The National Magazine, Band 1

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Abel Stevens, James Floy
Carlton & Phillips, 1852
 

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Seite 112 - a hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses !" And more complete and terrible still was the vengeance stored up against the city of this proud and tyrannizing people, the results exactly verifying the predictions of the prophet,
Seite 112 - commentation on the prophecies ; in them we read, in unmistakable characters, an evidence of that rapacity and cruelty, of which the Assyrian nation is accused. " For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. Wo to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity
Seite 111 - in reply to the prayer of Hezekiah — " Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way
Seite 100 - pitying glances To hear what he might say. The dying soldier falter'd As he took that comrade's hand, And he said, " I never more shall see My own, my native land ; Take a message and a token To some distant friends of mine ; For I was born at Bingen, Fair
Seite 314 - that he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
Seite 483 - The Lord bless you and keep you ! The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious unto you 1 The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you
Seite 112 - With an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies. The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved. Nineveh is of old like a pool of water.
Seite 551 - pimpernel. Hark ! how the chairs and tables crack ! Old Betty's joints are on the rack ; Her corns with shooting pains torment her, And to her bed untimely send her. Loud quack the ducks, the sea-fowls cry, The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine ! The busy flies disturb the
Seite 51 - one, bat all mankind's epitome ; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by turns, but nothing long." Bob Multiform was not destined to reverse the usual fate of his class. His father saw his business,
Seite 169 - is evident in the operations of the gospel. " God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise. And God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things that are mighty ; and base things of the world, and things that are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things that are not, to bring to

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