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Pàgina 29 - Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
Pàgina 29 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; these see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Pàgina 13 - You don't know what you're talking about!" cried Humpty Dumpty. "How many days are there in a year?" "Three hundred and sixty-five," said Alice. "And how many birthdays have you?" "One." "And if you take one from three hundred and sixtyfive, what remains?
Pàgina 126 - The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
Pàgina 150 - In that awful night, but for the little tube of mercury which had given the warning, neither the strength of the noble ship, nor the skill and energies of the commander, could have saved one man to tell the tale.
Pàgina 105 - And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left. And Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines.
Pàgina 105 - And Sam.son called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
Pàgina 149 - The sun had just mildly set, closing a beautiful afternoon. The evening amusements were going on as usual, when suddenly the captain's orders came, to prepare with all haste for a storm. The mercury in the barometer had begun to fall with awful rapidity. As yet, the oldest sailors could see nothing like a storm in the sky, and were surprised at the greatness and hurry of the preparations. But before...
Pàgina 105 - Now the house was full of men and women ; and all the lords of the Philistines were there ; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.
Pàgina 167 - ... or diminishing strains of wild harmony will be elicited from the instrument by the fluctuating impulse of the wind. 91. A colossal imitation of the instrument just described was invented at Milan in 1786, by the Abbate Gattoni. He stretched seven strong iron wires, tuned to the notes of the gamut, from the top of a tower fifty feet high to the house of a...