The British Friend of India Magazine, and Indian ReviewSmith, Elder, and Company, 1844 |
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Seite 256 - And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel ? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
Seite 201 - And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me.
Seite 200 - BUT now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Seite 260 - Rience had purfled a mantle with kings' beards, and there lacked one place of the mantle; wherefore he sent for his beard, or else he would enter into his lands, and burn and slay, and never leave till he have the head and the beard.
Seite 325 - Son the heathen for his inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession...
Seite 282 - ... marking the track of his solitary flight. The influence of the cold extends even to inanimate nature; the thickest trunks of trees are rent asunder with a loud sound, which, in these deserts falls on the ear like a signal-shot at sea; large masses of rock are torn from their ancient sites; the ground in the tundras, and in the rocky valleys, cracks, and forms wide yawning fissures, from which the waters, which were beneath the surface, rise, giving off a cloud of vapour, and become immediately...
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Seite 282 - ... to wade through the snow. The poor horses suffer at least as much as their riders, for, besides the general effect of the cold, they are tormented by ice forming in their nostrils, and stopping their breathing; when they intimate this, by a distressed snort and a convulsive...
Seite 200 - Upon my right hand rise the youth ; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Seite 51 - ... noise within, every now and then accompanied with a crash of accumulated fluid in the wire, striving to get free between the balls, produce the most awful effect, which is not a little increased by the pauses occasioned by the interchange of zones. Great caution must, of course, be observed during this interval, or the consequences would be fatal. My battery consists of fifty jars, containing seventy-three feet of surface, on one side only.