Rosamond: Or, A Narrative of the Captivity and Sufferings of an American Female Under the Popish Priests, in the Island of Cuba, with a Full Disclosure of Their Manners and Customs |
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... taken the wings of audacity , and transported him into the blackest , foulest regions of libidinous excess ! -A blank in the fac - simile , marks the absence of what , in the original , would raise a blush on immodesty herself . We have ...
... taken the wings of audacity , and transported him into the blackest , foulest regions of libidinous excess ! -A blank in the fac - simile , marks the absence of what , in the original , would raise a blush on immodesty herself . We have ...
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... taken into consideration , the truth of this Narrative cannot be doubted . The authoress is a sincere , hum- ble , and pious convert , declining in health , and , apparently , sink- ing into the grave . She appears to have a well ...
... taken into consideration , the truth of this Narrative cannot be doubted . The authoress is a sincere , hum- ble , and pious convert , declining in health , and , apparently , sink- ing into the grave . She appears to have a well ...
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... taken unawares by my visit . — I shall add nothing further in this note ; but shall express myself more fully when I see you . - Accept of these presents , which I get from my dearest Nuns . - Do not forget that we are to meet to ...
... taken unawares by my visit . — I shall add nothing further in this note ; but shall express myself more fully when I see you . - Accept of these presents , which I get from my dearest Nuns . - Do not forget that we are to meet to ...
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... taken . - His punishment . - Loses her senses under the shock from Manuel's entering her room . - She recovers , and re- moves to another house . - Learns who sent the robbers to her house . - Altars of private devotion to the Saints ...
... taken . - His punishment . - Loses her senses under the shock from Manuel's entering her room . - She recovers , and re- moves to another house . - Learns who sent the robbers to her house . - Altars of private devotion to the Saints ...
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... taken sick , anointed , and baptized for death . - Description of the ceremony of her baptism . - Becomes de- ranged . The Priests are in dread of her . - The people pity and deplore her lost condition . 111 CHAPTER IX . - Rosamond ...
... taken sick , anointed , and baptized for death . - Description of the ceremony of her baptism . - Becomes de- ranged . The Priests are in dread of her . - The people pity and deplore her lost condition . 111 CHAPTER IX . - Rosamond ...
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Page 264 - Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind...
Page 265 - Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (touch not; taste not ; handle not ; which all are to perish with the using ;) after, the commandments and doctrines of men ? Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body ; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.
Page 41 - So live, that, when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 273 - But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
Page 264 - Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days : 17 Which are a shadow of things to come ; but the body is of Christ.
Page 97 - Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow : for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Page 274 - Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
Page 185 - But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
Page 174 - A dust dug from the bowels of the earth, Which, being cast into the fire, came out A shining thing that fools admired, and called A god ; and in devout and humble plight Before it kneeled, the greater to the less ; And on its altar sacrificed ease, peace, Truth, faith, integrity ; good conscience, friends, Love, charity, benevolence, and all The sweet and tender sympathies of life...
Page 131 - This people draweth nigh unto Me with their mouth, and honoreth Me with their lips ; but their heart is far from Me.