The Living Age, Volume 87E. Littell & Company, 1865 |
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... side of the trunk of its support- er . It then puts forth , from each side an arm- like branch , which grows rapidly , and looks as though a stream of sap were flowing and hard- ening as it went . This adheres closely to the trunk of ...
... side of the trunk of its support- er . It then puts forth , from each side an arm- like branch , which grows rapidly , and looks as though a stream of sap were flowing and hard- ening as it went . This adheres closely to the trunk of ...
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... sides and top of the head , the erect spear - shaped appen- dage on the tip of the nose , the grin , and glis- tening black eye , all combining to make up a figure that reminds one of some mocking imp of fable . No wonder that ...
... sides and top of the head , the erect spear - shaped appen- dage on the tip of the nose , the grin , and glis- tening black eye , all combining to make up a figure that reminds one of some mocking imp of fable . No wonder that ...
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... side balancing themselves with a rocking motion , vachts on a calm day . Such an entomological or the other , resembling a crowded fleet of display cannot be surpassed . Cicindela and the great Cicadea were everywhere lighting on the ...
... side balancing themselves with a rocking motion , vachts on a calm day . Such an entomological or the other , resembling a crowded fleet of display cannot be surpassed . Cicindela and the great Cicadea were everywhere lighting on the ...
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... side to side , at a short distance from each After describing these flowers in botani- other . The whole leaf looks as if composed of cal terms , Dr. Hooker adds , " The mature fine tendrils , wrought after a most regular pat- cone is ...
... side to side , at a short distance from each After describing these flowers in botani- other . The whole leaf looks as if composed of cal terms , Dr. Hooker adds , " The mature fine tendrils , wrought after a most regular pat- cone is ...
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... side . For if the old constitutional rule be allowed to work after emancipation , the freedmen will not only be no political bene- fit to the Northern States ; their extermi- nation would be necessary in order to put the Northern States ...
... side . For if the old constitutional rule be allowed to work after emancipation , the freedmen will not only be no political bene- fit to the Northern States ; their extermi- nation would be necessary in order to put the Northern States ...
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Page 81 - And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations : and he shall rule them with a rod of iron : and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.
Page 478 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 243 - I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world ; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.
Page 75 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God, for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man. "But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Page 478 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless.
Page 478 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 80 - And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
Page 242 - He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
Page 472 - Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play; For some must watch, while some must sleep; So runs the world away.
Page 242 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!