Treasury of Knowledge: In Three Parts

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A.S. Barnes, 1849 - 413 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 64 - Shines, a pure gem of heaven, afar ! Child of the earth ! oh, lift thy glance To yon bright firmament's expanse; The glories of its realm explore, And gaze, and wonder, and adore ! Doth it not speak to every sense The marvels of Omnipotence ? Seest thou not there the Almighty name Inscribed in characters of flame?
Σελίδα 81 - He that is down needs fear no fall; He that is low no pride; He that is humble ever shall Have God to be his guide.
Σελίδα 9 - IN whatever place we first become aware that we are living beings, the scene which we survey is limited to a very small part of the whole system of Nature — that is, of what exists. If we look beyond the house in which we live, we probably see other houses, fields, hills, plains, or a part of the sea. If we look upward, a more extensive view is presented; we there behold the clear blue sky, where the sun shines by day, and the moon and stars by night. But even these large plains, and that wide...
Σελίδα 80 - business ", however, is also used in another and a very different sense, as meaning an active occupation or profession continuously carried on, and it is in this sense that the word is used in the Act with which we are here concerned.
Σελίδα 64 - Child of the earth! oh ! lift thy glance To yon bright firmament's expanse ; The glories of its realm explore, And gaze, and wonder, and adore ! Doth it not speak to every sense, The marvels of Omnipotence ? Seest thou not there the...
Σελίδα 67 - Thirty days have September, April, June, and November. All the rest have thirty-one, Save February, which alone Has twenty-eight ; and one day more We add to it one year in four.
Σελίδα 62 - ... seventy-one 72 seventy-two 73 seventy-three 74 seventy-four 75 seventy-five 76 seventy-six 77 seventy-seven 78 seventy-eight 79 seventy-nine 80 eighty 81 eighty-one 82 eighty-two 83 eighty-three 84 eighty-four 85 eighty-five 86 eighty-six 87 eighty-seven 88 eighty-eight 89 eighty-nine 90 ninety 91 ninety-one 92 ninety-two 93 ninety-three 94 ninety-four 95 ninety-five 96 ninety-six 97 ninety-seven 98 ninety-eight 99 ninety-nine 100 one...
Σελίδα 84 - I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.
Σελίδα 5 - The amount of information on each is necessarily not great ; but it has been the ambition of the writer that the information given should not be a superficial view of a few unconnected phenomena, but a chain of principles, calculated, in combination, to impress a distinct and comprehensive idea, and to make it possible that even those who leave school at the early age of ten, shall not go into the world without some knowledge of the parts of which it is composed, and the laws by which it is regulated....
Σελίδα 63 - And the flax and the barley was smitten : for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was boiled. But the wheat and the rye were not smitten ; for they were not grown up.

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