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Abbassides Adams County anguish Bard battle beam beauty Beauty's behold beneath BENJAMIN HOWARD blest bliss bloom blush bosom brave breast bright Carthage charms cherish Cimmerian clime clouds dark dead death decay deeds deep doth dreadful dwelling E'en earth Egypt Ethiopia Euphrates fade fair falchion fame flame flowers foes forest fragrant Freedom gaze genius glorious glory glory's golden reign Governor of Kentucky Greece hath heart heaven heroes honours hopes hurled immortal Jaxartes Lexington light lingering lone lyre mouldering Natchez nations ne'er neath night NOTE o'er thy offspring Ommiades Persia plain pride radiance rapture reign relics repose rise roll ruins scenes Scythians shade shed shine shore silent smile soar sorrow soul spirit splendour spring star strains sway sweet swell tears tell tempest temples thee thine thou tide tomb towering Transylvania University tread triumph twilight virtue's virtues warriors wave weep wild wrath
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Page 188 - AND it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Page 188 - There were giants in the earth in those days ; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children unto them, the same became mighty men, which were of old, men of renown.
Page 193 - When they advance to battle, the hope of victory is in the front ; in the rear, the assurance of a retreat. Their horses and camels, who in eight or ten days can perform a march of four or five hundred miles, disappear before the conqueror ; the secret waters of the desert elude his search ; and his victorious troops are consumed with...
Page 193 - ... the arms of Sesostris and Cyrus, of Pompey and Trajan, could never achieve the conquest of Arabia ; the present sovereign of the Turks may exercise a shadow of jurisdiction, but his pride is reduced to solicit the friendship of a people, whom it is dangerous to provoke and fruitless to attack.
Page 200 - Turkish ungarrisoned castle, besides which you see nothing here but a mere Babel of broken walls, pillars, vaults, &c., there being not so much as one entire house left. Its present inhabitants are only a few poor wretches, harbouring themselves in the vaults, and subsisting chiefly upon fishing, who seem to be preserved in this place by Divine Providence, as a visible argument how God has fulfilled his word concerning Tyre, viz.
Page 200 - On the north side, it has an old Turkish ungarrisoned castle ; besides which, you see nothing here but a mere Babel of broken walls, pillars, vaults, &c. ; there being not so much as one entire house left. Its present inhabitants are only a few poor wretches harbouring themselves in the vaults, and subsisting chiefly upon fishing...
Page 62 - Two principles in human nature reign, Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain; Nor this a good, nor that a bad we call, Each works its end, to move or govern all: And to their proper operation still, Ascribe all good: to their improper, ill.
Page 193 - Mahomet, their intrepid valour had been severely felt by their neighbours in offensive and defensive war. The patient and active virtues of a soldier are insensibly nursed in the habits and discipline of a pastoral life. The care of the sheep and camels is abandoned to the women of the tribe ; but the martial youth, under the banner of the emir, is ever on horseback and in the field, to practise the exercise of the bow, the javelin, and the scymetar.
Page 190 - Argive of no note, the son of a poor old woman. This woman, among others, looking upon the fight from the roof of a house, beheld her son thus engaged. Seized with terror at the sight, she took up a large tile witli both hands, and threw it at Pyrrhus.