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... nature and properties of the water at the fpring - head , we might eafily , by following the current down again , perceive when and how it became adul- terated and corrupted with adventitious mixtures . The Mythology of the Greeks and ...
... nature and properties of the water at the fpring - head , we might eafily , by following the current down again , perceive when and how it became adul- terated and corrupted with adventitious mixtures . The Mythology of the Greeks and ...
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... nature , and the bright rulers that carry on thefe in the material world are reprefentatives of the more glorious ones that carry on thofe in the spiritual . The heavens , by the light enshrined in their tabernacle the fun , placed in ...
... nature , and the bright rulers that carry on thefe in the material world are reprefentatives of the more glorious ones that carry on thofe in the spiritual . The heavens , by the light enshrined in their tabernacle the fun , placed in ...
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... nature defigned by him who gave it them ; they regarded it as a ladder , whereby they might afcend to a knowledge of the almighty Lord of nature , and his fpiritual operations in the œconomy of redemption . But the nations , after their ...
... nature defigned by him who gave it them ; they regarded it as a ladder , whereby they might afcend to a knowledge of the almighty Lord of nature , and his fpiritual operations in the œconomy of redemption . But the nations , after their ...
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... nature . How capable foever our poet might be of the highest attainments in verfe , he feems to have had a particular fancy for fhort copies . And when his envious rivals ufed to alledge this as their main objection against his Mufe ...
... nature . How capable foever our poet might be of the highest attainments in verfe , he feems to have had a particular fancy for fhort copies . And when his envious rivals ufed to alledge this as their main objection against his Mufe ...
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... natural import , but that through a spirit of envy and emulation , he has wilfully contracted his rival's praises . It is plain , he had no higher ambition than to be thought to be fuperior to Callimachus ; and he declares he fhould ...
... natural import , but that through a spirit of envy and emulation , he has wilfully contracted his rival's praises . It is plain , he had no higher ambition than to be thought to be fuperior to Callimachus ; and he declares he fhould ...
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Page 18 - Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, Upon them that hope in his mercy ; To deliver their soul from death, And to keep them alive in famine.
Page 75 - Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him : knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more ; death hath no more dominion over him. For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
Page 183 - Tho' mark'd by none but quick poetic eyes; (So Rome's great founder to the heav'ns withdrew, To Proculus alone confess'd in view) A sudden star, it shot thro' liquid air, And drew behind a radiant trail of hair.
Page 35 - I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying: Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
Page 70 - That our garners may be full and plenteous with all manner of store ; that our sheep may bring forth thousands, and ten thousands in our streets ; 14 That our oxen may be strong to labour ; that there be no decay, no leading into captivity, and no complaining in our streets.
Page 7 - And Moses took the rod from before the LORD, as he commanded him. And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you water out of this rock?
Page 150 - Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD had said unto him : and so it was, because he feared his father's household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.
Page 121 - And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father ; and their faces were backward, and they saw not...
Page 20 - from me vanity and lies ; give me neither poverty nor " riches, feed me with food convenient for me : left I be " full, and deny thee, and fay, Who is the Lord ? or left " I be poor, and fteal, and take the name of my God in " vain," On the fame thing is founded the advice of Solomon, with regard to the fin of fenfuality : Proverbs xxiii.
Page 14 - And I looked, and there was none to help; And I wondered that there was none to uphold : Therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; And my fury, it upheld me.