The Sunday at Home, Volume 38Religious Tract Society, 1891 |
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... whole career of Charles IX . , and his admira- tion for the works of this great composer , and his earnest desire to have Orlando near him in his last days , amply justify an artist in giving dramatic reality to a popular conception ...
... whole career of Charles IX . , and his admira- tion for the works of this great composer , and his earnest desire to have Orlando near him in his last days , amply justify an artist in giving dramatic reality to a popular conception ...
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... whole days and nights in the forest , careless of food or sleep , and that to such an extent that Catherine de Medicis urged his preacher Sorbin to remonstrate with him . And his mental disorder also showed itself in the spectral ...
... whole days and nights in the forest , careless of food or sleep , and that to such an extent that Catherine de Medicis urged his preacher Sorbin to remonstrate with him . And his mental disorder also showed itself in the spectral ...
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... whole day long one's life is a perfect feast ! -R . Browning . A STORY OF CONSTANCE . H. Cather THE STORM SIGNAL. drive ! It wasn't long before we came to a gate with a little cottage just inside it . A woman came out and let us in , and ...
... whole day long one's life is a perfect feast ! -R . Browning . A STORY OF CONSTANCE . H. Cather THE STORM SIGNAL. drive ! It wasn't long before we came to a gate with a little cottage just inside it . A woman came out and let us in , and ...
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... whole can be discerned as a whole . The man who fights in a decisive battle does not see the plan , it is well if he even sees his own antagonist clearly . Nor is the mere idler and follower of the camp likely to attain to greater ...
... whole can be discerned as a whole . The man who fights in a decisive battle does not see the plan , it is well if he even sees his own antagonist clearly . Nor is the mere idler and follower of the camp likely to attain to greater ...
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... whole subject of American poetry : — They tell us that our land was made for song , With its huge rivers and sky - piercing peaks , Its sea - like lakes and mighty cataracts , Its forests vast and hoar , and prairies wide . But the ...
... whole subject of American poetry : — They tell us that our land was made for song , With its huge rivers and sky - piercing peaks , Its sea - like lakes and mighty cataracts , Its forests vast and hoar , and prairies wide . But the ...
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Page 37 - Still through the cloven skies they come, With peaceful wings unfurled; And still their heavenly music floats O'er all the weary world: Above its sad and lowly plains They bend on heavenly wing, And ever o'er its Babel sounds The blessed angels sing.
Page 430 - In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed.
Page 130 - But unto the wicked God saith, "What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth? "Seeing thou hatest instruction, and easiest my words behind thee.
Page 400 - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Page 76 - Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord. Now when Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he girt his fisher's coat unto him, (for he was naked) and did cast himself into the sea.
Page 259 - Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee ; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Page 148 - In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads, them forth gently toward a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.
Page 12 - And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt...
Page 328 - Bethlehem's hill-site before me is seen, With the mountains around, and the valleys between ; There rested the shepherds of Judah, and there The song of the angels rose sweet on the air. And Bethany's palm-trees in beauty still throw Their shadows at noon on the ruins below ; But where are the sisters who hastened to greet The lowly Redeemer, and sit at His feet...
Page 209 - Solomon's porch ; and of the rest durst no man join himself to them. But the people magnified them ; and believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women ; insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.