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... RELIGIOUS REVIVAL , 1904-5 " AND OTHER WORKS " WITH INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW LANG , D.D. , D.C.L. , LL.D. , D.LITT . , ETC. ETC. LONDON CHAPMAN & HALL LIMITED Printed by MORRISON & GIBB LIMITED Edinburgh Copyright 1911 By 1911 A STUDY.
... RELIGIOUS REVIVAL , 1904-5 " AND OTHER WORKS " WITH INTRODUCTION BY ANDREW LANG , D.D. , D.C.L. , LL.D. , D.LITT . , ETC. ETC. LONDON CHAPMAN & HALL LIMITED Printed by MORRISON & GIBB LIMITED Edinburgh Copyright 1911 By 1911 A STUDY.
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... London , wrote in his Diary , " I have seen , and daily , much disorder and extravagance in conceived prayers " ( unpremeditated effusions ) " which does afflict me . " I only want to shake , if I can , the belief that any of our ...
... London , wrote in his Diary , " I have seen , and daily , much disorder and extravagance in conceived prayers " ( unpremeditated effusions ) " which does afflict me . " I only want to shake , if I can , the belief that any of our ...
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... London of the plague , in 1522 . George Buchanan ( 1506-1582 ) , the famous Reformer , historian , and poet , was the best Latin scholar of his time . He was a friend of Joseph Scaliger , the celebrated litterateur . Among his pupils ...
... London of the plague , in 1522 . George Buchanan ( 1506-1582 ) , the famous Reformer , historian , and poet , was the best Latin scholar of his time . He was a friend of Joseph Scaliger , the celebrated litterateur . Among his pupils ...
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... London , he was partly educated in Aberdeen ; his mother was a Gordon of Gight and Monkshill , the possessor of rich estates in the Dee country ; her husband added her name to his own on their marriage , the boy being the only son of Mr ...
... London , he was partly educated in Aberdeen ; his mother was a Gordon of Gight and Monkshill , the possessor of rich estates in the Dee country ; her husband added her name to his own on their marriage , the boy being the only son of Mr ...
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... London printer . He published several books , but he is known to fame as the Compiler of the Concordance of the Bible . By this monumental work Cruden has placed Biblical students the world over under an obligation to him . The Rev. Dr ...
... London printer . He published several books , but he is known to fame as the Compiler of the Concordance of the Bible . By this monumental work Cruden has placed Biblical students the world over under an obligation to him . The Rev. Dr ...
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Page 96 - Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime ; Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe...
Page 148 - It may be pertinacity," said he, at length ; " but to my eye these grey hills and all this wild border country have beauties peculiar to themselves. I like the very nakedness of the land; it has something bold, and stern, and solitary about it. When I have been for some time in the rich scenery about Edinburgh, which is like ornamented garden land, I begin to wish myself back again among my own honest grey hills ; and if I did not see the heather at least once a year, / think I should die!
Page 497 - Observations on Civil Liberty, and the Justice and Policy of the War with America," in which he insisted that a free Government was one of the natural rights of civilised man.
Page 96 - Closed her bright eye, and curbed her high career : Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell, And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell ! The sun went down, nor ceased the carnage there ! Tumultuous murder shook the midnight air ; On Prague's proud arch the fires of ruin glow, His blood-dyed waters murmuring far below...
Page 96 - Tis morn; but scarce yon level sun Can pierce the war-clouds, rolling dun, Where furious Frank and fiery Hun Shout in their sulphurous canopy. The combat deepens. On, ye Brave, Who rush to glory, or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry! Few, few shall part, where many meet! The snow shall be their winding-sheet, And every turf beneath their feet Shall be a soldier's sepulchre.
Page 485 - Israel. 29And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life. ^But many who are first will be last, and many who are last will be first.
Page 24 - But then, O my friends, he said, if the soul is really immortal, What care should be taken of her, not only in respect of the portion of time which is called life, but of eternity ! And the danger of neglecting her from this point of view does indeed appear to be awful.
Page 51 - WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE? WHAT constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride, Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No, — men, high-minded men...
Page 22 - O judges, be of good cheer about death, and know of a certainty, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
Page 436 - While we are thus unconstrained in our private intercourse, a spirit of reverence pervades our public acts: we are prevented from doing wrong by respect for authority and for the laws...