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... race into seventy - two nations . From among all their dogmas I have selected one - the Love of God . ' Nor is this comparative spirit restricted to the treatment of language , mythology , and religion . While hitherto we knew the ...
... race into seventy - two nations . From among all their dogmas I have selected one - the Love of God . ' Nor is this comparative spirit restricted to the treatment of language , mythology , and religion . While hitherto we knew the ...
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... race of men is growing up in India , who have stepped , as it were , over a thousand years , and have entered at once on the intellectual inheritance of Europe . They carry off prizes at English schools , take their degrees in English ...
... race of men is growing up in India , who have stepped , as it were , over a thousand years , and have entered at once on the intellectual inheritance of Europe . They carry off prizes at English schools , take their degrees in English ...
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... races . most valuable reports have been sent home during the last five or six years , but when it was suggested that these ... race . At Rome at the time of the Scipios , hundreds of people might have written down a gram- mar CONGRESS OF ...
... races . most valuable reports have been sent home during the last five or six years , but when it was suggested that these ... race . At Rome at the time of the Scipios , hundreds of people might have written down a gram- mar CONGRESS OF ...
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... races of mankind . When religion was held to be the specific character of man , it was asserted by many travellers that they had seen races without any religious ideas ; when language was seen to be the real frontier line between man ...
... races of mankind . When religion was held to be the specific character of man , it was asserted by many travellers that they had seen races without any religious ideas ; when language was seen to be the real frontier line between man ...
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... races of India , take up this important branch of research , and give us , not only photographs and graphic description , but also , what is most wanted , scholarlike grammars of the principal races of India ? Lists of words , if ...
... races of India , take up this important branch of research , and give us , not only photographs and graphic description , but also , what is most wanted , scholarlike grammars of the principal races of India ? Lists of words , if ...
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Page 415 - And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, so that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: and this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
Page 422 - ... and hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation ; that they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him and find him, though he be not far from every one of us : For in him we live, and move and have our being ; as certain also of your own poets [have said, for we are also his offspring.
Page 414 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Page 33 - Waft, waft, ye winds, His story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole ; Till o'er our ransomed nature The Lamb for sinners slain, Redeemer, King, Creator, In bliss returns to reign.
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Page 562 - Works by the Rev. JG WOOD. HOMES WITHOUT HANDS : a Description of the Habitation of Animals, classed according to the Principle of Construction. With 140 Illustrations. 8vo. , js. net. INSECTS AT HOME : a Popular Account of British Insects, their Structure, Habits and Transformations.
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Page 408 - Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended ? who hath gathered the wind in his fists ? who hath bound the waters in a garment ? who hath established all the ends of the earth ? what is his name, and what is his son's name, if thou canst tell ? 5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
Page 562 - STRANGE DWELLINGS : a Description of the Habitations of Animals, abridged from 'Homes without Hands'.