Littell's Living Age, Volume 189Littell, Son and Company, 1891 - American periodicals |
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... England , and of the many movements , social and religious , which at various times affected it . These studies , which he continued throughout his long career , soon tempted him into frequent authorship . But with the single exception ...
... England , and of the many movements , social and religious , which at various times affected it . These studies , which he continued throughout his long career , soon tempted him into frequent authorship . But with the single exception ...
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... England turn out fifty per- tion by the House , and in the manner in which sons at once , and burn their houses over most knowledge of details could be procured ; their heads , giving them no provision for if , for instance , the Irish ...
... England turn out fifty per- tion by the House , and in the manner in which sons at once , and burn their houses over most knowledge of details could be procured ; their heads , giving them no provision for if , for instance , the Irish ...
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... England the lasting gratitude of the Italian people at the very time when the third Napoleon was en- gaged in wiping out the memories of Magenta and Solferino by those under- ground processes only fully revealed to the world in the ...
... England the lasting gratitude of the Italian people at the very time when the third Napoleon was en- gaged in wiping out the memories of Magenta and Solferino by those under- ground processes only fully revealed to the world in the ...
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... England was saved from what , judging indeed after the event , it can be seen would have been a gigantic blunder , is matter of history . The dis- like of the nation to a war which was not clearly necessary ; the divisions in the His ...
... England was saved from what , judging indeed after the event , it can be seen would have been a gigantic blunder , is matter of history . The dis- like of the nation to a war which was not clearly necessary ; the divisions in the His ...
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... England , adequate motive for such a change of atti- and , in his place in Parliament , supported tude ; or , in any case , not to have realized the continuance of the war . Almost that the support of France ought never simultaneously ...
... England , adequate motive for such a change of atti- and , in his place in Parliament , supported tude ; or , in any case , not to have realized the continuance of the war . Almost that the support of France ought never simultaneously ...
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Page 332 - Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
Page 200 - In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed.
Page 200 - I could scarce reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which he set me an example on Sunday ; having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church.
Page 46 - Ne'er tell me of glories serenely adorning The close of our day, the calm eve of our night : — Give me back, give me back the wild freshness of Morning, Her clouds and her tears are worth Evening's best light.
Page 48 - Lord with holy worship. 3 It is the Lord, that commandeth the waters : it is the glorious God, that maketh the thunder. 4 It is the Lord, that ruleth the sea; the voice of the Lord is mighty in operation : the voice of the Lord is a glorious voice. 5 The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedar-trees : yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Libanus.
Page 550 - I formed a noose, and fixed it about my neck, straining it so tight that I hardly left a passage for my breath, or for the blood to circulate ; the tongue of the buckle held it fast. At each corner of the bed was placed a wreath of carved work, fastened by an iron pin, which passed up through the midst of it : the other part of the garter, which made a loop, I slipped over one of...
Page 375 - I break in upon you at a moment when we least of all are permitted to disturb our friends, only to say, that you are daily and hourly present to my thoughts. If the worst* be not yet past, you will neglect and pardon me : but if the last struggle be over; if the poor object of your long anxieties be no longer sensible to your kindness, or to her own sufferings, allow me (at least in idea, for what could I do were I present more than this?) to sit by you in silence, and pity from...
Page 291 - The good Mr John Wesley has done in America, under God, is inexpressible. His name is very precious among the people ; and he has laid such a foundation, that I hope neither men nor devils will ever be able to shake.
Page 291 - It is now two years and almost four months since I left my native country, in order to teach the Georgian Indians the nature of Christianity, but what have I learned myself in the meantime ? Why (what I the least of all suspected), that I, who went to America to convert others, was never myself converted to God; (I am not sure of this).
Page 331 - ... to the wilderness of Paran. 2 And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.