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... hand of man ; the lofty columns are like those of a cathedral , supporting a richly carved roof , adorned with various hues , while the ends of innumerable small columns of basalt give the ground the appearance of a tessellated pavement ...
... hand of man ; the lofty columns are like those of a cathedral , supporting a richly carved roof , adorned with various hues , while the ends of innumerable small columns of basalt give the ground the appearance of a tessellated pavement ...
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... hand in March and the two following months , according to the season . It is planted in rows five feet asunder , and in holes eighteen inches apart , in each of which several seeds are placed . The land is carefully weeded at short ...
... hand in March and the two following months , according to the season . It is planted in rows five feet asunder , and in holes eighteen inches apart , in each of which several seeds are placed . The land is carefully weeded at short ...
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... hand , as it is in some parts of India , a man can scarcely clean more than a pound of cotton in a day . In other parts of India , as also in China , a rude hand- mill , or roller - gin , is employed . It consists of two fluted wooden ...
... hand , as it is in some parts of India , a man can scarcely clean more than a pound of cotton in a day . In other parts of India , as also in China , a rude hand- mill , or roller - gin , is employed . It consists of two fluted wooden ...
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... hand - mill and the bow have been used from time imme- morial in many parts of Asia , and they were formerly used in America , whence the term bowed Georgia cotton still retained in commerce . The long - stapled , or sea - island cot ...
... hand - mill and the bow have been used from time imme- morial in many parts of Asia , and they were formerly used in America , whence the term bowed Georgia cotton still retained in commerce . The long - stapled , or sea - island cot ...
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... hand . A friend who came to visit his father was annoyed at seeing the boy so idle , and told his father that he ought to send him to school , and not suffer him to trifle away his early years in such a manner . The father whispered a ...
... hand . A friend who came to visit his father was annoyed at seeing the boy so idle , and told his father that he ought to send him to school , and not suffer him to trifle away his early years in such a manner . The father whispered a ...
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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.