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... hand , explained their poverty by their idleness ; and suggested for them the field of useful enterprize , to which I have above referred . They all acknowledged the evil , but the idea of meeting it had not arisen in one of their minds ...
... hand , explained their poverty by their idleness ; and suggested for them the field of useful enterprize , to which I have above referred . They all acknowledged the evil , but the idea of meeting it had not arisen in one of their minds ...
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... hands of every tyro limner , and exemplified my words ; finding words unavailing , and the pen devoid of form and colour , I took to sketching ; now seeking to catch , so to say , an architectural detail of the stones , there the ...
... hands of every tyro limner , and exemplified my words ; finding words unavailing , and the pen devoid of form and colour , I took to sketching ; now seeking to catch , so to say , an architectural detail of the stones , there the ...
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... hand ; or the spinning wheel was buzzing , or the silk reel sweeping round . Each was pleased to stop and exhibit his work . I passed the public oven ; the vase - like hole with fire at the bottom , round the sides of which the marcooks ...
... hand ; or the spinning wheel was buzzing , or the silk reel sweeping round . Each was pleased to stop and exhibit his work . I passed the public oven ; the vase - like hole with fire at the bottom , round the sides of which the marcooks ...
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... hand , combined with the extreme tenacity the dough has acquired by the previous kneading . The lump is first flattened on a stone by the hand , then taken up and danced be- tween the hands , thrown over each alternately ; the edge ...
... hand , combined with the extreme tenacity the dough has acquired by the previous kneading . The lump is first flattened on a stone by the hand , then taken up and danced be- tween the hands , thrown over each alternately ; the edge ...
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... hands of masons ; it was being rebuilt . At the end of each corridor there was a Saracenic window , with a divan for carpets ; the building was substantial and ex- cellent . On inquiring whence the wealth came , told that their ...
... hands of masons ; it was being rebuilt . At the end of each corridor there was a Saracenic window , with a divan for carpets ; the building was substantial and ex- cellent . On inquiring whence the wealth came , told that their ...
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Página 333 - And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying, I am a stranger and a sojourner with you : give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
Página 42 - ... having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister. Such an act she must consider as failing in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her constitutional right of dismissing that Minister. She expects to be kept informed of what passes between him and the foreign Ministers before important decisions are taken, based upon that intercourse ; to receive the foreign despatches in good time ; and to have the...
Página 110 - And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name of the LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name.
Página 103 - I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches : so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
Página 327 - And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emims in Shaveh Kiriathaim, 6.
Página 42 - Royal sanction. 2. Having once given her sanction to a measure, that it be not arbitrarily altered or modified by the Minister. Such an act she must consider as failure in sincerity towards the Crown, and justly to be visited by the exercise of her Constitutional right of dismissing that Minister.
Página 111 - And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
Página 94 - Thou art the anointed Cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
Página 104 - To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.
Página 104 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature ; and his top was among the thick boughs.