Our native land, or, Scenes and sketches from British history, by the author of 'Scriptural instruction for the least and lowest'.1855 |
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... happy change . We have just seen how knowledge was extending , and how people were beginning to think , and study and enquire for themselves , on all subjects . And then , in different countries , God was pre- paring one and another as ...
... happy change . We have just seen how knowledge was extending , and how people were beginning to think , and study and enquire for themselves , on all subjects . And then , in different countries , God was pre- paring one and another as ...
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... be every hope of a happy and prosperous reign . In the early part of the reign of Henry VIII , some victories were gained over the French , and also over the Scotch . The king of Scot- land at that time was James IV , and he.
... be every hope of a happy and prosperous reign . In the early part of the reign of Henry VIII , some victories were gained over the French , and also over the Scotch . The king of Scot- land at that time was James IV , and he.
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... happy art which had been invented , as I told you , in the last century , books could be put forth much more quickly , and in much larger numbers than formerly ; and how nobly was that art applied , in multiplying copies of the word of ...
... happy art which had been invented , as I told you , in the last century , books could be put forth much more quickly , and in much larger numbers than formerly ; and how nobly was that art applied , in multiplying copies of the word of ...
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... happy thought struck him . It was this . Though the large quarto volumes would be seized , smaller octavos might pass unobserved ; and no orders had been given about them . They could be more easily concealed , and the size would not ...
... happy thought struck him . It was this . Though the large quarto volumes would be seized , smaller octavos might pass unobserved ; and no orders had been given about them . They could be more easily concealed , and the size would not ...
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... happy days those were for England , and how thankful we should feel , as we read of this blessed change , to that God who had ordered all things so wisely and mercifully for the in- troduction of the truth into our land ! But opposition ...
... happy days those were for England , and how thankful we should feel , as we read of this blessed change , to that God who had ordered all things so wisely and mercifully for the in- troduction of the truth into our land ! But opposition ...
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Page 364 - Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which, but an hour ago, Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness. And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 164 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 57 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
Page 57 - A sure and safe one, though thy master miss'd it. Mark but my fall, and that that ruin'd me. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition : By that sin fell the angels...
Page 353 - To overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder ; devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never...
Page 272 - Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Page 360 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow...
Page 157 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust!
Page 267 - 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, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 293 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest ; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway : It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice.