Second collection of instructive extracts: no.vi of a new series of school-books |
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... fire , that is , common or unhallowed fire , instead of taking it from the altar of burnt - offerings , were consumed by fire from the Lord . From Sinaithe Israelites proceeded northward through the desert of Pa'ran , and in little more ...
... fire , that is , common or unhallowed fire , instead of taking it from the altar of burnt - offerings , were consumed by fire from the Lord . From Sinaithe Israelites proceeded northward through the desert of Pa'ran , and in little more ...
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... fire , and Samson , to avenge their deaths , smote the Philistines " with a great slaughter . " He then took up his residence on the rock E'tam in Judah , and the men of Judah dreading the vengeance of the Philistines , surrounded the ...
... fire , and Samson , to avenge their deaths , smote the Philistines " with a great slaughter . " He then took up his residence on the rock E'tam in Judah , and the men of Judah dreading the vengeance of the Philistines , surrounded the ...
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... fire to the palace and perished in the flames . The sovereignty continued in Omri's family for three generations , the sceptre being successively swayed by him- self , his son Ahab , and his grandsons , Ahazi'ah and Jo- ram . Joram ...
... fire to the palace and perished in the flames . The sovereignty continued in Omri's family for three generations , the sceptre being successively swayed by him- self , his son Ahab , and his grandsons , Ahazi'ah and Jo- ram . Joram ...
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... fire , and , after all these , a still small voice — his calling down fire from heaven , which consumed the officers of Ahazi'ah , that had been sent to seize him - his anointing Eli'sha to succeed him as prophet and his translation ...
... fire , and , after all these , a still small voice — his calling down fire from heaven , which consumed the officers of Ahazi'ah , that had been sent to seize him - his anointing Eli'sha to succeed him as prophet and his translation ...
Seite 29
... fire to Mo'loch - profaned all the places that had been consecrated to idols - demolished the altar at Beth'el which Jerobo'am had erected for the worship of the golden calves , and held a solemn Pas'sover such as had never been kept ...
... fire to Mo'loch - profaned all the places that had been consecrated to idols - demolished the altar at Beth'el which Jerobo'am had erected for the worship of the golden calves , and held a solemn Pas'sover such as had never been kept ...
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Seite 274 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
Seite 270 - Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
Seite 260 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
Seite 8 - And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
Seite 270 - Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam? And who commanded (and the silence came), Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest?
Seite 244 - I STOOD in Venice on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand ; I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
Seite 248 - Tis Greece, but living Greece no more ! So coldly sweet, so deadly fair, We start, for soul is wanting there. Hers is the loveliness in death, That parts not quite with parting breath ; But beauty with that fearful bloom, That hue which haunts it to the tomb ; Expression's last receding ray, A gilded halo hovering round decay, The farewell beam of Feeling past away...
Seite 225 - I drew near with that reverence which is due to a superior nature; and as my heart was entirely subdued by the captivating strains I had heard, I fell down at his feet and wept. The genius smiled upon me with a look of compassion and affability that familiarized him to my imagination, and at once dispelled all the fears and apprehensions with which I approached him.
Seite 272 - Why, well ; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Seite 260 - At last divine Cecilia came, Inventress of the vocal frame ; The sweet enthusiast, from her sacred store, Enlarged the former narrow bounds, And added length to solemn sounds, With nature's mother-wit, and arts unknown before. Let old Timotheus yield the prize, Or both divide the crown ; He raised a mortal to the skies ; She drew an angel down.