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Page 20
... Holy Thursday , and a great part of the population was assembled in the churches . Nothing seemed to pre- sage the calamities of the day . At seven minutes after four in the afternoon the first shock was felt ; it was suf- ficiently ...
... Holy Thursday , and a great part of the population was assembled in the churches . Nothing seemed to pre- sage the calamities of the day . At seven minutes after four in the afternoon the first shock was felt ; it was suf- ficiently ...
Page 22
... Holy Thursday presented the most distress- ing scene of desolation and sorrow . That thick cloud of dust , which , rising above the ruins , darkened the sky like a fog , had settled on the ground . No shock was felt , and never was a ...
... Holy Thursday presented the most distress- ing scene of desolation and sorrow . That thick cloud of dust , which , rising above the ruins , darkened the sky like a fog , had settled on the ground . No shock was felt , and never was a ...
Page 49
... holy , if that mystery Of co - united hearts be sacrament ; If the unbounded goodness have infused A sacred ardour of a mutual love Into our species ; if those amorous joys , Those sweets of life , those comforts even in death , Spring ...
... holy , if that mystery Of co - united hearts be sacrament ; If the unbounded goodness have infused A sacred ardour of a mutual love Into our species ; if those amorous joys , Those sweets of life , those comforts even in death , Spring ...
Page 64
... holy reverence ; and , during the course of their disobedience , scrupulously comply with his orders in every point , except when he requires a resignation of their independence , or some sacrifice injurious to it . When he sends his ...
... holy reverence ; and , during the course of their disobedience , scrupulously comply with his orders in every point , except when he requires a resignation of their independence , or some sacrifice injurious to it . When he sends his ...
Page 65
... holy war pass immediately into paradise . Wash not their bodies , ' says the prophet ; every wound which they bear will smell sweeter than musk in the day of judgment . ' While to Jews and Christians the alternative of conversion or ...
... holy war pass immediately into paradise . Wash not their bodies , ' says the prophet ; every wound which they bear will smell sweeter than musk in the day of judgment . ' While to Jews and Christians the alternative of conversion or ...
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