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... heard religious , sophists discuss this knotty point about the moral and ceremonial laws with uncommon ingenuity . Whenever any of the precepts or commandments found in the five books of Moses or indeed in any part of the Old or New ...
... heard religious , sophists discuss this knotty point about the moral and ceremonial laws with uncommon ingenuity . Whenever any of the precepts or commandments found in the five books of Moses or indeed in any part of the Old or New ...
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... heard amid the branches . The Hill of Life appeared before him , and he set his face toward the summit of the mountain . The ascent is known by the name of Youth : it was easy and delightful . A female form of the most angelic appear ...
... heard amid the branches . The Hill of Life appeared before him , and he set his face toward the summit of the mountain . The ascent is known by the name of Youth : it was easy and delightful . A female form of the most angelic appear ...
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... heard from the temple , inviting the approaches of all ; but the attempt to obey the invitation was attended with danger . Every one was desirous to enter , in order to leave some me- morial of having performed the journey of life ; but ...
... heard from the temple , inviting the approaches of all ; but the attempt to obey the invitation was attended with danger . Every one was desirous to enter , in order to leave some me- morial of having performed the journey of life ; but ...
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... heard but the screaming of the raven from the " lightning - blasted oak , " and the hooting of the owl from the moldering turret . He en- tered the valley of Old Age . The air became dark . The funereal cypress overshadowed his path ...
... heard but the screaming of the raven from the " lightning - blasted oak , " and the hooting of the owl from the moldering turret . He en- tered the valley of Old Age . The air became dark . The funereal cypress overshadowed his path ...
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... heard among the hills , or the eastern breeze sigh amid the tops of the pines . We rejoice : whether the south wind breathe on spicy groves , or the gales of the evening curl the glassy bosom of the lake . We rejoice : and we wish to ...
... heard among the hills , or the eastern breeze sigh amid the tops of the pines . We rejoice : whether the south wind breathe on spicy groves , or the gales of the evening curl the glassy bosom of the lake . We rejoice : and we wish to ...
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Page 289 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 78 - 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 to them, the same became mighty men that were of old, men of renown.
Page 10 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 156 - Why, what should be the fear ? I do not set my life at a pin's fee ; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself ? It waves me forth again : I'll follow it.
Page 202 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 225 - The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting.
Page 301 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep: All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Beth day and night.
Page 217 - For pronunciation the best general rule is, to consider those as the most elegant speakers who deviate least from the written words.