Chapters on everyday things, or, Histories and marvels in common life, by the author of 'Ten steps in the narrow way'. |
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
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مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 13 - When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder : Then did he see it, and declare it ; he prepared it, yea and searched it out. And unto man he said, Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom ; and to depart from evil is understanding.
الصفحة 44 - And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire ; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly...
الصفحة 13 - The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand : and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
الصفحة 14 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
الصفحة 44 - And the Light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame : and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day...
الصفحة 219 - This famous town of Mansoul had five gates in at which to come, out at which to go ; and these were made likewise answerable to the walls — to wit, impregnable, and such as could never be opened nor forced but by the will and leave of those within. The names of the gates were these — Ear-gate, Eyegate, Mouth-gate, Nose-gate, and Feel-gate.
الصفحة 22 - The effect is heightened by the contrast of the coal-black color of these vegetables with the light ground-work of the rock to which they are attached. The spectator feels himself transported, as if by enchantment, into the forests of another world ; he beholds trees of forms and characters now unknown upon the surface of the earth, presented to his senses almost in the beauty and vigor of their primeval life...