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Page 1205 - Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem: To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie Lark, companion meet! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet! Wi' spreckl'd breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet The purpling east.
Page 800 - GOD, who as at this time didst teach the hearts of thy faithful people by the sending to them the light of thy Holy Spirit ; Grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things...
Page 914 - Hence it comes to pass that, amidst the mutual struggles of the two laws within him, — " the law in his members warring against the law of his mind...
Page 1029 - THEREFORE with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious Name, evermore praising thee, and saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Glory be to thee, O Lord most high.
Page 786 - Pandora, under the influence of female curiosity, disregarding the injunction, raised the lid, and all the evils hitherto unknown to man poured out, and spread themselves over the earth. In terror at the sight of these monsters, she shut down the lid just in time to prevent the escape of Hope, which thus remained to man, his chief support and comfort . . . The idea has been universal among the moderns, that she {.Pandora.!
Page 1290 - Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth ; a stranger, and not thine own lips. 3 A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty ; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
Page 1277 - The North Temperate zone lies between the tropic of Cancer and the Arctic circle, and the South Temperate, between the tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic circle.
Page 875 - POSTULATES. Let it be granted, 1. That a straight line may be drawn from any one point to any other point : 2. That a terminated straight line may be produced to any length in a straight line : 3.
Page 875 - And that a circle may be described from any centre, at any distance from that centre.
Page 1260 - Tack. To put a ship about, so that from having the wind on one side, you bring it round on the other, by the way of her head. The opposite of wearing. A vessel is on the starboard tack, or has her starboard tack on board, when she has the wind on her starboard side.