General questions on history ... Church chronology, constitution of Great Britain, geography, the arts, &c. [by A.M. Stewart].

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Page 359 - Ireland shall, upon the first day of January which shall be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one, and for ever after, be united into one kingdom, by the name of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland...
Page 136 - Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona ; for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Page 390 - ... nearly three fourths of the surface of the earth. All the gulfs, all the inland seas, form only portions detached, but not entirely separated, from that universal sea, which we call the ocean. It is only for the sake of greater convenience that we distinguish different parts of the ocean under the name of seas.
Page 23 - Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.
Page 52 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.
Page 388 - The still smaller portions of sea, surrounded as it were by land, and which afford a shelter for ships, are called ports, creeks, or roads. The first term means a secure asylum ; the second is applied to places or ports of much smaller size, and which, when improved or completed by artificial aid, are styled harbours, and the roads afford only a temporary anchorage and security from certain winds. If, on the other hand, parts of the continents shoot into the seas, and are connected with the main...
Page 180 - ... once, on a charge of having corrupted the coin ; and 15,000 were robbed of their effects, and banished from the kingdom. He soon after undertook to subdue Wales, and having defeated and slain the sovereign prince Llewellyn, he annexed the country to the crown of England. He created his oldest son Prince of Wales, a title which has ever since been borne by the oldest sons of the English monarchs. 26. The conquest of Wales inflamed the ambition of Edward, and inspired him with the design of extending...
Page 39 - Lord, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil : thus saith the Lord ; Behold, I will give Pharaoh-hophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life...
Page 38 - Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt : speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.

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