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... thing that illustrates the cha- racters of the individuals recorded ; and no party bias has been allowed to falsify the colouring , or select partial and garbled extracts . When it is considered how immense is the apparatus of printed ...
... thing that illustrates the cha- racters of the individuals recorded ; and no party bias has been allowed to falsify the colouring , or select partial and garbled extracts . When it is considered how immense is the apparatus of printed ...
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... things that are so HERE are few things that are so the Metropolis as accidents by fire . It must be left to abler heads than mine , to explain how it happens , that there are few houses burnt down in the country towns , and even in ...
... things that are so HERE are few things that are so the Metropolis as accidents by fire . It must be left to abler heads than mine , to explain how it happens , that there are few houses burnt down in the country towns , and even in ...
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... things which should have been for his wealth , ure unto him an occasion of falling . ” Had I been disposed to enter into an argument with the good lady , I might have shewn the tendency of Popery to generate Infidelity * , where the ...
... things which should have been for his wealth , ure unto him an occasion of falling . ” Had I been disposed to enter into an argument with the good lady , I might have shewn the tendency of Popery to generate Infidelity * , where the ...
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... thing of the state of Religion , or rather Irreligion , in Wales , will , I am sure , agree with me in saying , that ... things of heaven , yet by no means despise the things of the earth . Should there be a Bible So- ciety established ...
... thing of the state of Religion , or rather Irreligion , in Wales , will , I am sure , agree with me in saying , that ... things of heaven , yet by no means despise the things of the earth . Should there be a Bible So- ciety established ...
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... thing would it be , not merely for the Ecclesi- astical , but also for the Civil World , if the Bench of Bishops , instead of forming plans for curtailing the rights and privileges , and for depressing and degrading the characters , of ...
... thing would it be , not merely for the Ecclesi- astical , but also for the Civil World , if the Bench of Bishops , instead of forming plans for curtailing the rights and privileges , and for depressing and degrading the characters , of ...
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Page 292 - For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book...
Page 436 - THERE was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell.
Page 345 - The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 128 - Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Page 436 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed, The mustering squadron, and the clattering car, Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 30 - But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
Page 435 - Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image, even as I do now.
Page 30 - Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there. And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in...
Page 255 - Some slight lucid moments he had ; in one of which, the queen, desiring to see him, entered the room, and found him singing a hymn, and accompanying himself at the harpsichord. When he had finished, he knelt down and prayed aloud for her, and then for his family, and then for the nation, concluding with a prayer for himself, that it might please God to avert his heavy calamity from him, but if not, to give him resignation to submit. He then burst into tears, and his reason again fled.
Page 436 - But hark that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before ! Arm! arm! it is — it is the cannon's opening roar!