The Saturday Magazine, Volume 8J. W. Parker, 1836 |
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... visited by a Minister of Christ ; and diffuses the Word of Life and the practical knowledge of Divine truth by gratuitous supplies of Bibles , Prayer - books , and Tracts * . The work before us , may , in this view , be deemed ...
... visited by a Minister of Christ ; and diffuses the Word of Life and the practical knowledge of Divine truth by gratuitous supplies of Bibles , Prayer - books , and Tracts * . The work before us , may , in this view , be deemed ...
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... visited the country , whatever may be their condition , are bound in gratitude to acknowledge . A love of drinking , which is said to be a prevailing passion with the Irish , may be ascribed to a variety of causes to a natural fondness ...
... visited the country , whatever may be their condition , are bound in gratitude to acknowledge . A love of drinking , which is said to be a prevailing passion with the Irish , may be ascribed to a variety of causes to a natural fondness ...
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... visited with peculiar delight . The eye beholds , to a wide extent , stone after stone glittering upon innumerable graves ; whilst thick - spreading trees extend their branches and their shade above them . Whilst contemplating the scene ...
... visited with peculiar delight . The eye beholds , to a wide extent , stone after stone glittering upon innumerable graves ; whilst thick - spreading trees extend their branches and their shade above them . Whilst contemplating the scene ...
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... visits Luxor must not expect to find much accommodation for his personal wants ; his best chance of securing some degree of comfort lies in carrying his tent with hiin , and pitching it on one of the convenient spots which are to be ...
... visits Luxor must not expect to find much accommodation for his personal wants ; his best chance of securing some degree of comfort lies in carrying his tent with hiin , and pitching it on one of the convenient spots which are to be ...
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... visited Egypt , ( in 1818 , ) there were about one hundred Coptic families in this village , and about five times as ... visited by the women of Luxor , Karnak , and other villages near . " CHRISTIANITY IN MODERN THEBES ABOUT sixteen ...
... visited Egypt , ( in 1818 , ) there were about one hundred Coptic families in this village , and about five times as ... visited by the women of Luxor , Karnak , and other villages near . " CHRISTIANITY IN MODERN THEBES ABOUT sixteen ...
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Page 50 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 223 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 164 - tis, to cast one's eyes so low! The crows and choughs, that wing the midway air, Show scarce so gross as beetles : Half way down Hangs one that gathers samphire; dreadful trade! Methinks, he seems no bigger than his head: The fishermen, that walk upon the beach, Appear like mice; and yon...
Page 206 - Oh, the grave! the grave! It buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment. From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.
Page 142 - Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old : My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe ; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude.
Page 159 - If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
Page 186 - This is that which I think great readers are apt to be mistaken in. Those who have read of everything are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours.
Page 32 - And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
Page 249 - There is a glorious city in the sea; The sea is in the broad, the narrow streets, Ebbing and flowing; and the salt sea-weed Clings to the marble of her palaces. No track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates ! The path lies o'er the sea, Invisible : and from the land we went, As to a floating city — steering in, And gliding up her streets, as in a dream...
Page 246 - God's blessing breathed upon the fainting earth ! Go, rock the little wood-bird in his nest, Curl the still waters, bright with stars, and rouse The wide old wood from his majestic rest, Summoning from the innumerable boughs The strange, deep harmonies that haunt his breast...