The ruins of the ParacleteStringer & Townsend, 1852 - Spanish fiction |
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ADADUS CALPE agent of police agitated arms arrive Barcelona Baron de Vieux beautiful believe blood body breast breath captain Catalonians cause cavern countenance country girl daugh daughter death delicious Doctor door earth estrapade eyes father fear feet Feliú Flamangel Flaneur forgive France gallows girl give hands head hear heard heart Heaven Hector horrors hour ignorant imagine innocent José Kant lantern leave light lips live looks louis-d'or Luisa Martha ment Montereau morning mouth Muchetampot munda mysterious night noble Nogent o'clock Paraclete Paris passed passions Phrenology physician pleasure plebeians poor portmanteau Préfet rage raven religion rich river Rosamunda ruins sage Schmidt seen silence sleep smile solitude soul sous-préfet speak suffer sulphuric ether tears tell thing thou told trembling turned unhappy vaults victims voice weep wife wish woman words young youth
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Page 57 - And he will appoint him captains over thousands and captains over fifties, and will set them to ear his ground and to reap his harvest and to make his instruments of war and instruments of his chariots.
Page 96 - Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: for I was hungry, and ye gave me to eat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Page 142 - Thy will be done on earth even as it is done in heaven," should be the utterance of our hearts.
Page 139 - ... open casements, and I well remember the sensation of repose with which we congratulated one another on the grandmother's not having been present ; and though the consciousness of a far higher presence was strong in our hearts, we experienced also somewhat of that feeling which made king David say, " Let us fall now into the hand of the Lord, and let us not fall into the hand of man.
Page 96 - Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these my little ones, ye have done it unto me!
Page 142 - If ye were of the world, the world would love his own ; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen -you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you." " If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you.
Page 56 - Baron with his powerful hand, went out by the door opposite to that by which he had entered, and...
Page 136 - ... that the wisdom of the world is foolishness in the eyes of God ; and thence it has happened that Schmidt sees always this world-watchfulness of the Supreme Being in all created things.
Page vii - Andrews deny in the most direct and positive manner that any such assurances were given, or agreement made as alleged in the bill. If the allegations of the bill are true, and the denials of the answers false, it is the misfortune of Handy that he had no witness to swear to the truth of the one and the falsity of the other. The substance of such portions of the depositions read upon the hearing, as are deemed material to the issue, is as follows: JOHN FIELD testified that in January, 1848, he purchased...
Page 125 - I'll bet you don't know what he said to me. — What did he say to you?