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Page 311 - For the Son of man is come to save that which was lost. 12 How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and...
Page 162 - May he celestial joy rehearse, And thought to thought with me converse, Or in my stead, all the night long, Sing to my God a grateful song.
Page 57 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.
Page 194 - For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red : it is full mixed, and he poureth out of the same.
Page 160 - Know thus far forth. — By accident most strange, bountiful fortune, Now my dear lady, hath mine enemies Brought to this shore ; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
Page 220 - Melampronvea ; or, a Discourse of the Polity and Kingdom of Darkness ; together with a Solution of the chiefest Objections brought against the being of Witches.
Page 89 - AND WITHAM. — A System of Figure Skating. Being the Theory and Practice of the Art as developed in England, with a Glance at its Origin and History.
Page 41 - But even this trick shall not provoke me to print the true one, which indeed is not proper to be seen till I can be seen no more...
Page 280 - But shall we go mourn for that, my dear ? The cold moon shines by night, And when we wander here and there, We then do go most right ' * After all, these honest gentlemen are like Queen Elizabeth in their ideas of portrait-painting.
Page 97 - If thou art borrowed by a friend, Right welcome shall he be To read, to study, not to lend, But to return to me.