The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Band 1Francis S. Wiggins, 1831 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ancient animal ant-hill appears Areopagus Assyrian atmosphere Babylon beautiful body breath bright brother called character clouds Coragus dark death Dioxippus distance dwelling earth ecliptic elevated father feel feet female flowers friends globe glory Greece habits hand happy hath heart heaven height HENRY KIRKE WHITE hope human hundred inhabitants insects interesting king kingdom Lamprocles land light live look Lycurgus Medes miles mind monarch MONTHLY REPOSITORY Moon mother Mount Taurus mountains nature never night Nineveh Northend o'er object observed ocean Paraguay Persian persons pleasure present Rehoboam reign render rise river rocks ruins says scene Scythians seen Semiramis smile sorrow soul Sparta species spirit stars surface sweet tears temple TEN LOST TRIBES thee thine thing thou thought thousand tion trees virtue voice young youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 132 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Seite 8 - Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language: Where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth: And their words to the end of the world.
Seite 72 - Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Seite 236 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled ; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Seite 237 - GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that 'every 'imagination of the thoughts of his heart wan only evil 2 continually.
Seite 168 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Seite 271 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world, with kings, The powerful of the earth, the wise, the good, Fair forms and hoary seers of ages past — All in one mighty sepulchre.
Seite 271 - Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods; rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks, That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man!
Seite 111 - Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.
Seite 367 - With all the visionary fervor of his imagination, its fondest dreams fell short of the reality. He died in ignorance of the real grandeur of his discovery! Until his last breath, he entertained the idea that he had merely opened a new way to the old resorts of opulent commerce, and had discovered some of the wild regions of the East. He supposed Hispaniola to be the ancient Ophir, which had been visited by the ships of King Solomon, and that Cuba and Terra Firma were but remote parts of Asia.