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... round stones were used , and in modern times taws , or little bails of brown clay , hardened in fire , which were called taws from their taway colour . The Dutch made their little play - balls of alabaster , brought them down the river ...
... round stones were used , and in modern times taws , or little bails of brown clay , hardened in fire , which were called taws from their taway colour . The Dutch made their little play - balls of alabaster , brought them down the river ...
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... round the earth , and the earth round the sun ; and , as their forces are never spent , their motions never cease . Throwing stones in the streets is a very bad and dangerous practice . In throwing , working , walking , and in all kinds ...
... round the earth , and the earth round the sun ; and , as their forces are never spent , their motions never cease . Throwing stones in the streets is a very bad and dangerous practice . In throwing , working , walking , and in all kinds ...
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Young people. • the side . The air , as the top rapidly spins round , causes a vibration , as in an organ - pipe , and thus produces a sound . Come , let us go to our swing . Here is a wonderful power ! It is the power which works in all ...
Young people. • the side . The air , as the top rapidly spins round , causes a vibration , as in an organ - pipe , and thus produces a sound . Come , let us go to our swing . Here is a wonderful power ! It is the power which works in all ...
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... round thee press , Asking thee their babes to bless ; Our own mothers ask thee , too , Holy Jesus ; hear them , now ! Bless and make us thine . Bless us now , this festal day , Lord , thy hands upon us lay ; Let us hear and know thy ...
... round thee press , Asking thee their babes to bless ; Our own mothers ask thee , too , Holy Jesus ; hear them , now ! Bless and make us thine . Bless us now , this festal day , Lord , thy hands upon us lay ; Let us hear and know thy ...
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... motion of its own , for it merrily turns itself round . It cannot go without spinning . The air causes it to spin as it causes windmill sails to revolve . Windmills have been in use a thousand 40 SCIENCE IN PLAYTHINGS .
... motion of its own , for it merrily turns itself round . It cannot go without spinning . The air causes it to spin as it causes windmill sails to revolve . Windmills have been in use a thousand 40 SCIENCE IN PLAYTHINGS .
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Page 92 - By faith he (Abraham) sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise : for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God
Page 64 - in 1 Kings vi. 7 :—" And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither : so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
Page 204 - Unto John's baptism ; then said Paul, John verily baptised with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people that they should believe on Him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus. When they heard this they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Page 93 - overcome them, and kill them. And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see
Page 47 - is God's throne ; nor by the earth, for it is His footstool ; neither by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Neither shalt thon swear by thy head ; because thon canst not make one hair, white or
Page 90 - Thus—" He that committeth sin is of the devil ; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose was the Son of God manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil
Page 63 - Yet once it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens and the earth, and the sea, and the dry laud ; and I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come.
Page 36 - 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
Page 139 - Tea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord
Page 266 - Behold the fire and the wood : but where is the lamb for a burnt offering ? And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for