Second collection of instructive extracts: no.vi of a new series of school-books |
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... remained forty days . De- scending from the Mount , Joshua heard the shouts of the people as if engaged with an enemy ; but Moses observed that it was not the sound of war , but the cries of joy . When he saw the golden calf that had ...
... remained forty days . De- scending from the Mount , Joshua heard the shouts of the people as if engaged with an enemy ; but Moses observed that it was not the sound of war , but the cries of joy . When he saw the golden calf that had ...
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... of all those who had been numbered at Sinai none remained save Caleb and Joshua . Moses having had a view of the Promised Land from Mount Nebo or Pisgah , died there in his 120th year , and was buried SACRED HISTORY . 11.
... of all those who had been numbered at Sinai none remained save Caleb and Joshua . Moses having had a view of the Promised Land from Mount Nebo or Pisgah , died there in his 120th year , and was buried SACRED HISTORY . 11.
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... carried it to Beth'shemesh , after it had remained in the land of the Philistines seven months . The men of Beth'shemesh boked into the ark ; therefore the Lord smote of them 50,070 persons . It was then removed to Kir'jath - 16 SUMMARY OF.
... carried it to Beth'shemesh , after it had remained in the land of the Philistines seven months . The men of Beth'shemesh boked into the ark ; therefore the Lord smote of them 50,070 persons . It was then removed to Kir'jath - 16 SUMMARY OF.
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... remained for twenty years . Samuel , iv . - vii . Samuel , the son of El'kanah , and of the devout Han- nah , of the tribe of Le'vi , " was sanctified from the womb , " and had been devoted from his infancy to the service of the ...
... remained for twenty years . Samuel , iv . - vii . Samuel , the son of El'kanah , and of the devout Han- nah , of the tribe of Le'vi , " was sanctified from the womb , " and had been devoted from his infancy to the service of the ...
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... remained in the land , were by Solomon reduced to subjection , and made to labour on the public works . He also fitted out a fleet at Ezi'on - ge'ber and Elath on the Red Sea , and with mariners furnished by Hiram king of Tyre , traded ...
... remained in the land , were by Solomon reduced to subjection , and made to labour on the public works . He also fitted out a fleet at Ezi'on - ge'ber and Elath on the Red Sea , and with mariners furnished by Hiram king of Tyre , traded ...
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Página 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...
Página 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!
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.