The Visitor: Or Monthly InstructorReligious Tract Society., 1838 |
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... French monarchy were through his mother Isa- bella , the daughter of Philip IV . , and sister to three successive kings , Lewis x . , Philip v . , and Charles Iv .; the last of whom died in 1328 , and none of whom had left any sons . A ...
... French monarchy were through his mother Isa- bella , the daughter of Philip IV . , and sister to three successive kings , Lewis x . , Philip v . , and Charles Iv .; the last of whom died in 1328 , and none of whom had left any sons . A ...
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... French , in which 200 vessels of the latter were taken , and 30,000 men destroyed ; as Turner well observes , " a dreadful con- sumption of human life , that one indivi- dual king , already lord of a noble coun- try , might also have ...
... French , in which 200 vessels of the latter were taken , and 30,000 men destroyed ; as Turner well observes , " a dreadful con- sumption of human life , that one indivi- dual king , already lord of a noble coun- try , might also have ...
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... French king , but repaired to Calais with a body of knights , and sallied forth upon the party sent by Philip to be admitted into the place . He exposed himself per- sonally in the attack , and was twice un- horsed by a knight named ...
... French king , but repaired to Calais with a body of knights , and sallied forth upon the party sent by Philip to be admitted into the place . He exposed himself per- sonally in the attack , and was twice un- horsed by a knight named ...
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... French wars , and often preached before the army . We are told that " he made it his business to calm and mitigate the fierce- ness of his master's temper , when he saw him either excited by warlike_rage or improperly flushed with the ...
... French wars , and often preached before the army . We are told that " he made it his business to calm and mitigate the fierce- ness of his master's temper , when he saw him either excited by warlike_rage or improperly flushed with the ...
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... French , but several petty acts of hostility took place . When we consider that at this period acts of vio- lence were represented as the most glo- rious of all occupations , we need not be surprised to find the nobility engaged in acts ...
... French , but several petty acts of hostility took place . When we consider that at this period acts of vio- lence were represented as the most glo- rious of all occupations , we need not be surprised to find the nobility engaged in acts ...
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Page 336 - All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth : unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Page 288 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
Page 128 - To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him; neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
Page 200 - God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again, and shew me both it and his habitation: but if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.
Page 65 - For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
Page 247 - Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be •as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Page 100 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; Yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Page 81 - Mighty victor, mighty lord ! Low on his funeral couch he lies ! No pitying heart, no eye afford . A tear to grace his obsequies.
Page 129 - Ye lust, and have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot. obtain; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it.
Page 128 - It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.