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עמוד 34
... Scotland . The specimens found at Elie are popularly called Elie Rubies . PYRO'PHORUS ( from the Gr . pyr , fire , and phero , I bear ) is a term applied to any substances which take fire from the rapidity with which they are oxidised ...
... Scotland . The specimens found at Elie are popularly called Elie Rubies . PYRO'PHORUS ( from the Gr . pyr , fire , and phero , I bear ) is a term applied to any substances which take fire from the rapidity with which they are oxidised ...
עמוד 45
... Scotland , and more frequently in the south of England , where it is sometimes seen even in winter . There is reason to believe that the food miraculously supplied to the Israelites in the wilderness was this very species of bird , to ...
... Scotland , and more frequently in the south of England , where it is sometimes seen even in winter . There is reason to believe that the food miraculously supplied to the Israelites in the wilderness was this very species of bird , to ...
עמוד 48
... Scotland , there are what are called two legal terms in each year , and two conventional terms , the latter being only adopted when expressly so agreed . The legal terms are Whitsunday , May 15 , and Martinmas , November 11 ; and the ...
... Scotland , there are what are called two legal terms in each year , and two conventional terms , the latter being only adopted when expressly so agreed . The legal terms are Whitsunday , May 15 , and Martinmas , November 11 ; and the ...
עמוד 50
... Scotland , there is also a Court of Quarter Sessions of the peace , held four times a year at the county town - viz . , on the first Tuesdays in May , August , and March , and the last Tuesday in October . At these courts , the justices ...
... Scotland , there is also a Court of Quarter Sessions of the peace , held four times a year at the county town - viz . , on the first Tuesdays in May , August , and March , and the last Tuesday in October . At these courts , the justices ...
עמוד 55
... Scotland , and Ireland , arranged as a cross , and separated by fleurs - de - lis . Those with sunk letters are less frequently met with - some of which have for obverse Peace on a car , others Britannia under a canopy . A few of them ...
... Scotland , and Ireland , arranged as a cross , and separated by fleurs - de - lis . Those with sunk letters are less frequently met with - some of which have for obverse Peace on a car , others Britannia under a canopy . A few of them ...
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עמוד 234 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin, — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
עמוד 131 - The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath ; it is twice blessed ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...
עמוד 221 - Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
עמוד 300 - And I believe in the Holy Ghost, The Lord and Giver of life, Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, Who spake by the Prophets. And I believe one Catholic and Apostolic Church. I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins, And I look for the Resurrection of the dead, And the life of the world to come. Amen.
עמוד 216 - And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews. Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead...
עמוד 285 - Some Passages of the Life and Death of John Earl of Rochester ;" which the critic ought to read for its elegance, the philosopher for its arguments, and the saint for its piety.
עמוד 299 - Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of Very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made; who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit of the Virgin Mary, and was made man, and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate.
עמוד 340 - But clear and artless pouring through the plain Health to the sick, and solace to the swain. Whose causeway parts the vale with shady rows ? Whose seats the weary traveller repose ? Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise ? " The Man of Ross," each lisping babe replies. Behold the market-place with poor o'erspread ! The Man of Ross...
עמוד 131 - Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
עמוד 299 - I believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible...