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... born in the corps , believed that the badge of the Antelope was as old as the time of Queen Elizabeth ; and that the regiment , then in the service of the States of Holland , adopted the badge owing to the Antelope being the crest of ...
... born in the corps , believed that the badge of the Antelope was as old as the time of Queen Elizabeth ; and that the regiment , then in the service of the States of Holland , adopted the badge owing to the Antelope being the crest of ...
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... born animals shall vow And sacrifice ; and with each first - born son Of woman also shall the like be done . " " And then he observes that God gave more minute directions respecting the same festival : " In all your families of Hebrew ...
... born animals shall vow And sacrifice ; and with each first - born son Of woman also shall the like be done . " " And then he observes that God gave more minute directions respecting the same festival : " In all your families of Hebrew ...
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... born in a Grotto : DR . RIMBAULT is pleased to consider this a " popular corruption of the Scrip- tural text , " and adds , " I am not aware that any attempt has been made to trace the origin of it . " He undertakes the task himself ...
... born in a Grotto : DR . RIMBAULT is pleased to consider this a " popular corruption of the Scrip- tural text , " and adds , " I am not aware that any attempt has been made to trace the origin of it . " He undertakes the task himself ...
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... born ; " with a woodcut 10 inches high by 84 inches wide , represent- ing the stable of Bethlehem ; Christ in the crib , watched by the Virgin and Joseph ; shepherds kneeling ; angels at- tending ; a man playing on the bagpipes ; a ...
... born ; " with a woodcut 10 inches high by 84 inches wide , represent- ing the stable of Bethlehem ; Christ in the crib , watched by the Virgin and Joseph ; shepherds kneeling ; angels at- tending ; a man playing on the bagpipes ; a ...
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... born in 1785 , and died June 8 , 1795 ; and his titular sovereignty lasted not quite seventeen months , his father Louis XVI . being beheaded January 21 , 1793 ( Walter Scott's Life of Napoleon , c . xiii . ) His uncle , the Count of ...
... born in 1785 , and died June 8 , 1795 ; and his titular sovereignty lasted not quite seventeen months , his father Louis XVI . being beheaded January 21 , 1793 ( Walter Scott's Life of Napoleon , c . xiii . ) His uncle , the Count of ...
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Page 380 - For the Lord hath chosen Zion ; he hath desired it for his habitation. This is my rest for ever ; here will I dwell ; for I have desired it.
Page 153 - Hence in a season of calm weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.
Page 217 - Duty, then, is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things, like that old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.
Page 34 - That the churches of England and Ireland,, as now by law established, be united into one Protestant Episcopal Church, to be called The United Church of England and Ireland; and that the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government of the said united church shall be, and shall remain in full force for ever, as the same are now by law established for the church of England ; and that the continuance and preservation of the said united church, as the established church of...
Page 448 - I'll have of perfume, vapour'd 'bout the room, To lose ourselves in; and my baths, like pits To fall into; from whence we will come forth, And roll us dry in gossamer and roses.
Page 438 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Page 432 - But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things : but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed : so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.
Page 362 - The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again...
Page 148 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 159 - Philip and Mary, by the grace of God, king and queen of England, France. Naples, Jerusalem, and Ireland ; defenders of the faith ; princes of Spain and Sicily ; archdukes of Austria ; dukes of Milan, Burgundy, and Brabant; counts of Hapsburg, Flanders, and Tyrol.