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Page 97 - lam to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers, in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan. There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and
Page 399 - I am strong and lusty ; For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood ; Nor did not, with unbashful forehead, woo The means of weakness and debility.
Page 365 - heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loopholes cut through thickest shade ; those leaves •They gather'd, broad as Amazonian targe, And with what skill they had, together sew'd, To gird their waist ; vain covering, if to hide Their guilt and dreaded shame!
Page 257 - I can discover no logical halting-place between the admission that such is the case, and the further concession that all vital action may, with equal propriety, be said to be the result of the molecular forces of the protoplasm which displays it. And if so, it must be true, in the same sense
Page 257 - It is true that if philosophers have suffered, their cause has been amply avenged. Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science, as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules ; and history records that whenever science and orthodoxy have been fairly opposed, the latter has been forced to retire from the lists, bleeding and crushed, if not
Page 365 - known In Malabar or Ueccan, spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters About the mother tree, a
Page 148 - Jesus loves me, this I know. For the Bible tells me so; Little ones to Him belong, They are weak, but He is strong.
Page 357 - Clown.—Give me leave. Here lies the water; good: here stands the man ; good : if the man go to this water and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he,
Page 409 - For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
Page 365 - Curse of Kehama." " 'Twas a fair scene wherein they stood, A green and sunny glade amid the wood, And in the midst an aged Banian grew. It was a goodly sight to see That venerable tree, Far o'er the lawn, irregularly spread, Fifty straight columns propt its lofty head ; And many a