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... usually fatal , but the vicinity of the sea is fa- vourable to the production of the best cotton . The salt clay mud is an excel- lent manure , and the saline breezes promote the growth of the plant . The places in which the celebrated ...
... usually fatal , but the vicinity of the sea is fa- vourable to the production of the best cotton . The salt clay mud is an excel- lent manure , and the saline breezes promote the growth of the plant . The places in which the celebrated ...
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... usually held under the left arm , and the fibres were drawn out from the projecting ball , being at the same time spirally twisted by the forefinger and thumb of the right hand . The thread so produced was spun by the turning round of ...
... usually held under the left arm , and the fibres were drawn out from the projecting ball , being at the same time spirally twisted by the forefinger and thumb of the right hand . The thread so produced was spun by the turning round of ...
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... usually pursued passes at a little distance ... " As Cæsarea was the usual residence of the Roman governor , it was the scene of more numerous cruelties than any other part of Palestine during the heathen persecutions . The ...
... usually pursued passes at a little distance ... " As Cæsarea was the usual residence of the Roman governor , it was the scene of more numerous cruelties than any other part of Palestine during the heathen persecutions . The ...
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... usually determined by the facility with which water - power , fuel , and iron can be obtained ; for , where they are abundant , machinery can be made and put in motion at small cost and , in this respect , many parts of Lanca- shire and ...
... usually determined by the facility with which water - power , fuel , and iron can be obtained ; for , where they are abundant , machinery can be made and put in motion at small cost and , in this respect , many parts of Lanca- shire and ...
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... usually numerous in these primeval seats of human habitation . Mr. Ains- worth enumerates wheat , barley , guinea - corn ( of two kinds ) , lentils , chick- peas , two kinds of vetches , peas , kidney - beans , and medick . Esculent ...
... usually numerous in these primeval seats of human habitation . Mr. Ains- worth enumerates wheat , barley , guinea - corn ( of two kinds ) , lentils , chick- peas , two kinds of vetches , peas , kidney - beans , and medick . Esculent ...
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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.