The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Том 1Francis S. Wiggins, 1831 |
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... four square , and sixty cubits high - all of hardest marble , and so cement- ed , as almost to defy the ravages of time . On the four sides were brazen gates , with curtains or pallisades of * It is supposed that Alexander took one ...
... four square , and sixty cubits high - all of hardest marble , and so cement- ed , as almost to defy the ravages of time . On the four sides were brazen gates , with curtains or pallisades of * It is supposed that Alexander took one ...
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... four hundred and ten paces long , and from twenty - one to thirty cubits high . This superb edifice has the walls of three of its sides still standing . The front extends six hundred paces from north to south , while the side reaching ...
... four hundred and ten paces long , and from twenty - one to thirty cubits high . This superb edifice has the walls of three of its sides still standing . The front extends six hundred paces from north to south , while the side reaching ...
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... Four of these stages ( if we may so term them ) still remain , and the ascent is extremely easy on account of the immense quantities of rubbish which has accumulated from the fall of the upper por- tions . In Alexander's time , this ...
... Four of these stages ( if we may so term them ) still remain , and the ascent is extremely easy on account of the immense quantities of rubbish which has accumulated from the fall of the upper por- tions . In Alexander's time , this ...
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... four years . In this period the contending sects of the Pharisees and Sadducees rose up ; the Pharisees , in general , took the lead in number , and also on ac- count of their supposed piety and austerity of manners , which recommended ...
... four years . In this period the contending sects of the Pharisees and Sadducees rose up ; the Pharisees , in general , took the lead in number , and also on ac- count of their supposed piety and austerity of manners , which recommended ...
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... four times on his feet , and as often on his knees , he makes her a profound obeisance , bowing his head even to the ground . The same cus- tom is also observed through the greatest part of the empire ; and if it appears that any one is ...
... four times on his feet , and as often on his knees , he makes her a profound obeisance , bowing his head even to the ground . The same cus- tom is also observed through the greatest part of the empire ; and if it appears that any one is ...
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Стр. 132 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Стр. 8 - Day unto day uttereth speech: And night unto night showeth knowledge. There is no speech nor language: Where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth: And their words to the end of the world.
Стр. 72 - Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Стр. 236 - Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: The waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled ; At the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
Стр. 237 - GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that 'every 'imagination of the thoughts of his heart wan only evil 2 continually.
Стр. 168 - Who knoweth not in all these That the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, And the breath of all mankind.
Стр. 271 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world, with kings, The powerful of the earth, the wise, the good, Fair forms and hoary seers of ages past — All in one mighty sepulchre.
Стр. 271 - Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun; the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods; rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks, That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man!
Стр. 111 - Hitherto shalt thou come, and no further; and here shall thy proud waves be stayed.
Стр. 367 - With all the visionary fervor of his imagination, its fondest dreams fell short of the reality. He died in ignorance of the real grandeur of his discovery! Until his last breath, he entertained the idea that he had merely opened a new way to the old resorts of opulent commerce, and had discovered some of the wild regions of the East. He supposed Hispaniola to be the ancient Ophir, which had been visited by the ships of King Solomon, and that Cuba and Terra Firma were but remote parts of Asia.