Sentences with phrase «of precious books»

There are book shelves in homes that contain a hodge - podge of precious books and picture albums that are placed by the measure of content value, not matching book cases with neat rows of books that are placed for aesthetics.

The participants carved some 40 life - size medieval books from Bamiyan's rosy stone, basing the pseudo-artefacts on descriptions of precious books that belonged to the library in the Fridericianum, largely destroyed in the blitzes.

Continue repeating the same lines out of your precious book, perhaps one of them will be the password to open your pearly gates.

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The bank's overall results are boosted by trading / asset management, which is half of the bank, but precious little vigorish is coming from the loan book.

We believe that Mary conceived the child by the Holy Spirit, as is made clear in the Book of Mormon: «And behold, he shall be born of Mary, at Jerusalem which is the land of our forefathers, she being a virgin, a precious and chosen vessel, who shall be overshadowed and conceive by the power of the Holy Ghost, and bring forth a son, yea, even the Son of God» (Alma 7:10).

The Book of Common Prayer had this meaning in view when it employs, in the course of the Prayer of Consecration in the service of Holy Communion, the words: «Wherefore, O Lord and heavenly Father, according to the institution of thy dearly beloved Son our Savior Jesus Christ, we, thy humble servants, do celebrate and make here, before thy Divine Majesty, with these thy holy gifts, which we now offer unto thee, the memorial thy Son hath commanded us to make; having in remembrance his blessed passion and precious death, his mighty resurrection and glorious ascension; rendering unto thee most hearty thanks for the innumerable benefits procured unto us by the same.»

In the Book of Mormon (1 Nephi iii, 40) it is asserted that «many plain and precious parts» have been removed from the Bible; and again in a revelation of Joseph Smith given June, 1830, God, speaking to Moses, declares, «I will speak unto you concerning this earth upon which thou standest and thou shalt write the things which I shall speak and in a day when the children of men shall esteem my words as naught and take many of them from the book which thou shalt write, behold I will raise up another like unto thee, and they shall be had again among the children of men, among even as many as shall beliBook of Mormon (1 Nephi iii, 40) it is asserted that «many plain and precious parts» have been removed from the Bible; and again in a revelation of Joseph Smith given June, 1830, God, speaking to Moses, declares, «I will speak unto you concerning this earth upon which thou standest and thou shalt write the things which I shall speak and in a day when the children of men shall esteem my words as naught and take many of them from the book which thou shalt write, behold I will raise up another like unto thee, and they shall be had again among the children of men, among even as many as shall belibook which thou shalt write, behold I will raise up another like unto thee, and they shall be had again among the children of men, among even as many as shall believe.

I was an adult with children of my own when I came across my baby book, the collection of precious trivia and wonder prepared for me when I was new in the world.

For him these 1504 verses represent the most precious substance of the Book, while the remaining 5112 verses are, so to speak, the envelope or shell of the teachings.

A funeral without the dead body has the religious significance of the Book of Job without the sores and boils, Exodus without the stench of frogs, Calvary without a cross, or the cross without the broken, breathless, precious body hanging there, all suffering and salvation.

Some change in my thinking on this as on other matters during the six years separating the two books can not be denied and perhaps is not to be apologized for; but critics have been mistaken if they have supposed that the authenticity and the unique quality of Jesus» humanity have ever become less precious to me than when I wrote the first book.

Prominent post-9 / 11 books like John Updike's Terrorist, Amy Waldman's The Submission, and Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist inevitably offer precious humanizations of the Muslim - American Other that are set in direct reaction to pressing geopolitical and national debates.

Similarly, in a presentation delivered at the Haskell Oriental Museum, Goodspeed expressed the hope that «there will go forth from these halls [of the University of Chicago] enlightenment, inspiration, and guidance in that learning which has come from the East and West, culminating in the Book of Books and in the teachings of the Son of Man, [which] will ever abide as our most precious possession.

If Milton was correct that «a good book is the precious life - blood of a master spirit,» television might be its Dracula.

I saw in Mohler's review of the book yet another illustration of what I have described here; for as Mohler related the book's argument, there was precious little appeal to evidence, and considerably more to morality and emotion.

Speakers at the rally included Dr. Andre Leu, president of IFOAM, Vanadana Shiva of Navdanaya, Hans Herren of the Millennium Institute, and Laura Lengnick author of the book Resilient Agriculture — Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate which is being made into 4 minute videos featuring farmer stories in their own words, along with Precious Phiri, Will Allen, and Ronnie Cummins of the Organic Consumers Association.

I have just begun to move away from wheat and other grains and your books recipes and posts are precious to me, especially since so many of your recipes fit my semi-kosher practices.

Can't wait to buy that precious book of your, дорогая голубка:) I will have to try this recipe, it looks so good!

Books After the Darkest Hour the Sun Will Shine Again: A Parent's Guide to Coping with the Loss of a Child (Elizabeth Mehren, 1997) Anna: A Daughter's Life (William Loizeaux, 1993) Always Precious in Our Memory; Reflections After Miscarriage, Stillbirth or Neonatal Death (Christine O. Lafser, 2003) Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby (Deborah L. Davis, 1996) Give Sorrow Words: A Father's Passage through Grief (Tom Crider, 1996)

Most of them get so determined that they make sure they have removed every volume within reach from the shelf and when their energy has been fully spent making sure the shelf area within their reach is empty of books, they will then sit down to begin ripping the pages off your precious volumes.

With Nayner Bug, I took a day off of work right before Jelly Bean was born and spent the entire day assembling his baby book so that I would not forget all those precious details.

Create your baby book to capture all of your baby's precious moments

Instead of treasuring what I now know are fleeting and precious days of newborn sweetness, I filled out painstakingly detailed sleep journals and read book after book and website after website that offered all manner of solution for her «problems.»

More than a log book, The Nursing Mother's Companion Breastfeeding Diary may very well become a keepsake of baby's first precious two months.

These books are a perfect gift, as they will help a new parent remember all of the precious milestones.

Among the parental joys of toddlerhood» precious hugs and kisses, repeated renditions of the ABC song, adorable words and phrases to record in memory books» successful use of the potty ranks right up there at the top.

Those early days of baby life can be such a haze and even though we try to remember all the special and sweet memories, we're often so tired and too overwhelmed to write all those special memories down — but, with the gorgeous books from Echo Art Bindery, you're not only going to have a special place to record all the memories, but want to take the time to sit down and savor writing all of your precious memories.

In the midst of Midwifery school where details on the hows of birth are heavily concentrated on I pick up this book when I need to «feel» that deep - seeded passion that Midwives have for their careers and their precious patients.

This tender book has given me, as a student Nurse - Midwife, a precious insight to the essence of Midwifery that has gotten lost for some.

Maybe in NCEF's holy books — and those of its media confederates — some lives are more precious than others?

ALBANY — In an upcoming book, longtime Capitol correspondent Tom Precious will tell the story of casinos in modern New York, including the current process of siting up to four gambling halls upstate, the pacts between Native American tribes and past governors that gave birth to Turning Stone and the three casinos operated by the Seneca Nation of Indians, as well as the video slot parlors approved by state leaders in 2001, just weeks after the September 11 attacks.

But even if an institution has a good policy on the books, female scientists may still be reluctant to take significant time off for fear of damaging their reputations or losing precious time.

This precious gem of a book is a great motivator for getting on track spiritually, mentally and physically.

We've added some of the most precious books to our collection this year, our favorite one being «Lamb».

Brooke, my intern, found this book: Love Letters of Great Men and it looks too precious not to pick up and read!

Anyway, a bunch of other, comparably awesome nonsense goes down in The Book of Eli: Our man Denzel rescues a mother - daughter team of virtuous babes (Jennifer Beals and Mila Kunis), reluctantly takes tea with dotty cannibal retirees George and Martha (Michael Gambon and Frances de la Tour), and pays a crazy pawnbroker (Tom Waits) to recharge his MP3 player using precious KFC wet naps as currency.

I shared the same concerns as other fans of the book: This was such a precious thing, I felt like I owned it to an extent — how could I trust anyone else to understand it so fully, to feel it so completely?

The film chronicles the real - life heist of precious rare books from Transylvania University in 2004 Kentucky, pulled off by a quartet of mostly well - off college students.

But women wrote the books on which 2009's cycle - of - poverty drama «Precious» and 2014's adventure tale «Wild» — both of which held significant mother - daughter content — were based.

Unlike so many recent comic book based movies, Miller is able to string together scene after scene of action / racing / beating / shooting while still remembering to give us reason to care about his heroes, who are given precious little time to talk things over.

In the center of the library, a glass tower filled with precious books rises six stories to touch the ceiling.

For a guy who has edited Toni Morrison, Nora Ephron, and others, he comes as across as a seriously uninformed dick who delights in «mansplaining» everything that is wrong with a wildly successful genre (that earns enough money to pretty much keep the rest of the industry flourishing and off life support because there are only so many painfully precious lit fic books one can read before wanting to go to a poetry reading and sarcastically catcall the people at the mic) that is dominated by women who for the most part seem to know what they are doing and drive 90 % of the innovation in book marketing and sub-genres.

Why should a potential reader give a book they've never heard about a precious ninety seconds of their day?

Life lessons, love, work, peace and the future of our precious planet: these are the subjects under idiosyncratic discussion by 50 notable individuals interviewed in writer / photographer Andrew Zuckerman's sublime, engaging book Wisdom, which is accompanied by a DVD of the author's documentary of the same name.

Her most fun, and slightly paradoxical, tips involve preserving your precious volumes and demolishing others to use in a host of lit - nerd crafting projects — including a ladder shelf, a lighted book box, a bed headboard constructed with tessellated book spines and linens printed with your favorite text passages.

That means that we're more selective about what we read because each book must demonstrate that it's worthy of our precious time.

Even if I agree for the sake of argument that books are precious snowflakes, it doesn't follow that Amazon is therefore obliged to sell them at all, much less sell them on equal terms to the books of Publishers who do have a contract.That this argument gets any coverage at all underscores the desperate need for improved media literacy in this country.

When you're in the middle of a book promotion campaign, every interview opportunity is precious.

Now save a lot of your precious time and get the book you want in only a few seconds.