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Sayfa 9 - All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Sayfa 719 - Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, 3 and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt : speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine 4 own, and I have made it for myself.
Sayfa 719 - ... to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water : for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
Sayfa 77 - River, which sum shall be immediately available and shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War in accordance with the plans, specifications, and recommendations of the Mississippi River...
Sayfa 88 - ... appropriation shall be expended to repair or build levees for the purpose of reclaiming lands or preventing injury to lands or private property by overflows: Provided...
Sayfa 719 - Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it. Therefore thus saith the Lord God...
Sayfa 74 - It shall be the duty of said commission to take into consideration and mature such plan or plans and estimates as will correct, permanently locate, and deepen the channel and protect the banks of the Mississippi River; improve and give safety and ease to the navigation thereof; prevent destructive floods; promote and facilitate commerce, trade, and the postal service...
Sayfa 719 - Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature;, and his top was among the thick boughs. The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants. and sent out her little rivers nnto all the trees of the field.
Sayfa 77 - Congress assembled, That the sum of one million dollars is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the improvement of the Mississippi river from the head of the Passes to the mouth of the Ohio river...
Sayfa 704 - RIVERS. THE progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.