The Quarterly Review, Volume 114William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1863 - English literature |
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... rivalled in dimensions the largest living cattle , those of Friesland in North Holland , for example .'- Lyell's ' Antiquity of Man , ' p . 24 . reports reports the taking of one , in which besides other Natural History of the Bible . 53.
... rivalled in dimensions the largest living cattle , those of Friesland in North Holland , for example .'- Lyell's ' Antiquity of Man , ' p . 24 . reports reports the taking of one , in which besides other Natural History of the Bible . 53.
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... living together in a cave , as told by Aulus Gellius . * The ornithology of Palestine is very varied , and the Bible contains several allusions to birds . The migratory habits of some species are especially noticed . ' The stork in the ...
... living together in a cave , as told by Aulus Gellius . * The ornithology of Palestine is very varied , and the Bible contains several allusions to birds . The migratory habits of some species are especially noticed . ' The stork in the ...
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... living in a concentrated solution of salt . In the open tanks at Lymington myriads of these transparent little shrimps , which are about half an inch in length , may be seen swimming actively about in water every pint of which contains ...
... living in a concentrated solution of salt . In the open tanks at Lymington myriads of these transparent little shrimps , which are about half an inch in length , may be seen swimming actively about in water every pint of which contains ...
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... living , on pain of being set to work by the Government . Perhaps , all things considered , this is better than the negro's life in the northern part of the United States . There he is recognised as a free man by a Constitution which ...
... living , on pain of being set to work by the Government . Perhaps , all things considered , this is better than the negro's life in the northern part of the United States . There he is recognised as a free man by a Constitution which ...
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... living on salt pork , which was his abhor- rence , was , however , a great drawback to his resolution ; but with the courage of a martyr he determined to overcome his dislike , and accordingly he made a practice of eating it at every ...
... living on salt pork , which was his abhor- rence , was , however , a great drawback to his resolution ; but with the courage of a martyr he determined to overcome his dislike , and accordingly he made a practice of eating it at every ...
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Page 188 - his own bitterness ; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Page 60 - Thus saith the Lord; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in Damascus in a couch.
Page 63 - And there went forth a wind from the LORD, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, as it were a day's journey on this side, and as it were a day's journey on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth.
Page 238 - And here I prophesy ; — This brawl to-day Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page 187 - And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? "For the living to the dead? To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Page 209 - That the dead are seen no more, said Imlac, I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which...
Page 50 - Tarsus held, or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim th' ocean stream: Him haply slumb'ring on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff, Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 153 - This rambling propensity strengthened with my years. Books of voyages and travels became my passion, and in devouring their contents, I neglected the regular exercises of the school. How wistfully would I wander about the...
Page 74 - And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
Page 70 - The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field: which indeed is the least of all seeds : but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.