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Page 85
... Holy Scriptures , where it is spo- ken of as the birth - place of Eliezer Abraham's steward . No further mention is made of Damascus until the reign of David , about the year A. M. 2964 , when he subdued the Syrians and took the city ...
... Holy Scriptures , where it is spo- ken of as the birth - place of Eliezer Abraham's steward . No further mention is made of Damascus until the reign of David , about the year A. M. 2964 , when he subdued the Syrians and took the city ...
Page 93
... holy titles . Every vessel is furnished with an image of this goddess , before which a lamp is kept burning . Some satellites , in hideous shape , stand round the portly queen , who is always represented in a sitting pos- ture . Cups of ...
... holy titles . Every vessel is furnished with an image of this goddess , before which a lamp is kept burning . Some satellites , in hideous shape , stand round the portly queen , who is always represented in a sitting pos- ture . Cups of ...
Page 120
... Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem . The monks maintain that their convent occupies the ancient site of Simon the tanner's house , with whom St. Peter resided " for many days ; " ( Acts ix . 43 and x . 5 ) but this honour is dis- puted by ...
... Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem . The monks maintain that their convent occupies the ancient site of Simon the tanner's house , with whom St. Peter resided " for many days ; " ( Acts ix . 43 and x . 5 ) but this honour is dis- puted by ...
Page 121
... holy contests . In 1776 it again suffered all the horrors of war , having its population bar- barously cut to pieces , and a pyramid form- ed of their bleeding heads , as a monument of a monster's victory . We refer now to the massacre ...
... holy contests . In 1776 it again suffered all the horrors of war , having its population bar- barously cut to pieces , and a pyramid form- ed of their bleeding heads , as a monument of a monster's victory . We refer now to the massacre ...
Page 122
... Holy City , for the distance of fifteen miles , lies over the beautiful plains of Sharon , after which the traveller commences a rugged and toilsome part of his journey through the hill - coun- try of Judea . This succession of hill and ...
... Holy City , for the distance of fifteen miles , lies over the beautiful plains of Sharon , after which the traveller commences a rugged and toilsome part of his journey through the hill - coun- try of Judea . This succession of hill and ...
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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.