Excelsior: Helps to Progress in Religion, Science, and Literature, Volume 1James Nisbet and Company, Berners Street, 1854 |
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... an Alpine village passed A youth , who bore , ' mid snow and ice , A banner with the strange device , Excelsior ! " LONGFELLOW , VOL I LONDON ; JAMES NISBET AND CO . BERNERS STREET . 1854 , 1 THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRAR 30 ASTOR , LENOX AND.
... an Alpine village passed A youth , who bore , ' mid snow and ice , A banner with the strange device , Excelsior ! " LONGFELLOW , VOL I LONDON ; JAMES NISBET AND CO . BERNERS STREET . 1854 , 1 THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRAR 30 ASTOR , LENOX AND.
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... glad as he . But as he laughed and gambolled Strange languor o'er him stole ; His eyes grew dim , and faint each limb , And dark the sunny soul , THE THREE WAKINGS . Till the green earth in pity 90 THE THREE WAKINGS .
... glad as he . But as he laughed and gambolled Strange languor o'er him stole ; His eyes grew dim , and faint each limb , And dark the sunny soul , THE THREE WAKINGS . Till the green earth in pity 90 THE THREE WAKINGS .
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... strange and solemn Visitant Beside his couch had been , Clad in the old prophetic garb , And stern with the prophet's mien . " What dost thou here ? " she murmured , " What is outshines what seems ; Earth has no room for idlers ; Life ...
... strange and solemn Visitant Beside his couch had been , Clad in the old prophetic garb , And stern with the prophet's mien . " What dost thou here ? " she murmured , " What is outshines what seems ; Earth has no room for idlers ; Life ...
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... strange and unaccountable contrast is pre- sented by the extremely restricted existence of this species , now confined to a few cages in Sydney , and the almost bonndless distribution of certain other birds ( the turnstone , for example ) ...
... strange and unaccountable contrast is pre- sented by the extremely restricted existence of this species , now confined to a few cages in Sydney , and the almost bonndless distribution of certain other birds ( the turnstone , for example ) ...
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... Strange as it may appear , this is the first collection of Goldsmith's works in which pains has been taken to reprint his pieces as they appeared with his own final corrections ; nor has any previous edition contained his Letters . The ...
... Strange as it may appear , this is the first collection of Goldsmith's works in which pains has been taken to reprint his pieces as they appeared with his own final corrections ; nor has any previous edition contained his Letters . The ...
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Page 392 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 81 - The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty ; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Page 414 - And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?
Page 415 - When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick : 17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
Page 283 - All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
Page 268 - Jerusalem, my happy home, When shall I come to thee ? When shall my sorrows have an end, Thy joys when shall I see...
Page 323 - My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him. * He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
Page 120 - The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
Page 143 - He is the chief of the ways of God : he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
Page 204 - Seeing then that we have a great High-priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.