The Names We Bear: a Descriptive Compendium of Biblical, Classical, and Common Names: Compiled So as to Aid Memory, in an Etymological Narrative Form, and a Copious IndexH.A. Long, 1870 - 244 páginas |
Termos e frases comuns
Aholibamah Aiur akin allied ancient appellation applied Arabs Ases ash tree Asir Baal battle beautiful bird birth born bright bull burning called Caphtor Celts Christian connected daughter descendants divine dwelling place earth English fame father feminine field fire French Gaels gave name German given gives glorious glory gods Goths Greek HACHMONI hair Hebrew Hence hill Hindoo honour horse identical Irish island Italian Jehovah Jews John JOKTAN Jotuns king known land language latter Lebaoth lion literally living Loki Lord maker means Milesian mother mountain NAAMAH nations Nethinim noble Odin origin patronymic Pelops persons PHYGELLUS Picts priest prince proper names raven river Roman sacred Saxon Scythians serpent servant Shebarim shield sons Spanish spear star stone strong sword takes thee Thor's thou town unto valley warrior well-known whence wife wolf woman wood word worship ZIBIAH
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Página 33 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow! Lightly they'll talk of the spirit that's gone, And o'er his cold ashes upbraid him — But little he'll reck, if they let him sleep on In the grave where a Briton has laid him.
Página 31 - Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness : According to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
Página 135 - Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
Página 98 - And they joined themselves unto Ba'al-pe'or, and ate the sacrifices of the dead," and as a dead defiles in a tent, so does the same the sacrifice of an idol.
Página 91 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Aegean isle.
Página 172 - And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep : and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.
Página 70 - And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns; and there was no power...
Página 188 - The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear. For several virtues Have I liked several women ; never any With so full soul, but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed And put it to the foil. But you, O you, So perfect and so peerless, are created Of every creature's best!
Página 84 - Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Hamutal; the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.
Página 173 - And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in tents, and of such as have cattle. And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.