Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volumes 51-52John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1861 - American periodicals |
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... sent continuously , and in its perfect truth , by every electric wire upon the face of the earth ; but the agency that recently thus carried it , amid the currents of the agi- tated sea , has since been mute -- as if to teach us , with ...
... sent continuously , and in its perfect truth , by every electric wire upon the face of the earth ; but the agency that recently thus carried it , amid the currents of the agi- tated sea , has since been mute -- as if to teach us , with ...
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... sent forth by the females of Lebanon in times of deep distress . This woman is a Maronite . There are thou- sands in this helpless position as we write ; and they tell us that the men by whom the warfare has been principally carried on ...
... sent forth by the females of Lebanon in times of deep distress . This woman is a Maronite . There are thou- sands in this helpless position as we write ; and they tell us that the men by whom the warfare has been principally carried on ...
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... sent search for him would be attended with less attached to his faith than its other disappointment ; but that when the times adherents . It is supposed that Darasi should be more propitious , he would again perished in a battle with ...
... sent search for him would be attended with less attached to his faith than its other disappointment ; but that when the times adherents . It is supposed that Darasi should be more propitious , he would again perished in a battle with ...
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... sent monasteries are said to have been de- him secretly as a sort of missionary into stroyed by his orders in Syria and Egypt , Syria , supplying him with money , and and the Jewish synagogues shared the enjoining him to promulgate his ...
... sent monasteries are said to have been de- him secretly as a sort of missionary into stroyed by his orders in Syria and Egypt , Syria , supplying him with money , and and the Jewish synagogues shared the enjoining him to promulgate his ...
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... sent a number of missionaries into various parts of Egypt and Syria , who taught a licentious doctrine , permitting incestuous alliances with sisters , daughters , and mo- thers , and suppressed all the external ob- servances of ...
... sent a number of missionaries into various parts of Egypt and Syria , who taught a licentious doctrine , permitting incestuous alliances with sisters , daughters , and mo- thers , and suppressed all the external ob- servances of ...
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Page 141 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he, who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 511 - And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?
Page 509 - I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Page 2 - The voice of the Lord is powerful, the voice of the Lord is full of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars ; yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
Page 506 - This round of green, this orb of flame, Fantastic beauty ; such as lurks In some wild Poet, when he works Without a conscience or an aim. What then were God to such as I...
Page 141 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Page 507 - I wage not any feud with Death For changes wrought on form and face; No lower life that earth's embrace May breed with him, can fright my faith. Eternal process moving on, From state to state the spirit walks; And these are but the shatter'd stalks, Or ruin'd chrysalis of one.
Page 564 - With a, full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHROP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Page 508 - He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind, He faced the spectres of the mind And laid them : thus he came at length To find a stronger faith his own ; And Power was with him in the night, Which makes the darkness and the light, And dwells not in the light alone, But in the darkness and the cloud, As over Sinai's peaks of old, While Israel made their gods of gold, Altho
Page 508 - Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds, At last he beat his music out. There lives more faith in honest doubt, Believe me, than in half the creeds.