The automatical camera-obscura; exhibiting scenes from nature [&c.].

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Page 211 - Beneath the shelter of encircling hills, A myrtle rises, far from human eye, And breathes its balmy fragrance o'er the wild ; So flourish'd, blooming, and unseen by all, The sweet Lavinia ; till, at length, compell'd By strong Necessity's supreme command, With smiling patience In her looks, she went To glean Palemon's fields.
Page 210 - The lovely young Lavinia once had friends ; And Fortune smil'd, deceitful, on her birth. For, in her helpless years depriv'd of all. Of every stay, save Innocence and Heaven, She, with her widow'd mother, feeble, old. And poor, liv'd in a cottage, far retir'd Among the windings of a woody vale; By solitude and deep surrounding shades, But more by bashful modesty, conceal'd.
Page 57 - They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.
Page 220 - And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard ; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the LORD your God.
Page 186 - ... separate apartments. These tents are kept firm and steady by bracing or stretching down their eves with cords, tied to hooked wooden pins, well pointed, which they drive into the ground with a mallet...
Page 9 - By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season ; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt : for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.
Page 178 - And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom ye fight.
Page 137 - Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
Page 221 - It is the opinion of some writers, that although the poor were allowed the liberty of gleaning, the Israelitish proprietors were not obliged to admit them immediately into the field, as soon as the reapers had cut down the corn, and bound it up in sheaves, but when it was carried off; they might choose also among the poor, whom they thought most deserving or most necessitous. These opinions receive some countenance from the request which Ruth presented to the servant of Boaz, to permit her to glean...
Page 142 - Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same ; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, and deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

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