A Man's Foes, Volume 1Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1895 |
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Page 182 - For look how high the heaven is in comparison of the earth ; so great is his mercy also toward them that fear Him. 12 Look how wide also the east is from the west ; so far hath He set our sins from us.
Page 182 - Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children, even so is the Lord merciful unto them that fear Him. 14 For He knoweth whereof we are made ; He remembereth that we are but dust.
Page 165 - ... require to be dealt with for as long a period as it is possible to survey, should the League continue and become firmly established. In face of the wonder of flight and the vast field of possibilities which it opens up, any anticipation of what the future holds is hazardous to the verge of rashness. " 'Tis a strange thing, and hath the look of a premeditation of fate to discredit our forecasting, how rarely the thing we confidently expect comes to pass...
Page 109 - Papists, a despot among slaves ; a thousand easy maidens deeming it honour to serve his pleasure, a thousand wild ruffians deeming it piety to fulfil his revenge : and let him that is without sin among us cast the first stone.
Page 40 - Alarmed at these menaces, Abu Talcb exhorted Mahomet to abandon his hopeless task. " Spare thy remonstrances," replied the daring fanatic ; " though the idolaters should arm against me the sun and the moon, planting the one on my right hand and the other on my left, they would not turn me aside from my resolution.
Page 263 - O'Connor before him, it seemed to be a case of " out of the frying-pan into the fire...
Page 140 - I said, and shut the door behind him ; he gave a glance around, and * then locked the door and put the key in his pocket.
Page 110 - But,' added he, after a pause, ' it's an irritating thing, after all, to see him deliberately putting it out of his own power and out of the power of his friends to do anything else.
Page 225 - Browning was he that brought me the tidings, coming into my presence on one of those days of waiting with a flush on his cheek and a fire in his eye that prepared me for the great news he brought.