Alroy: Ixion in Heaven. The Infernal Marriage. Popanilla

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Longmans, Green, and Company, 1845 - 463 pages

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Page 117 - Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not ; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
Page 106 - Sing, O heavens ; and be joyful, O earth ; and break forth into singing, O mountains : for the Lord hath comforted his people, and will have mercy upon his afflicted.
Page 104 - Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.
Page 104 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 152 - Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree : and ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire : and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Page 105 - Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
Page 16 - Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
Page 427 - Popanilla's disorder was neither ' liver,' nor ' nervous,' but ' mind : ' that he had done too much ; that he had overworked his brain ; that he must take more exercise ; that he must breathe more air ; that he must have relaxation ; that he must have change of scene. ' Where shall I go ? ' was the first question which Popanilla had sent forth for a fortnight, and it was addressed to Skindeep. ' Really, your Excellency, I am the last man in the world to answer questions ; but the place which is generally...
Page 258 - Among the other spectacles of rare and stupendous luxury was a tree of gold and silver spreading into eighteen large branches, on which and on the lesser boughs sat a variety of birds made of the same precious metals, as well as the leaves of the tree. White the machinery affected spontaneous motions, the several birds warbled their natural harmony.
Page 112 - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD...

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