Fifth Book of Lessons for the Use of the Irish National SchoolsP. Dixon Hardy, 1836 - 406 Seiten |
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... Egypt , where the overflow takes place , no rain ever falls . The apparent mystery is easily explained from the circum- stance of the rains descending and the snow melting upon the mountains in the interior of Africa where the Nile ...
... Egypt , where the overflow takes place , no rain ever falls . The apparent mystery is easily explained from the circum- stance of the rains descending and the snow melting upon the mountains in the interior of Africa where the Nile ...
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... Egypt owes its formation to the alluvial matter brought down by the Nile , aided by the sand cast up by the sea . The Delta of the Rhone is undergoing a similar augmentation , and it would appear that the arms of that river have , in ...
... Egypt owes its formation to the alluvial matter brought down by the Nile , aided by the sand cast up by the sea . The Delta of the Rhone is undergoing a similar augmentation , and it would appear that the arms of that river have , in ...
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... Egypt , Ethiopia , Syria , Assyria , Babylon and Persia , and the influence which they possessed in the affairs of men in different ages of the world . The regular chain of Jewish history and chronology is interrupted at the building of ...
... Egypt , Ethiopia , Syria , Assyria , Babylon and Persia , and the influence which they possessed in the affairs of men in different ages of the world . The regular chain of Jewish history and chronology is interrupted at the building of ...
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... Egypt , and the giving of the law at Mount Sinai , which is determined to the year 1491 , or nearly 1500 , years B.C. The last period of a thousand years , or that which intervened between Solomon and the birth of Christ , is equally ...
... Egypt , and the giving of the law at Mount Sinai , which is determined to the year 1491 , or nearly 1500 , years B.C. The last period of a thousand years , or that which intervened between Solomon and the birth of Christ , is equally ...
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... Egypt was then governed by a king , and seems to have retained some knowledge of the true God . Damascus was built in a beautiful valley , watered by two rivers , on the edge of the wilderness . It is called by the inhabitants of that ...
... Egypt was then governed by a king , and seems to have retained some knowledge of the true God . Damascus was built in a beautiful valley , watered by two rivers , on the edge of the wilderness . It is called by the inhabitants of that ...
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Seite 377 - Unanxious for ourselves, and only wish As duteous sons, our fathers were more wise. At thirty man suspects himself a fool ; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan ; At fifty chides his infamous delay, Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; In all the magnanimity of thought Resolves and re-resolves; then dies the same.
Seite 381 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine/ And after one hour more 'twill be eleven/ And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe And then from hour to hour, we rot and rot, And thereby hangs a tale.
Seite 379 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Seite 401 - midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way ? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Seite 380 - The seasons' difference ; as, the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, — This is no flattery : these are counsellors, That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Seite 380 - I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Seite 402 - Thou'rt gone, the abyss of heaven Hath swallowed up thy form ; yet, on my heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou hast given, And shall not soon depart. He who, from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps aright.
Seite 397 - THE way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses gray, Seemed to have known a better day ; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried by an orphan boy.
Seite 401 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, The desert and illimitable air, Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere; Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Seite 383 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide, " Both God exact day-labour, light denied ?