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... give birth to productions of permanent interest as poetry . No living author , we believe , is more competent to appre- ciate , or has shewn himself more able to surmount these dis- advantages in treating of contemporary events , than ...
... give birth to productions of permanent interest as poetry . No living author , we believe , is more competent to appre- ciate , or has shewn himself more able to surmount these dis- advantages in treating of contemporary events , than ...
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... give an elegant plan of the Catacombs near Alex- andria , the Necropolis of the ancient Racotis , a city that was in ruins before the building of Alexandria . He spent six hours within these dark and solemn apartments , to which access ...
... give an elegant plan of the Catacombs near Alex- andria , the Necropolis of the ancient Racotis , a city that was in ruins before the building of Alexandria . He spent six hours within these dark and solemn apartments , to which access ...
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... question , were it not sufficiently answered by a reference to the New Testament . Give me an honest chronicler , ' has been the earnest desire of many an injured man , whose mind has been 42 Jones's History of the Waldenses .
... question , were it not sufficiently answered by a reference to the New Testament . Give me an honest chronicler , ' has been the earnest desire of many an injured man , whose mind has been 42 Jones's History of the Waldenses .
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... give the book the inelegant appearance of being meant to be of some use ? A number of remarks occur here and there in these brief notices , respecting , for instance , the distinctive characteristics of the more ancient and the later ...
... give the book the inelegant appearance of being meant to be of some use ? A number of remarks occur here and there in these brief notices , respecting , for instance , the distinctive characteristics of the more ancient and the later ...
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... give a more lively idea of the difference of economy between the classic times and regions and ours , as to the familiar surrounding exhi- bition of objects , than that so much beauty and sublinity could be afforded to be employed for ...
... give a more lively idea of the difference of economy between the classic times and regions and ours , as to the familiar surrounding exhi- bition of objects , than that so much beauty and sublinity could be afforded to be employed for ...
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Page 412 - Will you be ready with all faithful diligence to banish and drive away all erroneous and strange doctrines contrary to God's word...
Page 172 - IT is certain by God's word, that children which are baptized, dying before they commit actual sin, are undoubtedly saved.
Page 533 - And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 588 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 410 - City, and holding a pure faith in the unity of the Spirit and in the bond of peace...
Page 381 - Nor aught else in the liquid mirror laves Its portraiture, but some inconstant star Between one foliaged lattice twinkling fair, Or, painted bird, sleeping beneath the moon, Or gorgeous insect floating motionless, Unconscious of the day, ere yet his wings Have spread their glories to the gaze of noon.
Page 387 - Die, he or justice must; unless for him Some other, able, and as willing, pay The rigid satisfaction ; death for death.
Page 534 - And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues.
Page 359 - For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling block, and unto the Greeks foolishness; But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Page 45 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.