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... rich as age and elaborate carving can make it , from its pointed top to its substantial base . Regard the massy buttres- ses , and that goodly tower where unnumbered niches are filled with the effigies of saints , mitred bishops ...
... rich as age and elaborate carving can make it , from its pointed top to its substantial base . Regard the massy buttres- ses , and that goodly tower where unnumbered niches are filled with the effigies of saints , mitred bishops ...
Page 13
... rich in cobwebs and in carved work of the sculptor's chisel , looks a different place to what it did when its clustered pilasters and groined arches were lighted up with lamps hanging from the roof . There are no hooded friars now ...
... rich in cobwebs and in carved work of the sculptor's chisel , looks a different place to what it did when its clustered pilasters and groined arches were lighted up with lamps hanging from the roof . There are no hooded friars now ...
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... rich : cease from thine own wisdom . Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not ? for riches certainly make themselves wings ; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven , " Prov . xxiii . 4 , 5 . " What is a man profited if he shall ...
... rich : cease from thine own wisdom . Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not ? for riches certainly make themselves wings ; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven , " Prov . xxiii . 4 , 5 . " What is a man profited if he shall ...
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... rich had ground the faces of the poor ; misera- ble multitudes , unjustly accused , had stretched their fettered limbs in gloomy dungeons ; and countless throngs of oppressed fellow - men , with agonizing groans , had perished in ...
... rich had ground the faces of the poor ; misera- ble multitudes , unjustly accused , had stretched their fettered limbs in gloomy dungeons ; and countless throngs of oppressed fellow - men , with agonizing groans , had perished in ...
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... rich by their losses ; and I may add also , that by their falls they learn to stand on their feet the more steadily . An hour ago , I walked abroad with a youthful companion ; the sun had sometime set , and the landscape , as the poet ...
... rich by their losses ; and I may add also , that by their falls they learn to stand on their feet the more steadily . An hour ago , I walked abroad with a youthful companion ; the sun had sometime set , and the landscape , as the poet ...
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Page 52 - They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters ; These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Page 10 - LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
Page 96 - What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also : I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.
Page 41 - For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind : but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Page 160 - For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness : all these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Page 77 - As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 179 - 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. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there.
Page 45 - OsING unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.
Page 96 - God indeed ; Without our aid he did us make : We are his flock, he doth us feed ; And for his sheep he doth us take.
Page 20 - Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.