Cyclopaedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices of Authors, and Selections from Their Writings. From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; with Portraits, Autographs, and Other Illustrations, Volume 1C. Scribner, 1855 - American literature |
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... Lord Bacon , and bears date at least as early as 1618. Strachey was three years in the Colony , 1610-12 . The motto from the Psalms shows his religious disposition and prescience , " This shall be written for the generation to come ...
... Lord Bacon , and bears date at least as early as 1618. Strachey was three years in the Colony , 1610-12 . The motto from the Psalms shows his religious disposition and prescience , " This shall be written for the generation to come ...
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... Lord's songs of praise according to his own will ; until he take us from hence , and wipe away all our tears , and bid us enter into our master's joy to sing eternal Hallelujahs . As specimens of this version we may give the following ...
... Lord's songs of praise according to his own will ; until he take us from hence , and wipe away all our tears , and bid us enter into our master's joy to sing eternal Hallelujahs . As specimens of this version we may give the following ...
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... Lord , and to my God cry'd : he did heare from his temple my voyce , my crye , before him came , unto his eare . 7. Then th ' earth shooke and quak't and moun- taines roots moov'd , and were stir'd at his ire . 8. Up from his nostrils ...
... Lord , and to my God cry'd : he did heare from his temple my voyce , my crye , before him came , unto his eare . 7. Then th ' earth shooke and quak't and moun- taines roots moov'd , and were stir'd at his ire . 8. Up from his nostrils ...
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... Lord ! what end or number is there of the vani- ties which mine eyes are weary of beholding ? But what seest thou ? I see men walking like the tops of trees shaken with the wind , like masts of ships reeling on the tempestuous seas ...
... Lord ! what end or number is there of the vani- ties which mine eyes are weary of beholding ? But what seest thou ? I see men walking like the tops of trees shaken with the wind , like masts of ships reeling on the tempestuous seas ...
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... Lord brayes , the more he prayes . " He reminds the Smith not to have too many irons in the fire , and that it is easier to make his anvil groan than the hearts of his hearers . A seared conscience , he says , " is like the smith's dog ...
... Lord brayes , the more he prayes . " He reminds the Smith not to have too many irons in the fire , and that it is easier to make his anvil groan than the hearts of his hearers . A seared conscience , he says , " is like the smith's dog ...
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