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Page 18
... pleased him also to open the eyes " of your heart * . " It has been mentioned before , that Lady Jane's father had two chaplains , Messrs . Harding and Ayl- mer , who were also her preceptors . Mr. Harding , it seems , was , in King ...
... pleased him also to open the eyes " of your heart * . " It has been mentioned before , that Lady Jane's father had two chaplains , Messrs . Harding and Ayl- mer , who were also her preceptors . Mr. Harding , it seems , was , in King ...
Page 27
... pleased God to " hasten my death by you , by whom my life should " rather have been lengthened , yet can I so pa- " tiently take it , as I yield God more hearty thanks 66 for shortening my woful days , than if all the " world had been ...
... pleased God to " hasten my death by you , by whom my life should " rather have been lengthened , yet can I so pa- " tiently take it , as I yield God more hearty thanks 66 for shortening my woful days , than if all the " world had been ...
Page 40
... pleased with her visit , and addressed her in a very obliging manner ; and , breaking off his discourse with his attendants , he began of his own accord , contrary to his usual custom , to confer with her about matters of religion ...
... pleased with her visit , and addressed her in a very obliging manner ; and , breaking off his discourse with his attendants , he began of his own accord , contrary to his usual custom , to confer with her about matters of religion ...
Page 60
... pleased Providence , that soon after , at the siege of Orleans , the King of Navarre was wounded in the shoulder , of which he languished about three weeks , and then died . The next design of the above - mentioned faction was , to ...
... pleased Providence , that soon after , at the siege of Orleans , the King of Navarre was wounded in the shoulder , of which he languished about three weeks , and then died . The next design of the above - mentioned faction was , to ...
Page 91
... pleased when new opportunities were offered to her , in which she might exercise that which was the most esteemed by her of all her prerogatives . So desirous was she to know both how to correct what might be amiss , and to promote ...
... pleased when new opportunities were offered to her , in which she might exercise that which was the most esteemed by her of all her prerogatives . So desirous was she to know both how to correct what might be amiss , and to promote ...
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Popular passages
Page 313 - Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right : for that shall bring a man peace at the last.
Page 25 - 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.
Page 4 - Duchess, with all the household, gentlemen and gentlewomen, were hunting in the park. I found her in her chamber reading...
Page 315 - Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands, and Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet...
Page 4 - I wis, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.
Page 224 - Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.
Page 252 - When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me; because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me : and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.
Page 425 - I am the LORD'S"; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
Page 70 - Thou art, of what sort the eternal life of the saints was to be, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 5 - I am with him. And when I am called from him, I fall on weeping, because whatsoever I do else but learning is full of grief, trouble, fear, and whole misliking unto me. And thus my book hath been so much my pleasure, and bringeth daily to me more pleasure and more, that in respect of it all other pleasures, in very deed, be but trifles and troubles unto me.