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... roads - Agricultural improvements , & c . M CHAPTER IV . Oberlin's address to his parishioners on the com- mencement of a new year- Erection of a new school - house in the Ban de la Roche - Progress of 338 36 17 1 1 erected- Page ...
... roads - Agricultural improvements , & c . M CHAPTER IV . Oberlin's address to his parishioners on the com- mencement of a new year- Erection of a new school - house in the Ban de la Roche - Progress of 338 36 17 1 1 erected- Page ...
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... road from Strasbourg thither lies through the towns of Molsheim , Mutzig , and Schirmeck . Behind the little town of Schir- meck the extensive and fertile valley in which * Steinthal is the German name for the Ban de la Roche . Its ...
... road from Strasbourg thither lies through the towns of Molsheim , Mutzig , and Schirmeck . Behind the little town of Schir- meck the extensive and fertile valley in which * Steinthal is the German name for the Ban de la Roche . Its ...
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... road winding down the side of a steep precipice towards the southern side of the valley , where , after crossing the stream , which flows through its bottom in the character of a mountain torrent , it rises again , and the cot- tages of ...
... road winding down the side of a steep precipice towards the southern side of the valley , where , after crossing the stream , which flows through its bottom in the character of a mountain torrent , it rises again , and the cot- tages of ...
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... road from one place to another , and but little land under cultivation . About eighty or a hundred families earned indeed a scanty subsistence on its precarious soil , but , being destitute of all the comforts of civilized life , they ...
... road from one place to another , and but little land under cultivation . About eighty or a hundred families earned indeed a scanty subsistence on its precarious soil , but , being destitute of all the comforts of civilized life , they ...
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... roads , which , owing to the de- vastation of war and decays of population , had been so totally lost , that the only mode of com- munication , from the bulk of the parish to the neighbouring towns , was across the river Bruche , a ...
... roads , which , owing to the de- vastation of war and decays of population , had been so totally lost , that the only mode of com- munication , from the bulk of the parish to the neighbouring towns , was across the river Bruche , a ...
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Page 129 - Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Page 263 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is : For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green ; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 210 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord : whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Page 238 - And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: am I my brother's keeper?
Page 130 - At the end of every seven years, in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles, when all Israel is come to appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing.
Page 211 - The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: but they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.
Page 203 - Happy art thou, O Israel : who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency ! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee ; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
Page 284 - Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.
Page 129 - And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord's: it is holy unto the Lord.
Page 277 - BLESS the LORD, O my soul : And all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the LORD, 0 my soul, And forget not all his benefits : Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; Who healeth all thy diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction ; Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies ; Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things ; So that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.