The Chautauquan: Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, Volume 2M. Bailey, 1882 - Chautauquas |
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... land . Pastoral and agricultural occupations still engross the attention of the Israelites ; simple habits prevail ; there is no wealthy class ; the monarch , like the judges , has no court , no palace , no extraordinary retinue ; he is ...
... land . Pastoral and agricultural occupations still engross the attention of the Israelites ; simple habits prevail ; there is no wealthy class ; the monarch , like the judges , has no court , no palace , no extraordinary retinue ; he is ...
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... Land and the Euphrates . At least three great battles were fought , with the result that the entire tract between the Jordan and the Euphrates was added to the Israelite territory . A campaign reduced Edom , and extended the kingdom to ...
... Land and the Euphrates . At least three great battles were fought , with the result that the entire tract between the Jordan and the Euphrates was added to the Israelite territory . A campaign reduced Edom , and extended the kingdom to ...
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... land lies north . Therefore , its temperature is very high , Nearly all the land is in either tropical or temperate climates ; and yet it escapes be-- ing burnt up as it would naturally be , by reason of the great elevations of the land ...
... land lies north . Therefore , its temperature is very high , Nearly all the land is in either tropical or temperate climates ; and yet it escapes be-- ing burnt up as it would naturally be , by reason of the great elevations of the land ...
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... land which may be called bar- barous . Some of the barbarous kingdoms are of great ex- tent . In other portions the social condition is that of a peo- ple who have been broken up and disintegrated , and have very little civil coherence ...
... land which may be called bar- barous . Some of the barbarous kingdoms are of great ex- tent . In other portions the social condition is that of a peo- ple who have been broken up and disintegrated , and have very little civil coherence ...
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... land were buried alive , and blood sprinkled on her grave , and then the cattle driven over it , as was their custom . Not content with this , a year of mourning was commanded by the king , and an army of observation of ten thousand men ...
... land were buried alive , and blood sprinkled on her grave , and then the cattle driven over it , as was their custom . Not content with this , a year of mourning was commanded by the king , and an army of observation of ten thousand men ...
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Page 117 - Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart, Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth, and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice...
Page 117 - Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim Thy growth, to be resolved to earth again, And, lost each human trace, surrendering up Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix forever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon.
Page 117 - Take the wings Of morning, and the Barcan desert pierce, Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Page 277 - For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 94 - There are who ask not if thine eye Be on them; who, in love and truth, Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth : Glad Hearts! without reproach or blot; Who do thy work, and know it not : Oh ! if through confidence misplaced They fail, thy saving arms, dread Power I around them cast.
Page 326 - Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.' At present, perhaps, you may think yourselves in thriving circumstances, and that you can bear a little extravagance without injury ; but ' For age and want save while you may; No morning sun lasts a whole...
Page 325 - And again, Three Removes is as bad as a Fire; and again, Keep thy Shop, and thy Shop will keep thee; and again, If you would have your Business done, go; if not, send. And again, He that by the Plough would thrive. Himself must either hold or drive.
Page 277 - I loved a love once, fairest among women ; Closed are her doors on me, I must not see her — All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. I have a friend, a kinder friend has no man ; Like an ingrate, I left my friend abruptly ; Left him, to muse on the old familiar faces.
Page 118 - God ! when thou Dost scare the world with tempests, set on fire The heavens with falling thunderbolts, or fill, With all the waters of the firmament, The swift dark whirlwind that uproots...
Page 326 - This doctrine, my friends, is reason and wisdom ; but, after all, do not depend too much upon your own industry and frugality and prudence, though excellent things, for they may all be blasted, without the blessing of Heaven ; and therefore ask that blessing humbly, and be not uncharitable to those that at present seem to want it, but comfort and help them. Remember Job suffered and was afterward prosperous. " And now, to conclude, Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other...