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... whole assortment . A sketch of their characters may be of interest to you . Our table in the main cabin is to the left of the door as you enter ; on the other side a longer table stretches half the extent of the cabin , at the head of ...
... whole assortment . A sketch of their characters may be of interest to you . Our table in the main cabin is to the left of the door as you enter ; on the other side a longer table stretches half the extent of the cabin , at the head of ...
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... 16. 35 , abreast of Torey Island , to Liverpool , Miles . Dist . 296 66 46 66 64 295 301 289 268 1449 1598 % 1598 % Whole distance from New York , 8,048 ARRIVAL - INSPECTION . 13 As the night came on 12 NOTES OF FOREIGN TRAVEL.
... 16. 35 , abreast of Torey Island , to Liverpool , Miles . Dist . 296 66 46 66 64 295 301 289 268 1449 1598 % 1598 % Whole distance from New York , 8,048 ARRIVAL - INSPECTION . 13 As the night came on 12 NOTES OF FOREIGN TRAVEL.
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... whole time before the commencement of the discourse , was looking out and walking around to discern vacant seats , and escort strangers to them . Our position was assigned us near the reading desk , in front of the pulpit . Sitting on ...
... whole time before the commencement of the discourse , was looking out and walking around to discern vacant seats , and escort strangers to them . Our position was assigned us near the reading desk , in front of the pulpit . Sitting on ...
Page 20
... whole , rejuvenated , by bathing in the sweet influ- ences of home . Outside , the rough world - sea tosses , bleak winds whistle : home is the Ark in which we ride : warm it well with all loving care - feed its heart - fires with ...
... whole , rejuvenated , by bathing in the sweet influ- ences of home . Outside , the rough world - sea tosses , bleak winds whistle : home is the Ark in which we ride : warm it well with all loving care - feed its heart - fires with ...
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... whole house draped in a deeper gloom . It is a custom here , for the female members of the bereaved family to shut themselves up , and resign themselves to grief , until " the days of their mourning are ended , " or , until the departed ...
... whole house draped in a deeper gloom . It is a custom here , for the female members of the bereaved family to shut themselves up , and resign themselves to grief , until " the days of their mourning are ended , " or , until the departed ...
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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.
Page 106 - NOBLES AND COMMONERS OF THE REALM RAISED THIS MONUMENT TO JAMES WATT WHO DIRECTING THE FORCE OF AN ORIGINAL GENIUS EARLY EXERCISED IN PHILOSOPHIC RESEARCH TO THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE STEAM ENGINE ENLARGED THE RESOURCES OF HIS COUNTRY INCREASED THE POWER OF MAN AND ROSE TO AN EMINENT PLACE AMONG THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS FOLLOWERS OF SCIENCE AND THE REAL BENEFACTORS OF THE WORLD BORN At GREENOCK MDCCXXXVI DIED AT HEATHFIELD IN STAFFORDSHIRE MDCCCXIX.
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.