The Family Magazine, Or, General Abstract of Useful Knowledge, Volumul 2Redfield & Lindsay, 1835 |
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Pagina 3
... According to the computation of some , they reached that land about eighty years after the Flood , viz . in the year of the world , 1736. Authors differ , however , with regard to this period . Some make it four hundred years after the ...
... According to the computation of some , they reached that land about eighty years after the Flood , viz . in the year of the world , 1736. Authors differ , however , with regard to this period . Some make it four hundred years after the ...
Pagina 6
... according to Strabo , the Face of God , from an idea of its being the end of Lebanon , looked from hence quite insignificant , from being so much lower than our own level ; and the white hills and valleys , over which we had crossed ...
... according to Strabo , the Face of God , from an idea of its being the end of Lebanon , looked from hence quite insignificant , from being so much lower than our own level ; and the white hills and valleys , over which we had crossed ...
Pagina 11
... according to it . 2. All the verbs of the Hebrew tongue , at least all that originally belonged to it , consist uniformly of three letters , and were perhaps at first pronounced as monosyllables ; for it may be the vowels were ...
... according to it . 2. All the verbs of the Hebrew tongue , at least all that originally belonged to it , consist uniformly of three letters , and were perhaps at first pronounced as monosyllables ; for it may be the vowels were ...
Pagina 14
... according to custom , got a small blessed cord , which he constantly wore ; then he went to Rome , where he sojourned for eight or nine months , and wept " in the presence of the tomb of the holy apostles ; " afterwards he visited the ...
... according to custom , got a small blessed cord , which he constantly wore ; then he went to Rome , where he sojourned for eight or nine months , and wept " in the presence of the tomb of the holy apostles ; " afterwards he visited the ...
Pagina 18
... according to climate . Intercourse with different nations , also , introduces variety into language ; but at the same time it tends rather to assimilate the languages of different nations to one another , than to widen the difference ...
... according to climate . Intercourse with different nations , also , introduces variety into language ; but at the same time it tends rather to assimilate the languages of different nations to one another , than to widen the difference ...
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Pagina 215 - Reading maketh. a full man: conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory ; if he confer little he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know that he doth not.
Pagina 239 - Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, That lately sprang and stood In brighter light and softer airs, A beauteous sisterhood ? Alas ! they all are in their graves ; The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds, With the fair and good of ours. The rain is falling where they lie, But the cold November rain Calls not, from out the gloomy earth, The lovely ones again.
Pagina 97 - And he said, thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel : for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Pagina 89 - And yet indeed she is my sister ; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother ; and she became my wife.
Pagina 97 - But unto the sons of the concubines, which Abraham had, Abraham gave gifts, and sent them away from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, eastward, unto the east country.
Pagina 9 - I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake ; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth ; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done. While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Pagina 239 - Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men, And the brightness of their smile was gone from upland, glade, and glen. And now when comes the calm mild day — as still such days will come, To call the squirrel and the bee from out their winter home ; When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, though all the trees are still, And twinkle in the smoky light the waters of the rill, The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore, And sighs to find them...
Pagina 64 - STRANGER, if thou hast learned a truth which needs No school of long experience, that the world Is full of guilt and misery, and hast seen Enough of all its sorrows, crimes, and cares, To tire thee of it, enter this wild wood And view the haunts of Nature.
Pagina 26 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Pagina 215 - ... the head ; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers