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... means unpleasant ; but the glacie which remains semi - transparent has a curious appearance . On Lundy they are used in the preparations of cookery , but are eaten alone only by the poor . That rarest of British birds , the Great Auk ...
... means unpleasant ; but the glacie which remains semi - transparent has a curious appearance . On Lundy they are used in the preparations of cookery , but are eaten alone only by the poor . That rarest of British birds , the Great Auk ...
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... means of access into the chasm , and is , from the precipitous character of the coast , available only with a boat , and in calm weather , for when there is any swell the sea dashes furiously into the tunnel . One part of the margin of ...
... means of access into the chasm , and is , from the precipitous character of the coast , available only with a boat , and in calm weather , for when there is any swell the sea dashes furiously into the tunnel . One part of the margin of ...
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... means of the round and soft , yet suffi- ciently firm , hillocks of thrift , jumping from one to another . When these ceased , we had to scramble down by the fissures of the rock , until we came to a cyclopean wilderness of huge blocks ...
... means of the round and soft , yet suffi- ciently firm , hillocks of thrift , jumping from one to another . When these ceased , we had to scramble down by the fissures of the rock , until we came to a cyclopean wilderness of huge blocks ...
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... means of the honey - bird , a little dusky creature that hangs about the traveller's path with a view to coax him to the nest in the hollow of a tree , or nook in a rock - the cunning thing choosing that man should storm the magazine of ...
... means of the honey - bird , a little dusky creature that hangs about the traveller's path with a view to coax him to the nest in the hollow of a tree , or nook in a rock - the cunning thing choosing that man should storm the magazine of ...
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... means made by several societies to which he subscribed , and by special cases of distress which came under his notice . His father gradually left the business more and more in his hands , until at length he became the mainstay of the ...
... means made by several societies to which he subscribed , and by special cases of distress which came under his notice . His father gradually left the business more and more in his hands , until at length he became the mainstay of the ...
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Seite 351 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times ; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow, observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
Seite 165 - From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came forth on her wedding night; There, in that silent room below, The dead lay in his shroud of snow, And in the hush that followed the prayer, Was heard the old clock on the stair, — • "For ever — never! Never — for ever ! " All are scattered now and fled, Some are married, some are dead; And when I ask with throbs of pain, "Ah! when shall they all meet again ?" As in the days long since gone by, The ancient timepiece makes reply, — • "...
Seite 165 - He had walk for an hundred sheep, and my mother milked thirty kine. He was able and did find the king a harness, with himself and his horse, while he came to the place that he should receive the king's wages. I can remember that I buckled his harness when he went to Blackheath field. He kept me to school, or else I had not been able to have preached before the King's Majesty now.
Seite 142 - O Lord, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
Seite 164 - Half-way up the stairs it stands, And points and beckons with its hands '• From its case of massive oak, Like a monk, who, under his cloak, Crosses himself, and sighs, alas! With sorrowful voice to all who pass, — "Forever — never ! Never — forever...
Seite 67 - But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa ; and he found a ship going to Tarshish : so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
Seite 249 - Tis as the general pulse Of Life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end.
Seite 365 - Watch ye therefore : for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning : lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.
Seite 59 - Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted man His annual visit. Half afraid, he first Against the window beats; then brisk alights On the warm hearth; then hopping o'er the floor, Eyes all the smiling family askance, And pecks, and starts, and wonders where he is Till, more familiar grown, the table-crumbs Attract his slender feet.
Seite 336 - Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.