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... murderer in his reply to his divine judge , after his sentence , expresses his fears that " every one that findeth him should slay him , " chap . iv . 14 . which clearly proves , that the world was become considerably populous before ...
... murderer in his reply to his divine judge , after his sentence , expresses his fears that " every one that findeth him should slay him , " chap . iv . 14 . which clearly proves , that the world was become considerably populous before ...
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... murdered by the Athenians for his success at the Attic games . LITERATURE . CADMUS , king of Thebes , the son of Agenor , king of Phoenicia , and the brother of Phoenix , Cilix , and Europa . Cadmus was the first who introduced the use ...
... murdered by the Athenians for his success at the Attic games . LITERATURE . CADMUS , king of Thebes , the son of Agenor , king of Phoenicia , and the brother of Phoenix , Cilix , and Europa . Cadmus was the first who introduced the use ...
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... murdered him . We shall now , as usual , step aside into prophane history , and although in these remote periods we are still involved in fable , yet we shall find much that is interesting with respect to the progress of men and things ...
... murdered him . We shall now , as usual , step aside into prophane history , and although in these remote periods we are still involved in fable , yet we shall find much that is interesting with respect to the progress of men and things ...
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... murdered children were shown him . This action appeared so horrid that the sun is said to have with- drawn his light . Thyestes fled directly to the court of Thes- protus , and thence to Sicyon , where he violated his own daugh- ter ...
... murdered children were shown him . This action appeared so horrid that the sun is said to have with- drawn his light . Thyestes fled directly to the court of Thes- protus , and thence to Sicyon , where he violated his own daugh- ter ...
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... murdered his two children , who had accompanied him . Euripides says , that the Greeks con demned Polymnestor to be banished into a distant island for hi perfidy ; but Hyginus relates the story differently , and tells us that when ...
... murdered his two children , who had accompanied him . Euripides says , that the Greeks con demned Polymnestor to be banished into a distant island for hi perfidy ; but Hyginus relates the story differently , and tells us that when ...
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Page 29 - Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen ; for we be brethren. Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right ; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 73 - It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother-in-law since the death of thine husband ; and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore. The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Page 37 - They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
Page 575 - The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar'd all description: she did lie In her pavilion — cloth of gold, of tissue— O'er-picturing that Venus where we see The fancy outwork nature. On each side her, Stood pretty dimpled boys, like smiling Cupids, With divers-colour'd fans, whose wind did seem To glow the delicate cheeks which...
Page 12 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 101 - This day will the Lord deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth ; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hands.
Page 101 - Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Page 574 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Page 54 - And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
Page 37 - Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships ; and his border shall be unto Zidon.