The Childhood of the World: A Simple Account of Man in Early TimesMacmillan and Company, 1873 - 118 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 52
... seemed impossible for them ever to fall ) which have reached a certain point , then decayed and died . And since man has lived so many thousands of years on the earth , there must have risen and fallen races and tribes of which no trace ...
... seemed impossible for them ever to fall ) which have reached a certain point , then decayed and died . And since man has lived so many thousands of years on the earth , there must have risen and fallen races and tribes of which no trace ...
الصفحة 53
... have perished . But although the hand on the clock - face of progress has seemed now and then to stand still or even to go back , it is a great truth for our comfort and trust that the world gets better SECT . XV . ] 53 OF THE WORLD .
... have perished . But although the hand on the clock - face of progress has seemed now and then to stand still or even to go back , it is a great truth for our comfort and trust that the world gets better SECT . XV . ] 53 OF THE WORLD .
الصفحة 61
... seemed to be ( and really was , although not as he thought of it ) in all things around , man shaped the most curious notions into the form of myths , by which is meant a fanciful story founded on something real . If to us a boat or a ...
... seemed to be ( and really was , although not as he thought of it ) in all things around , man shaped the most curious notions into the form of myths , by which is meant a fanciful story founded on something real . If to us a boat or a ...
الصفحة 69
... seemed like a solid arch over the flat earth . To many a mind it was the place of bliss , where care and want and age could never enter . The path to it was said to be along that bright - looking band across the sky known to us as the ...
... seemed like a solid arch over the flat earth . To many a mind it was the place of bliss , where care and want and age could never enter . The path to it was said to be along that bright - looking band across the sky known to us as the ...
الصفحة 74
... seemed to smile or frown upon him . Not only did he look upon sickness as often the work of demon - spirits , but in his fear he filled the darkness with ghosts of the dead rising from their graves , shrieking at his door , sitting in ...
... seemed to smile or frown upon him . Not only did he look upon sickness as often the work of demon - spirits , but in his fear he filled the darkness with ghosts of the dead rising from their graves , shrieking at his door , sitting in ...
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الصفحة 83 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
الصفحة 79 - For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
الصفحة 48 - The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
الصفحة 50 - A BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS of All Times and All Countries. Gathered and Narrated Anew. By the Author of
الصفحة 39 - Trench. — Works by R. CHENEVIX TRENCH, DD, Archbishop of Dublin. (For other Works by this Author, see THEOLOGICAL, HISTORICAL, and PHILOSOPHICAL CATALOGUES.) POEMS. Collected and arranged anew. Fcap. 8vo.
الصفحة 49 - THE BOOK OF PRAISE. From the best English Hymn Writers. Selected and arranged by LORD SELBORNE. A New and Enlarged Edition. THE FAIRY BOOK ; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered anew by the Author of
الصفحة 14 - REVIEW. GUESSES AT TRUTH. By Two BROTHERS. With Vignette, Title, and Frontispiece. New Edition, with Memoir. Fcap. 8vo. 6s.
الصفحة 11 - THE FAIRY BOOK ; the Best Popular Fairy Stories. Selected and rendered anew by the Author of "JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN.
الصفحة 48 - Bound in extra cloth, 4s. 6d. ; morocco plain, 7s. 6d. ; morocco extra, 10s. 6d. each volume. The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE.
الصفحة 3 - These letters are the exact account of a lady's experience of the brighter and less practical side of colonization. They record the expeditions, adventures, and emergencies diversifying the daily life of the wife of a New Zealand sheep-farmer ; and, as each was written while the novelty and excitement of the scenes it describes were fresh upon her, they may succeed in giving here in England an adequate impression of the delight and freedom of an existence so far removed from our own highly-wrought...