The Automatical Camera-obscura: Exhibiting Scenes from Nature,delineated by an Unerring Pencil and Preserved in an Ancient Port-folio: Also Events which Have Engaged the Attention, Excited the Admiration and Afforded Instruction to the Wise and Good in Every Age. Vol.I.

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F.Westley, 1821
 

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Pagina 194 - Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath : for it is written, Vengeance is mine ; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him ; if he thirst, give him drink : for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
Pagina 83 - And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
Pagina 55 - And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven ; and they were destroyed from the earth : and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
Pagina 56 - And Noah went forth, and his sons and his wife and his sons
Pagina 79 - And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
Pagina 123 - The ancients, we are to know, in keeping their reckonings, or accounts, of time, or their list of domestic officers, or servants, made use of tables with holes bored in them, in which they put a sort of pegs, or nails, with broad heads, exhibiting the particulars, either number, or name, or whatever it was. These nails, or pegs, the Jews call heads, and the sockets of the heads they call bases. The meaning therefore of Pharaoh's lifting up his head...
Pagina 72 - ... with plaster : over all these were thick sheets of lead; and on these, the earth or mould of the garden, so deep, as to give sufficient root to the largest trees, with a variety of other vegetables pleasing to the eye. Upon the uppermost terrace was a reservoir, supplied by a certain engine with water from the rirer, and from whence the gardens, on the other terraces were supplied with moisture.
Pagina 17 - ... divide a shilling into a great many parts. Other subjects occasionally engage our attention, but to get money seems to be too often made the business of our lives. The rich man is so accustomed to possess money, that he looks upon it as his own, forgetting that it is only lent him for a season by Him who has said, " The silver is mine, and the gold is mine," and who alone can render it a blessing.
Pagina 124 - J into his accounts ; for it seems very probable, that both he and the baker had been either suspected or accused of having cheated the King, and that, when their accounts were examined and cast up, the one was acquitted, while the other was found guilty. And, though Joseph uses the same expression in both cases, yet we may observe that, speaking to the baker, he adds, that Pharaoh...
Pagina 91 - That there came an old woman, and brought an offering of fine flosr to the idols ; upon which they immediately fell together by the ears for the prize, when the large one killed them all with the stick which he held in his hand.

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