Protestant vigils; or, Evening records of a journey in Italy, in ... 1826 and 1827 |
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... Priests-- Scholars of the Seminario Romano , and Members of the Pro- paganda fide - Church of La Trinità ― The Wall of Aurelius— Gardens of the Villa Borghese - Sunset 134 CHAPTER XIV . The Borghese Gallery - The Pantheon - La Vergine ...
... Priests-- Scholars of the Seminario Romano , and Members of the Pro- paganda fide - Church of La Trinità ― The Wall of Aurelius— Gardens of the Villa Borghese - Sunset 134 CHAPTER XIV . The Borghese Gallery - The Pantheon - La Vergine ...
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... monotony . At a small place , Borgo San Domino , the Duomo has all sorts of sculptured marble stuck in its front , indicative of heathen sacrifices . I hope the Jesuits ' College here is 22 PARMA . empty ; but the priests are always.
... monotony . At a small place , Borgo San Domino , the Duomo has all sorts of sculptured marble stuck in its front , indicative of heathen sacrifices . I hope the Jesuits ' College here is 22 PARMA . empty ; but the priests are always.
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... priests are always coming out and in , and a monk begged our charity as we were quitting the hotel : the town is on the river Stirone , and the inhabitants amount to about three thousand . Crossing the Taro , we reached Castel Guelfo ...
... priests are always coming out and in , and a monk begged our charity as we were quitting the hotel : the town is on the river Stirone , and the inhabitants amount to about three thousand . Crossing the Taro , we reached Castel Guelfo ...
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... priest raised the consecrated wafer ; the people bowed be- fore it , and , at the same instant , Bandini plunged a short dagger into the breast of Giuliano . On receiving the fatal wound , he advanced a few steps and fell , when the ...
... priest raised the consecrated wafer ; the people bowed be- fore it , and , at the same instant , Bandini plunged a short dagger into the breast of Giuliano . On receiving the fatal wound , he advanced a few steps and fell , when the ...
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... priests were not equally successful with Lorenzo : they inflicted a slight wound ; he threw off his cloak , and holding it up with his left hand as a shield , with his right drew his sword , and repelled his assailants , who fled ...
... priests were not equally successful with Lorenzo : they inflicted a slight wound ; he threw off his cloak , and holding it up with his left hand as a shield , with his right drew his sword , and repelled his assailants , who fled ...
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Page 66 - He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brazen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it ; and he called it Nehushtan.
Page 215 - If I beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness ; And my heart hath been secretly enticed, Or my mouth hath kissed my hand : This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge : For I should have denied the God that is above.
Page 93 - If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God, which he hath testified of his Son.
Page 138 - and that was far away. He recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Daci.an mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday! — All this rushed with his blood. — Shall he expire And unavenged? — Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire!
Page 65 - I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book. If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book : And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city and from the things which are written in this book.
Page 167 - And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
Page 111 - That the mighty Pan Was kindly come to live with them below ; Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.
Page 216 - For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened : not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.
Page 164 - This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it ; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.
Page 138 - I see before me the gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand ; his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low ; And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims around him ; he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.