A Dictionary of Important Names, Objects, and Terms, Found in the Holy Scriptures: Intended Principally for Youth

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Lincoln & Edmands, 1831 - Всего страниц: 276
 

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Стр. 158 - Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks? Or wings and feathers unto the ostrich? Which leaveth her eggs in the earth, And warmeth them in the dust, And forgetteth that the foot may crush them, Or that the wild beast may break them. She is hardened against her young ones, As though they were not hers...
Стр. 141 - Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come ; and send for cunning women, that they may come : and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
Стр. 4 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...
Стр. 265 - Where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?
Стр. 87 - And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old ; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new, agreeth not with the old.
Стр. 206 - God," 2 Tim. iii. 16, and the apostle Peter, in reference to the same, testifies, " No prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation. For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man ; but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost,
Стр. 191 - As an earring of gold, and an ornament of fine gold, so is a wise reprover upon an obedient ear.
Стр. 214 - Uiai, in Persia. It is said to have been built by Memnon, before the Trojan war. It was the winter residence of the Persian kings from the time of Cyrus, being sheltered by a high ridge of mountains from the north-east wind ; but in the summer it was so intensely hot as to be scarcely habitable. Here Daniel had his vision of the ram and hegoat.
Стр. 66 - The arts and sciences were very early cultivated here, and maintained a greater degree of perfection, for some ages, than was found in any other nation. Pythagoras, Plato, Ac., travelled here to complete their studies. But the people worshipped beasts, fowls, onions, beans, and monsters of their own imagination. " The world by wisdom knew not God.
Стр. 124 - Yulpina/ia, or feast of the foxes, celebrated by the Romans in the month of April, (the time of the Jewish harvest, in which they let loose foxes with torches fastened to their...

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