Excelsior: Helps to Progress in Religion, Science, and Literature, Volumer 5-6James Hamilton James Nisbet and Company, Berners Street, 1856 |
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... thought and exquisite diction which have descended to us in the cold but pel- lucid page of classic authorship , like Alpine relics en- tombed in their crystal catacombs ; or you may devote yourself to glean the wisdom and the momentous ...
... thought and exquisite diction which have descended to us in the cold but pel- lucid page of classic authorship , like Alpine relics en- tombed in their crystal catacombs ; or you may devote yourself to glean the wisdom and the momentous ...
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... thought " would be good for his descendants ; " and thenceforward he became his own executor . As has been truly remarked by his ac- complished son and affectionate biographer , " He was a living example of a successful merchant , who ...
... thought " would be good for his descendants ; " and thenceforward he became his own executor . As has been truly remarked by his ac- complished son and affectionate biographer , " He was a living example of a successful merchant , who ...
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... true God , " he thought to compel them , at the point of the sword , to take upon them the yoke of the meek and lowly Saviour , the Prince of Peace ; and he enforced the profession of Christianity under severe penalties.
... true God , " he thought to compel them , at the point of the sword , to take upon them the yoke of the meek and lowly Saviour , the Prince of Peace ; and he enforced the profession of Christianity under severe penalties.
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... thought that I had been en- trapped into an engagement which he seemed to look upon as anything but suitable or agreeable . The truth is , that my friend had lived for some years in the States , and , though an intelligent and naturally ...
... thought that I had been en- trapped into an engagement which he seemed to look upon as anything but suitable or agreeable . The truth is , that my friend had lived for some years in the States , and , though an intelligent and naturally ...
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... thought of introducing into Italy the doctrines of Calvin , Luther , or John Huss , or some new doctrine . The fact of his having been the intimate friend of Sir Henry Wotton , the English ambassador at Venice from 1604 to 1610 , and of ...
... thought of introducing into Italy the doctrines of Calvin , Luther , or John Huss , or some new doctrine . The fact of his having been the intimate friend of Sir Henry Wotton , the English ambassador at Venice from 1604 to 1610 , and of ...
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Side 17 - Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die : for I have not found thy works perfect before God.
Side 421 - But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison ; and now do they thrust us out privily ? nay, verily ; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.
Side 420 - And Paul said; I would to God, that not only thou, but also all that hear me this day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
Side 111 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Side 110 - Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Side 135 - Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble his delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...
Side 75 - HE clasps the crag with hooked hands : Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls ; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Side 110 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse, and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.
Side 253 - Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. Thou that sittest at the right hand of God the Father, have mercy upon us.
Side 410 - To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...