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... called the Hebrides , or Western Islands of Scotland . It is of an irregular oval shape , about a mile and a half across , and is a sort of table - land , supported by cliffs of various heights . These cliffs are formed of a stone called ...
... called the Hebrides , or Western Islands of Scotland . It is of an irregular oval shape , about a mile and a half across , and is a sort of table - land , supported by cliffs of various heights . These cliffs are formed of a stone called ...
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... called Adamson . " Oh ! yes , ma'am , " he said , pointing to the house just behind him , " I'll tell my sister that a lady wants her . " I saw that he was trying to go faster than he could conveniently , so I told him I would step in ...
... called Adamson . " Oh ! yes , ma'am , " he said , pointing to the house just behind him , " I'll tell my sister that a lady wants her . " I saw that he was trying to go faster than he could conveniently , so I told him I would step in ...
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... called by the ancients " the wool of trees ; " and , although it differs greatly in its properties from the animal fleece , the term is still retained . The Germans call it baumwolle , or tree- wool , and the French coton en laine ...
... called by the ancients " the wool of trees ; " and , although it differs greatly in its properties from the animal fleece , the term is still retained . The Germans call it baumwolle , or tree- wool , and the French coton en laine ...
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... called the blast , is occasioned by ex- cessive moisture , whereby the roots rot and the plant perishes . This often happens in land which has not been properly drained . In wet seasons the plant is sometimes subject to a sort of over ...
... called the blast , is occasioned by ex- cessive moisture , whereby the roots rot and the plant perishes . This often happens in land which has not been properly drained . In wet seasons the plant is sometimes subject to a sort of over ...
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... called moting . In order to cleanse the cotton entirely from any remaining fragment of seed , it is subjected to another process . This consists of whisking it about in a light wheel , through which a current of air is made to pass . As ...
... called moting . In order to cleanse the cotton entirely from any remaining fragment of seed , it is subjected to another process . This consists of whisking it about in a light wheel , through which a current of air is made to pass . As ...
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Page 264 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 236 - I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Page 178 - O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.
Page 2 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
Page 134 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold ; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not ; in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Page 2 - I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; that then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.
Page 95 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 291 - I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house. Also I had great possessions of great and small cattle, above all that were in Jerusalem before me. I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings ; and of the provinces I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts ; so I was great and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem.
Page 601 - And the man of God said, Where fell it ? And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.