Excelsior: Helps to Progress in Religion, Science, and Literature, Volumes 1-2James Hamilton James Nisbet and Company, Berners Street, 1854 |
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... dark rooms , in which the poorer people live , contains two or three looms , on which they weave a coarse cloth or serge for their own use , or for transport to Brittany - the Devonshire weavers being especially per- mitted by law to ...
... dark rooms , in which the poorer people live , contains two or three looms , on which they weave a coarse cloth or serge for their own use , or for transport to Brittany - the Devonshire weavers being especially per- mitted by law to ...
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... darkness ? " I pressed her hand and looked into her gentle eyes . The messages which Nature bears from God to the believing heart are never obsolete . On Saturday we started on ponies and horses to visit a rich yeoman , who lives at ...
... darkness ? " I pressed her hand and looked into her gentle eyes . The messages which Nature bears from God to the believing heart are never obsolete . On Saturday we started on ponies and horses to visit a rich yeoman , who lives at ...
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... starting - point of a Hebrew child was in advance of the theological goal of a Plato and a Seneca ; and in the mere absence of graven THE DARK WORLD'S GOSHEN . 21 images , alongside of 20 THE MOULD AND THE MEDALLION .
... starting - point of a Hebrew child was in advance of the theological goal of a Plato and a Seneca ; and in the mere absence of graven THE DARK WORLD'S GOSHEN . 21 images , alongside of 20 THE MOULD AND THE MEDALLION .
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Helps to Progress in Religion, Science, and Literature James Hamilton. THE DARK WORLD'S GOSHEN . 21 images , alongside of the intensest devotion , Palestine pre- sented an aspect all the more impressive that it was entirely unique and ...
Helps to Progress in Religion, Science, and Literature James Hamilton. THE DARK WORLD'S GOSHEN . 21 images , alongside of the intensest devotion , Palestine pre- sented an aspect all the more impressive that it was entirely unique and ...
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... dark and dreadful evil , sin . And of all men then existing , it was only from the heart of a Hebrew that such bitter cries could be wrung , 66 Have mercy upon me , O God , according to thy loving - kindness ; according to the multitude ...
... dark and dreadful evil , sin . And of all men then existing , it was only from the heart of a Hebrew that such bitter cries could be wrung , 66 Have mercy upon me , O God , according to thy loving - kindness ; according to the multitude ...
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Page 370 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 391 - Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands, saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee?
Page 83 - The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty ; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Page 402 - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jaeet ! Lastly, whereas this book, by the title it hath, calls itself The First Part of tlie General History of the World...
Page 100 - I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Page 393 - When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick : 17 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.
Page 139 - For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
Page 299 - My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him. * He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
Page 145 - He is the chief of the ways of God : he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.
Page 190 - Seeing then that we have a great High-priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.