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... troops rushed gallantly towards the breach- es on the side of the Birmula Gate and the castle of St. Michael , and in a short space , a small corps of Algerines displayed their ensigns in several points of the parapet . A murderous 2.
... troops rushed gallantly towards the breach- es on the side of the Birmula Gate and the castle of St. Michael , and in a short space , a small corps of Algerines displayed their ensigns in several points of the parapet . A murderous 2.
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... side of the besieged . The garrison had by this time become greatly diminished , the walls were mined in every direction , many of the outworks were in the hands of the Turks , and the Knights advised the grandmaster to blow them up and ...
... side of the besieged . The garrison had by this time become greatly diminished , the walls were mined in every direction , many of the outworks were in the hands of the Turks , and the Knights advised the grandmaster to blow them up and ...
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... side , how- ever , and the southern extremity , consist each of a series of precipices or declivities which admit of being ascended . The town , now containing a population of above 17,000 persons , is built on the west side . Along the ...
... side , how- ever , and the southern extremity , consist each of a series of precipices or declivities which admit of being ascended . The town , now containing a population of above 17,000 persons , is built on the west side . Along the ...
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... side the vent ; the body is compres- sed , inflated towards the middle ; the tail is prehensile ; the scales small ... sides . The name " constrictor " is derived from the ter- rible muscular power by which it crushes to death the ...
... side the vent ; the body is compres- sed , inflated towards the middle ; the tail is prehensile ; the scales small ... sides . The name " constrictor " is derived from the ter- rible muscular power by which it crushes to death the ...
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... side seat , This was thy chamber , where each day , I sat and watched thy sad decay ; Here on this bed thou last didst lie , Here , on this pillow , thou didst die ! Dark hour ! once more its woes unfold- As then I saw thee pale and ...
... side seat , This was thy chamber , where each day , I sat and watched thy sad decay ; Here on this bed thou last didst lie , Here , on this pillow , thou didst die ! Dark hour ! once more its woes unfold- As then I saw thee pale and ...
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Popular passages
Page 79 - And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
Page 212 - Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) 2.
Page 164 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 168 - The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom : a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
Page 260 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 48 - Like to the falling of a star; Or as the flights of eagles are; Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue; Or silver drops of morning dew; Or like a wind that chafes the flood; Or bubbles which on water stood; Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to night. The wind blows out; the bubble dies; The spring entombed in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past; and man forgot.
Page 39 - The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Page 240 - Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, — Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore.
Page 87 - And when it was day, they knew not the land : but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
Page 130 - ROCK of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee ! Let the water and the blood, From Thy riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its guilt and power.