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... rocks more than for several days ; clouds are thickening , indications of rain approaching , and the spray dashes occasionally over the vessel's sides . The wind is cool and damp , but none are complaining yet of sea - sickness . Our ...
... rocks more than for several days ; clouds are thickening , indications of rain approaching , and the spray dashes occasionally over the vessel's sides . The wind is cool and damp , but none are complaining yet of sea - sickness . Our ...
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... rock in the world ) , twenty - seven feet in circumference , and ninety feet high , elevated upon a pedestal twelve , and surmounted by a capital ten feet in height , making the entire altitude one hundred and twelve feet . It has been ...
... rock in the world ) , twenty - seven feet in circumference , and ninety feet high , elevated upon a pedestal twelve , and surmounted by a capital ten feet in height , making the entire altitude one hundred and twelve feet . It has been ...
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... Rock Island about sun down , on the fast packet J. McKey , bound down the river , and as I sat on the deck enjoy- ing a cigar , and watching the dim lights of the city , as they receded into the fast gathering shades of evening , I felt ...
... Rock Island about sun down , on the fast packet J. McKey , bound down the river , and as I sat on the deck enjoy- ing a cigar , and watching the dim lights of the city , as they receded into the fast gathering shades of evening , I felt ...
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... rocks of England , that crop out between London and Bristol , and are admirably fitted for building purposes . They can be easily got out of the quarry , in what- ever size they may be wanted ; are so soft , at first , as to be easily ...
... rocks of England , that crop out between London and Bristol , and are admirably fitted for building purposes . They can be easily got out of the quarry , in what- ever size they may be wanted ; are so soft , at first , as to be easily ...
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... rock , as nearly as anything else ; while its top looks as though , in its efforts to throw out its branches , it had met with some antagonistic force which cramped them prodigiously . But the top is admirably adjusted to the body ...
... rock , as nearly as anything else ; while its top looks as though , in its efforts to throw out its branches , it had met with some antagonistic force which cramped them prodigiously . But the top is admirably adjusted to the body ...
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Page 390 - For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, 'The just shall live by faith.'.
Page 568 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 507 - And he arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.
Page 149 - Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write ,upon him my new name.
Page 291 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not; in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Page 262 - Son of man, dig now in the wall." And when I had digged in the wall, behold a door: and he said unto me, "Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
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Page 102 - Like sheep they are laid in the grave ; Death shall feed on them; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning ; And their cbeauty shall consume din the grave from their dwelling.
Page 264 - And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth : and Ham is the father of Canaan. 19 These are the three sons of Noah : and of them was the whole earth overspread.
Page 262 - So I went in and saw ; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about.