Secular Annotations on Scripture TextsHodder & Stoughton, 1870 - 403 pages |
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... French preacher , of the Reformed faith , has a striking discourse on what he entitles the solidarity of evil ; and he too dilates upon the mysterious links which connect together persons and acts that appear to have nothing in common ...
... French preacher , of the Reformed faith , has a striking discourse on what he entitles the solidarity of evil ; and he too dilates upon the mysterious links which connect together persons and acts that appear to have nothing in common ...
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... French grammar , they now and then should be kept fasting ; and , if they cut their finger , should have no plaster till it festered . No part of a royal brat's memory , which is good enough , should be burthened but with the ...
... French grammar , they now and then should be kept fasting ; and , if they cut their finger , should have no plaster till it festered . No part of a royal brat's memory , which is good enough , should be burthened but with the ...
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... French romance , is made to say to , and at , Anne of Austria , that kings are so far removed from other people , from the " vulgar herd , " that they forget that others ever stand in need of the bare necessaries of life . She likens ...
... French romance , is made to say to , and at , Anne of Austria , that kings are so far removed from other people , from the " vulgar herd , " that they forget that others ever stand in need of the bare necessaries of life . She likens ...
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... French to Spanish olives , and are curious about the yellow seal ; gay riders in padded chariots ; proud cavaliers of blood- horses , you don't know how painfully and slowly , almost ago- nisingly , the poor have to scrape and save ...
... French to Spanish olives , and are curious about the yellow seal ; gay riders in padded chariots ; proud cavaliers of blood- horses , you don't know how painfully and slowly , almost ago- nisingly , the poor have to scrape and save ...
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... French doctor , Guillotin , is even now not uncommonly believed to have perished in the reign of terror by the instrument invented by and named after him ; whereas he quietly died in his bed , many , many years later than that . But the ...
... French doctor , Guillotin , is even now not uncommonly believed to have perished in the reign of terror by the instrument invented by and named after him ; whereas he quietly died in his bed , many , many years later than that . But the ...
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Page 187 - By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Page 2 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Page 5 - Grey. But then I sigh, and with a piece of Scripture, Tell them — that God bids us do good for evil ; And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends, stolen forth of holy writ ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Page 249 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Page 338 - Wherefore criest thou unto me ? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward : but lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it : and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
Page 338 - Nebuchadnezzar : and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds
Page 218 - Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king?
Page 341 - At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 202 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.