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... and lettered at one shilling . -eeee The MALTA PENNY MAGAZINE is published and sent to Subscribers , in Valetta , every Saturday . Subscriptions at 18. per quarter received at No.97 Str . Forni . No. 77 . SARDIS . Sardis , the remains of ...
... and lettered at one shilling . -eeee The MALTA PENNY MAGAZINE is published and sent to Subscribers , in Valetta , every Saturday . Subscriptions at 18. per quarter received at No.97 Str . Forni . No. 77 . SARDIS . Sardis , the remains of ...
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... SARDIS . Sardis , the remains of whose famous Temple , and Acropolis , are here exhibited , was the capital city of Lydia in Asia Minor . It was more particularly celebrated for its wealthy king Croesus , who reigned there when Cyrus ...
... SARDIS . Sardis , the remains of whose famous Temple , and Acropolis , are here exhibited , was the capital city of Lydia in Asia Minor . It was more particularly celebrated for its wealthy king Croesus , who reigned there when Cyrus ...
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L. B. Acropolis and Temple of Cybele Sardis , Asia Minor Saturday , 6th . March 1841 . me m Saturday.
L. B. Acropolis and Temple of Cybele Sardis , Asia Minor Saturday , 6th . March 1841 . me m Saturday.
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... Sardis , to re- present that ancient church The ruins of two churches remain to testify her former privileges , and thus to bear witness at once to the goodness and the anger of Almighty God . eeee AIR , EARTH , AND WATER . [ Extracted ...
... Sardis , to re- present that ancient church The ruins of two churches remain to testify her former privileges , and thus to bear witness at once to the goodness and the anger of Almighty God . eeee AIR , EARTH , AND WATER . [ Extracted ...
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... SARDIS ( Continued from No. 77. ) Sardis was magnificently situated on one of the roofs of Mount Tmolus , which com- mands an extensive view to the northward over the valley of the Hermus , and the country beyond it . To the south of ...
... SARDIS ( Continued from No. 77. ) Sardis was magnificently situated on one of the roofs of Mount Tmolus , which com- mands an extensive view to the northward over the valley of the Hermus , and the country beyond it . To the south of ...
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Popular passages
Page 79 - And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.
Page 212 - Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) 2.
Page 164 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low : And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 168 - The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom : a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
Page 260 - Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Page 48 - Like to the falling of a star; Or as the flights of eagles are; Or like the fresh spring's gaudy hue; Or silver drops of morning dew; Or like a wind that chafes the flood; Or bubbles which on water stood; Even such is man, whose borrowed light Is straight called in, and paid to night. The wind blows out; the bubble dies; The spring entombed in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past; and man forgot.
Page 39 - The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Page 240 - Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, — Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore.
Page 87 - And when it was day, they knew not the land : but they discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
Page 130 - ROCK of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee ! Let the water and the blood, From Thy riven side which flowed, Be of sin the double cure, Cleanse me from its guilt and power.