The Saturday Magazine, Volume 12J. W. Parker, 1838 - Periodicals |
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... brought down the tower in which they were hung One of these bells is twelve feet in height , and seven in diameter : it is computed to weigh as much as two tons and a half . These bells were cast about three hundred years ago : they are ...
... brought down the tower in which they were hung One of these bells is twelve feet in height , and seven in diameter : it is computed to weigh as much as two tons and a half . These bells were cast about three hundred years ago : they are ...
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... brought into Egypt by one of their mercantile cara- vans , yet they were always viewed with jealousy and suspicion . When the brethren of Joseph , therefore , came down to Egypt for the purchase of corn , it was by no means an ...
... brought into Egypt by one of their mercantile cara- vans , yet they were always viewed with jealousy and suspicion . When the brethren of Joseph , therefore , came down to Egypt for the purchase of corn , it was by no means an ...
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... brought into close contact , is still exem- plified on the north - eastern frontiers of Persia . No- thing can exceed the mutual contempt and rancorous hatred between the Turcomans and Tartars , who lead a nomadic life in the steppes ...
... brought into close contact , is still exem- plified on the north - eastern frontiers of Persia . No- thing can exceed the mutual contempt and rancorous hatred between the Turcomans and Tartars , who lead a nomadic life in the steppes ...
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... brought Jacob's body over the river Jordan , they made a halt for seven days to indulge their sorrow , " and when the inhabitants of the land , the Canaanites , saw the mourning in the floor of Atad , they said , This is a grievous ...
... brought Jacob's body over the river Jordan , they made a halt for seven days to indulge their sorrow , " and when the inhabitants of the land , the Canaanites , saw the mourning in the floor of Atad , they said , This is a grievous ...
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... brought to market they undergo another process , with the two - fold object of giving them an uniform yellow colour , and to make them split more easily . They are dipped into diluted aquafortis or nitric acid , which has the effect ...
... brought to market they undergo another process , with the two - fold object of giving them an uniform yellow colour , and to make them split more easily . They are dipped into diluted aquafortis or nitric acid , which has the effect ...
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Page 237 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Page 148 - And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt: for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
Page 159 - O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page 29 - And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour. And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
Page 143 - Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the last steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way? Vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee wrong, As, darkly painted on the crimson sky, Thy figure floats along.
Page 32 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 109 - And Moses and Aaron did so, as the LORD commanded ; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants ; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.
Page 148 - And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Page 181 - And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
Page 229 - And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances : and she was his only child ; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.