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... present ; and the reason is checked in its duty of censure or of praise . The forty - five years from the Reformation in 1560 , to the union of the crowns in 1605 , is crowded with incidents for the politician , who wishes facts for any ...
... present ; and the reason is checked in its duty of censure or of praise . The forty - five years from the Reformation in 1560 , to the union of the crowns in 1605 , is crowded with incidents for the politician , who wishes facts for any ...
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... present case , by her assumption of excellence , and by the tone and temper in which she writes , she has resigned the privi- leges which we would otherwise be the first willingly to concede . Speaking of the accusers of the Queen ...
... present case , by her assumption of excellence , and by the tone and temper in which she writes , she has resigned the privi- leges which we would otherwise be the first willingly to concede . Speaking of the accusers of the Queen ...
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... present hour is the law of the British empire , and which calami- tous necessity has created a fundamental principle of monarchical politics . Mr. Tytler , in truth , closed the volume of history when he wrote this portion of Mary's ...
... present hour is the law of the British empire , and which calami- tous necessity has created a fundamental principle of monarchical politics . Mr. Tytler , in truth , closed the volume of history when he wrote this portion of Mary's ...
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... present , and assisters unto those that were executors of the deed . " - ( Ellis ' Letters , vol . ii . , p . 208. ) In defiance of this explicit declaration , that " the chief authorities " were authentic statements made by the special ...
... present , and assisters unto those that were executors of the deed . " - ( Ellis ' Letters , vol . ii . , p . 208. ) In defiance of this explicit declaration , that " the chief authorities " were authentic statements made by the special ...
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... present , close our strictures with a few observations on the general characteristics of the later volumes of this History . In reading the account of the Reformation , its causes and its results , one's feelings of indignation at the ...
... present , close our strictures with a few observations on the general characteristics of the later volumes of this History . In reading the account of the Reformation , its causes and its results , one's feelings of indignation at the ...
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Page 519 - Truly he was exceedingly beloved in the Army, of all that knew him. But few knew him; for he was a precious young man, fit for God. You have cause to bless the Lord. He is a glorious Saint in Heaven; wherein you ought exceedingly to rejoice. Let this drink up your sorrow; seeing these are not feigned words to comfort you, but the thing is so real and undoubted a truth.
Page 69 - ... which grace has prepared and beautified shall be gathered and selected from the ruins of the world to adorn that eternal city which hath no need of the sun neither of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God doth enlighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. Let us obey the voice that calls us thither ; let us seek the things that are above, and no longer cleave to a world which must shortly perish, and which we must shortly quit, while we neglect to prepare for that in which we are invited...
Page 518 - Sir, God hath taken away your eldest son by a cannonshot. It brake his leg. We were necessitated to have it cut off, whereof he died.
Page 2 - The work is performed, first by railing at the stupidity, negligence, ignorance, and asinine tastelessness of the former editors, and shewing, from all that goes before and all that follows, the inelegance and absurdity of the old reading; then by proposing something, which to superficial readers would seem specious, but which the editor rejects with...
Page 350 - Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
Page 518 - Ives : how he saluted men on the streets ; read Bibles ; sold cattle ; and walked, with heavy footfall and many thoughts, through the Market Green or old narrow lanes in St. Ives, by the shore of the black Ouse River, — shall be left to the reader's imagination. There is in this man talent for farming ; there are thoughts enough, thoughts bounded by the Ouse River, thoughts that go beyond Eternity, — and a great black sea of things that he has never yet been able to think.
Page 517 - ... spiritual temples, they are the men truly charitable, truly pious. Such a work as this was your erecting the Lecture in our Country ; in the which you placed Dr. Wells, a man of goodness and industry, and ability to do good every way ; not short of any I know in England : and I am persuaded that, sithence his coming, the Lord hath by him wrought much good among us.
Page 44 - I have served in spirit, in the Gospel of his Son, that I have taught nothing but the true and solid doctrine of the Gospel of the Son of God, and have had it for my only object to instruct the ignorant, to confirm the faithful, to comfort the weak, the fearful, and the distressed by -the promises of grace, and to fight against the proud and rebellious by the divine threatcnings.
Page 69 - Meanwhile, heaven is attracting to itself whatever is congenial to its nature, is enriching itself by the spoils of earth, and collecting within its capacious bosom whatever is pure, permanent, and divine, leaving nothing for the last fire to consume but the...
Page 127 - Not a track remains of a single foot, or a single hoof, of all the countless millions of men and beasts whose progress spread desolation over the earth ; but the reptiles, that crawled upon the half-finished surface of our infant planet, have left memorials of their passage, enduring and indelible.