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... Lord Bacon's Essays . In six cheap volumes . The service done to literature , by Prof. Boyd's Annotations upon these standard writers , can with difficulty be estimated . Line by line their ex- pressions and ideas are analyzed and ...
... Lord Bacon's Essays . In six cheap volumes . The service done to literature , by Prof. Boyd's Annotations upon these standard writers , can with difficulty be estimated . Line by line their ex- pressions and ideas are analyzed and ...
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... Lord Bacon's Essays . In six cheap volumes . The service done to literature , by Prof. Boyd's Annota- tions upon these standard writers , can with difficulty be estimated . Line by line their expressions and ideas are analyzed and ...
... Lord Bacon's Essays . In six cheap volumes . The service done to literature , by Prof. Boyd's Annota- tions upon these standard writers , can with difficulty be estimated . Line by line their expressions and ideas are analyzed and ...
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... Jesus said unto him , " Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart . " And the second is like unto it , " Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself . " An indirect quotation does not require the use of a 14 USE OF CAPITALS .
... Jesus said unto him , " Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart . " And the second is like unto it , " Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself . " An indirect quotation does not require the use of a 14 USE OF CAPITALS .
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... lord , the zion of the holy one of israel . and thou shalt know that i the lord am thy saviour , and thy redeemer , the mighty one of jacob . who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions ? they that tarry long at the wine . i ...
... lord , the zion of the holy one of israel . and thou shalt know that i the lord am thy saviour , and thy redeemer , the mighty one of jacob . who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions ? they that tarry long at the wine . i ...
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... Lords Brougham and Macaulay . Any part of speech , used as a noun , or as a mere name , forms the plural like nouns of a similar termination ; as , the ayes and noes ; the ins and outs ; his ands and his buts ; the Websters , the ...
... Lords Brougham and Macaulay . Any part of speech , used as a noun , or as a mere name , forms the plural like nouns of a similar termination ; as , the ayes and noes ; the ins and outs ; his ands and his buts ; the Websters , the ...
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Page 41 - Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.
Page 167 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 58 - And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.
Page 34 - Then shall two be in the field ; the one shall be taken and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill ; the one shall be taken, and the other left.
Page 247 - Return, we beseech thee, O God of Hosts : look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine; And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
Page 247 - Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, So that all they which pass by the way do pluck her? The boar out of the wood doth waste it, And the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
Page 251 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 216 - Homer was the greater genius ; Virgil, the better artist : in the one, we most admire the man ; in the other, the work. Homer hurries us with a commanding impetuosity ; Virgil leads us with an attractive majesty. Homer scatters with a generous profusion ; Virgil bestows with a careful magnificence. Homer, like the Nile, pours out his riches with a sudden overflow ; Virgil, like a river in its banks, with a constant stream.
Page 218 - Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Page 254 - I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: very pleasant hast thou been unto me: thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.