly, Of distant sentinels the fitful song Begun and died upon the gentle wind. Some cypresses beyond the time-worn breach Appeared to skirt the horizon ; yet they stood Within a bow-shot.
Seite 53 - Alas! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm, when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity...
Seite 147 - It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log, at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far, in May, Although it fall, and die that night; It was the plant, and flower of light. In small proportions, we just beauties see: And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Seite 189 - And to the end that we should alway remember the exceeding great love of our Master and only Saviour Jesus Christ, thus dying for us, and the innumerable benefits which, by his precious bloodshedding, he hath obtained to us...
Seite 89 - Midst the chief relics of almighty Rome ; The trees which grew along the broken arches Waved dark in the blue midnight, and the stars Shone through the rents of ruin ; from afar The watch-dog bayed beyond the Tiber ; and More near from out the Caesars...
Seite 276 - ... 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.
Seite 162 - This corruption of nature, during this life, doth remain in those that are regenerated; and although it be through Christ pardoned and mortified, yet both itself and all the motions thereof are truly and properly sin.
Seite 161 - Original sin standeth not in the following of Adam, (as the Pelagians do vainly talk,) but it is the corruption of the nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam...