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... morning he had spent in the Bodleian library . With slow hushed steps he had passed round the noble room , looking long at the endless rows of dark tomes lining the walls , and feeling something of a pang that to him so many were sealed ...
... morning he had spent in the Bodleian library . With slow hushed steps he had passed round the noble room , looking long at the endless rows of dark tomes lining the walls , and feeling something of a pang that to him so many were sealed ...
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... morning of that ghastly execution . Was it through a dull inadver- tence or a keen sense of contrast , that close beside this tragic memorial lay the autograph of Burns , " On a Louse . " Ah well ! thus life is ; so strangely mingled ...
... morning of that ghastly execution . Was it through a dull inadver- tence or a keen sense of contrast , that close beside this tragic memorial lay the autograph of Burns , " On a Louse . " Ah well ! thus life is ; so strangely mingled ...
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... morning was chill , sat down beside my dressing - table and wrote a letter . " Love conquered pride . There was a full confession that I had misread my own heart ; that if he continued to care for me as once he did , it would be my joy ...
... morning was chill , sat down beside my dressing - table and wrote a letter . " Love conquered pride . There was a full confession that I had misread my own heart ; that if he continued to care for me as once he did , it would be my joy ...
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... morning , carrying with him costly presents from Sir Oliver , who was famed alike for his great wealth and his munificence , for he inherited all the estates of his ancestor , Sir Richard , and these included many of those rich ...
... morning , carrying with him costly presents from Sir Oliver , who was famed alike for his great wealth and his munificence , for he inherited all the estates of his ancestor , Sir Richard , and these included many of those rich ...
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... morning by way of Southampton to Havre . Guy had gone to meet his uncle on landing , lest , as he said , dear old ... mornings , and there is another English girl in the house ; but we don't take to each other very much , and so we ...
... morning by way of Southampton to Havre . Guy had gone to meet his uncle on landing , lest , as he said , dear old ... mornings , and there is another English girl in the house ; but we don't take to each other very much , and so we ...
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Page 896 - Apostles, martyrs, prophets there Around my Saviour stand ; And soon my friends in Christ below Will join the glorious band. 6 Jerusalem, my happy home, My soul still pants for thee ; Then shall my labours have an end, When I thy joys shall see.
Page 396 - And here it is to be noted, that such Ornaments of the Church and of the Ministers thereof, at all Times of their Ministration, shall be retained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England, by the Authority of Parliament, in the Second Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth.
Page 103 - are most of them old decayed serving men, and tapsters and such kind of fellows and,' said I, 'their troops are gentlemen's sons, younger sons and persons of quality. Do you think that the spirits of such base and mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen that have honour and courage and resolution in them?
Page 396 - THE body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for thee, preserve thy body and soul unto everlasting life ! Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for thee ; and feed on him in thy heart by faith with thanksgiving.
Page 895 - Jerusalem, my happy home, When shall I come to thee ? When shall my sorrows have an end, Thy joys when shall I see...
Page 896 - There happier bowers than Eden's bloom, Nor sin nor sorrow know ; Blest seats ! through rude and stormy scenes I onward press to you.
Page 684 - Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts; shut not thy merciful ears to our prayer; but spare us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty, O holy and merciful Saviour, thou most worthy Judge eternal, suffer us not, at our last hour, for any pains of death, to fall from thee.
Page 540 - Lo ! on a narrow neck of land, 'Twixt two unbounded seas I stand, Secure, insensible ; A point of time, a moment's space, Removes me to that heavenly place, Or shuts me up in hell.
Page 475 - The Offering of Christ once made is that perfect redemption, propitiation, and satisfaction, for all the sins of the whole world, both original and actual; and there is none other satisfaction for sin, but that alone. Wherefore the sacrifices of Masses, in the which it was commonly said, that the Priest did offer Christ for the quick and the dead, to have remission of pain or guilt, were blasphemous fables, and dangerous deceits.
Page 336 - LOVE : — what a volume in a word, an ocean in a tear, A seventh heaven in a glance, a whirlwind in a sigh, The lightning in a touch, a millennium in a moment...