Australia: With Notes by the Way, on Egypt, Ceylon, Bombay, and the Holy LandHamilton, Adams, and Company, 1862 - 270 pàgines |
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Australia: With Notes by the Way, on Egypt, Ceylon, Bombay, and the Holy Land Frederick James Jobson Visualització completa - 1862 |
Australia: With Notes by the Way, on Egypt, Ceylon, Bombay, and the Holy Land Frederick James Jobson Visualització completa - 1862 |
Australia: With Notes by the Way, on Egypt, Ceylon, Bombay, and the Holy Land Frederick James Jobson Visualització completa - 1862 |
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Pàgina 257 - And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. He is not here: for He is risen, as He said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
Pàgina 248 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Pàgina 112 - GOD of my life, through all my days My grateful powers shall sound thy praise ; My song shall wake with opening light, And cheer the dark and silent night. 2 When anxious cares would break my rest, And griefs would tear my throbbing breast, Thy tuneful praises, raised on high, Shall check the murmur and the sigh. 3 When death o'er nature shall prevail, And all the powers of language fail, Joy through my...
Pàgina 246 - And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
Pàgina 245 - The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him...
Pàgina 107 - ... in its streets. Now it is a large city, extending two and a half miles in length, one and a half in breadth. On all the land sides, — amidst parklike scenery, — it is surrounded with thickly-populated and richly-ornamental suburbs. It has at present 120,000 inhabitants, and its numbers are constantly increasing. The streets are wide, well paved, and well laid out ; and you see in them stores, shops, and houses of good architectural styles : some resemble what are seen at the west-end of London...
Pàgina 271 - And stooping down, and looking in, he seeth the linen clothes lying ; yet entered he not in. Then cometh also Simon Peter following him, and went into the sepulchre, and seeth the linen clothes lying, and the napkin, that was about his head not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
Pàgina 107 - Melbourne, for the period of its existence, is undoubtedly the most wonderful city in the world. It is the growth of a single generation ; indeed, mostly of the last ten or twelve years. Earlier, it was only a long, straggling village, or embryo town, with stumps of felled forest trees in its streets ; now it is a large city, extending two and a half miles in length, one and a half in breadth. On all the land sides, amidst park-like scenery, it is surrounded with thickly-populated and richlyornamented...
Pàgina 113 - ... was reckoned that I knew one-third of the whole, either in their own faces, or in their familylikenesses. The effect of a voice familiar to so many of them, and calling up at a moment, as by a single link, a host of home associations, was indescribably exciting. In all directions eyes gushed full with tears ; faces flushed and quivered with emotion ; and a sigh of deep feeling heaved and swayed the mighty mass, until it waved before and around the preacher like the swelling billows of a sea.
Pàgina 207 - Numberless instances are quoted of education and employment of the aborigines by European colonists; but, almost in every case, the native child or servant, taught and clothed, has gone back to the wild tribe to which he or she belonged, and sunk back into barbarism.