The Guardian, Volumes 6-7H. Harbaugh, 1855 - Conduct of life |
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THE TREES OF THE BIBLE . NO . I.THE ALMOND TREE . BY THE EDITOR . [ In the last number of The Guardian we closed our series of sketches on the Birds of the Bible . We found both pleasure and profit in preparing them , as it led us into ...
THE TREES OF THE BIBLE . NO . I.THE ALMOND TREE . BY THE EDITOR . [ In the last number of The Guardian we closed our series of sketches on the Birds of the Bible . We found both pleasure and profit in preparing them , as it led us into ...
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... tree , is derived from a root which signifies to make haste , to awake early , to watch . This name was suggested from its nature . It is of hasty growth , it is the first tree that feels the genial warmth of the sun in spring- time ...
... tree , is derived from a root which signifies to make haste , to awake early , to watch . This name was suggested from its nature . It is of hasty growth , it is the first tree that feels the genial warmth of the sun in spring- time ...
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... tree . This indicated to them that they were to be watch- ful and quick in their duties . Their influence among the people should be prominent , full of promise , early in fruitfulness , like the almond tree among the other trees . The ...
... tree . This indicated to them that they were to be watch- ful and quick in their duties . Their influence among the people should be prominent , full of promise , early in fruitfulness , like the almond tree among the other trees . The ...
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... tree . So , when you cast your eyes over the community , or over a congregation of people , appears the venerable head of the aged . This crown is an honorable distinction , if there is purity beneath it . " The hoary head is a crown of ...
... tree . So , when you cast your eyes over the community , or over a congregation of people , appears the venerable head of the aged . This crown is an honorable distinction , if there is purity beneath it . " The hoary head is a crown of ...
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THE TREES OF THE BIBLE . NO . II . THE PALM - TREE . BY THX EDITOR . THE Hebrew name of the Palm - tree is Tamar . In the Greek it is called Phoinix . It is sometimes called the Date , though this is properly the name of only its fruit ...
THE TREES OF THE BIBLE . NO . II . THE PALM - TREE . BY THX EDITOR . THE Hebrew name of the Palm - tree is Tamar . In the Greek it is called Phoinix . It is sometimes called the Date , though this is properly the name of only its fruit ...
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Page 167 - A countenance in which did meet Sweet records, promises as sweet; A Creature, not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.
Page 55 - For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
Page 167 - She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovely Apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of Twilight fair; Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair; But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful Dawn; A dancing Shape, an Image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
Page 321 - The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere. Heaped in the hollows of the grove, the autumn leaves lie dead; They rustle to the eddying gust, and to the rabbit's tread ; The robin and the wren are flown, and from the shrubs the jay, And from the wood-top calls the crow through all the gloomy day. Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, that lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, a beauteous sisterhood?
Page 203 - SHE dwelt among the untrodden ways Beside the springs of Dove, A Maid whom there were none to praise, And very few to love. A Violet by a mossy stone Half-hidden from the eye ! — Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.
Page 208 - I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.
Page 240 - As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.
Page 324 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness...
Page 201 - One by one thy griefs shall meet thee, Do not fear an armed band ; One will fade as others greet thee ; Shadows passing through the land.
Page 37 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!