The Saturday Magazine ..., Volúmenes4-5John William Parker, 1834 |
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... period , when all danger might be supposed to have passed away , its extensive and exquisitely - beautiful ruins , were almost demolished for the sake of their materials . Nor was Much of the priory of Tynemouth , it is pro- bable , was ...
... period , when all danger might be supposed to have passed away , its extensive and exquisitely - beautiful ruins , were almost demolished for the sake of their materials . Nor was Much of the priory of Tynemouth , it is pro- bable , was ...
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THE IDOLS OF THE SAXONS . I. SUNDAY . Ar this happy period of the world , we cannot reflect on the idolatry of ancient times , without some as- tonishment at the folly which has , in various regions , so sadly clouded the human mind ...
THE IDOLS OF THE SAXONS . I. SUNDAY . Ar this happy period of the world , we cannot reflect on the idolatry of ancient times , without some as- tonishment at the folly which has , in various regions , so sadly clouded the human mind ...
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... period . They are mentioned by Homer and Herodotus . Besides their situation , and other circumstances which have been brought together to strengthen this theory , the Scythians had certain customs exceedingly like those that prevailed ...
... period . They are mentioned by Homer and Herodotus . Besides their situation , and other circumstances which have been brought together to strengthen this theory , the Scythians had certain customs exceedingly like those that prevailed ...
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... period of day - light which the heat of the climate will permit to be spent in the open air . Their productions are also most valuable . Sweet lemons , limes , oranges , and citrons , offer , in addition to their superb blossoms and ...
... period of day - light which the heat of the climate will permit to be spent in the open air . Their productions are also most valuable . Sweet lemons , limes , oranges , and citrons , offer , in addition to their superb blossoms and ...
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... period of the city's commercial prosperity , are said to have amounted to 40,000,000l . sterling of the precious metals . This building also formerly contained prisons , both for criminals and debtors , but these have been transferred ...
... period of the city's commercial prosperity , are said to have amounted to 40,000,000l . sterling of the precious metals . This building also formerly contained prisons , both for criminals and debtors , but these have been transferred ...
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Página 8 - And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Página 110 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude ; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Página 136 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Página 7 - What sighs have been wafted after that ship ! what prayers offered up at the deserted fireside of home! How often has the mistress, the wife, the mother, pored over the daily news to catch some casual intelligence of this rover of the deep! How has expectation darkened into anxiety, anxiety into dread, and dread into despair! Alas! not one memento shall ever return for love to cherish. All that shall ever be known, is that she sailed from her port,
Página 110 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Página 187 - Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.
Página 72 - Have children climbed those knees and kissed that face? What was thy name and station, age and race? Statue of flesh — immortal of the dead ! Imperishable type of evanescence ! Posthumous man, who quitt'st thy narrow bed, And standest undecayed within our presence, Thou wilt hear nothing till the judgment morning, When the great trump shall thrill tliee with its warning.
Página 14 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Página 148 - THOU art gone to the grave — but we will not deplore thee; Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb, The Saviour has passed through its portals before thee, And the lamp of his love is thy guide through the gloom.
Página 61 - The naked negro, panting at the line. Boasts of his golden sands, and palmy wine; Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave, And thanks his gods for all the good they gave.