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... surface of their country prevented them from con- gregating in large cities ; their institutions were consequently less liable than those of regions more accessible , to be corrupted by the examples of strangers . Of all places on the ...
... surface of their country prevented them from con- gregating in large cities ; their institutions were consequently less liable than those of regions more accessible , to be corrupted by the examples of strangers . Of all places on the ...
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... surface exposed to the fire , the effects of pressure on the boiling point , the quantity of fuel required to convert a given quantity of water into steam - circumstances which had hitherto been vaguely understood , and generally ...
... surface exposed to the fire , the effects of pressure on the boiling point , the quantity of fuel required to convert a given quantity of water into steam - circumstances which had hitherto been vaguely understood , and generally ...
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... surface , snaps at flies , and hunts after small fishes , frogs , and even water - rats . " Though vigilant and cautious in the extreme , the Trout is also bold and active . A Pike and a Trout put into a confined place together , had ...
... surface , snaps at flies , and hunts after small fishes , frogs , and even water - rats . " Though vigilant and cautious in the extreme , the Trout is also bold and active . A Pike and a Trout put into a confined place together , had ...
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... surface , domed over . The sides are enormously thick ; Hearne speaks of one which was " more than eight feet thick in the crown . " A single entrance is made , which is covered with a projecting porch ; and this is invariably at some ...
... surface , domed over . The sides are enormously thick ; Hearne speaks of one which was " more than eight feet thick in the crown . " A single entrance is made , which is covered with a projecting porch ; and this is invariably at some ...
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... surface of the feeder into two or three beam of the scale , into the pan until equal parts . The feeder being con- the scale went down ; the weight was stantly urged , with a slow motion , then taken out , and its equivalent towards the ...
... surface of the feeder into two or three beam of the scale , into the pan until equal parts . The feeder being con- the scale went down ; the weight was stantly urged , with a slow motion , then taken out , and its equivalent towards the ...
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.