The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Volume 3Francis S. Wiggins, 1833 |
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... Ruins of Teutyra 24 Berlin 25 Ruins of Moab 26 North Cape 27 Steele · 194 28 Cazenovia Seminary 29 Fingal's Cave 30 Falls of Wilberforce 192 57 Three illustrations of 197 58 Five illustrations of the 200 Peach Insect 12 Apple 16 56 130 ...
... Ruins of Teutyra 24 Berlin 25 Ruins of Moab 26 North Cape 27 Steele · 194 28 Cazenovia Seminary 29 Fingal's Cave 30 Falls of Wilberforce 192 57 Three illustrations of 197 58 Five illustrations of the 200 Peach Insect 12 Apple 16 56 130 ...
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... Ruins of Genessee Bridge 128 Cataract of the Nile Calcutta 338 The Geysers Benares 363 The Mysteries of Creation Fecundity of Plants Ancient Temple of Lekket 367 Mount Vernon 375 DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL Floating Gardens of Cashmere 389 ...
... Ruins of Genessee Bridge 128 Cataract of the Nile Calcutta 338 The Geysers Benares 363 The Mysteries of Creation Fecundity of Plants Ancient Temple of Lekket 367 Mount Vernon 375 DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL Floating Gardens of Cashmere 389 ...
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... Ruins of Moab Example better than Precept The Indian Fig Ancient Grandeur of Mediter- ranean Africa 99 Adversity • 44 127 Retrospection 104 147 Attributes of Man 116 165 Judea 123 the Autumn 135 183 Anecdote of Baxter 137 189 Human Life ...
... Ruins of Moab Example better than Precept The Indian Fig Ancient Grandeur of Mediter- ranean Africa 99 Adversity • 44 127 Retrospection 104 147 Attributes of Man 116 165 Judea 123 the Autumn 135 183 Anecdote of Baxter 137 189 Human Life ...
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... ruins spoken of are placed , be- ing undoubtedly the same with the valley of Ajalon named in the scriptures . - Buckingham's Travels among the Arab Tribes . FORM OF ANCIENT BOOKS AND SCROLLS , PARTICULARLY THOSE MENTIONED IN THE ...
... ruins spoken of are placed , be- ing undoubtedly the same with the valley of Ajalon named in the scriptures . - Buckingham's Travels among the Arab Tribes . FORM OF ANCIENT BOOKS AND SCROLLS , PARTICULARLY THOSE MENTIONED IN THE ...
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... ruins of Herculaneum , a once famous city of Italy , which was destroyed by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius , A. D. 79 . The hypocrite shows the excellency of virtue by the ne- cessity he thinks himself under of seeming to be virtuous ...
... ruins of Herculaneum , a once famous city of Italy , which was destroyed by an eruption of Mount Vesuvius , A. D. 79 . The hypocrite shows the excellency of virtue by the ne- cessity he thinks himself under of seeming to be virtuous ...
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Ajalon ancient animal appear arch Asphaltites beautiful body breath bright called cataract Christian church clouds covered cultivated dark dead Dead Sea death deep delightful distance earth Egypt Falls father feel feet fire flowers friends fruit Gibeon glory grave hath heart heaven height hills holy Horseshoe Fall human hundred inhabitants insect island Jericho Jordan Josephus Judea lake Lake George land lava light living lofty Lord miles mind moon Mount mountain mouth Nassau Hall nature nearly never night o'er observed Palestine pass plain plants pleasure present rise river river Ta rock round ruins scene Scriptures seen side situated soul species spirit spot spring stars stone Strabo stream summit surrounded Tattler Tentyra thee thing thou thought thousand tion tivated Torre del Greco town traveller trees valley volcano walls whole winds wings
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Page 29 - Thou shalt ° not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Page 348 - And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.
Page 180 - Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood Stand dressed in living green, So to the Jews old Canaan stood, While Jordan rolled between.
Page 226 - And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with wrath, and rose up, and thrust Him out of the city, and led Him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast Him down headlong.
Page 210 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears ; soft stillness, and the night, Become the touches of swedt harmony.
Page 140 - It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves ; springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Page 144 - If Thou be one whose heart the holy forms Of young imagination have kept pure, Stranger ! henceforth be warned; and know that pride, Howe'er disguised in its own majesty, Is littleness ; that he who feels contempt For any living thing, hath faculties Which he has never used ; that thought with him Is in its infancy.
Page 57 - Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow ? or will he harrow the valleys after thee...
Page 210 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 403 - It is a happy world after all. The air, the earth, the water, teem with delighted existence. In a spring noon, or a summer evening, on whichever side I turn my eyes, myriads of happy beings crowd upon my view. " The insect youth are on the wing.