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... death ; which the Eternal Father is ready to bestow upon us , if we earnestly and perseveringly ask it ; and which the Omnipotent Spirit works in us , by that energy whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself . Such is Mrs. M.'s ...
... death ; which the Eternal Father is ready to bestow upon us , if we earnestly and perseveringly ask it ; and which the Omnipotent Spirit works in us , by that energy whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself . Such is Mrs. M.'s ...
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... death of Innocent VIII . , and the election of Alexander VI . , are occupied by a minute detail of the conquest of Naples , by Charles VIII . king of France , -the disorder into which this expedition threw all Italy , the expul sion of ...
... death of Innocent VIII . , and the election of Alexander VI . , are occupied by a minute detail of the conquest of Naples , by Charles VIII . king of France , -the disorder into which this expedition threw all Italy , the expul sion of ...
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... death arrested , would in the profusion of its munificence , have impoverished the country which it adorned . This prince derived what hereditary talent he possessed from his mother Ulrica , who , by a capacious and highly cultivated ...
... death arrested , would in the profusion of its munificence , have impoverished the country which it adorned . This prince derived what hereditary talent he possessed from his mother Ulrica , who , by a capacious and highly cultivated ...
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... death , returns to earth , for the purpose of admonishing his son ; and for revealing the state of departed souls , in Heaven and in Hell . These communications are made through the medium of a dream or vision . But why the poem is ...
... death , returns to earth , for the purpose of admonishing his son ; and for revealing the state of departed souls , in Heaven and in Hell . These communications are made through the medium of a dream or vision . But why the poem is ...
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... death , and much more equally unintelligible , may be referred , to be as charitable as we can , to the class of sublime nonsense . The piece , considered as a whole , presents horror without grandeur , grandeur , and morality without ...
... death , and much more equally unintelligible , may be referred , to be as charitable as we can , to the class of sublime nonsense . The piece , considered as a whole , presents horror without grandeur , grandeur , and morality without ...
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Page 459 - And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Page 196 - In varying cadence, soft or strong, He swept the sounding chords along: The present scene, the future lot, His toils, his wants, were all forgot: Cold diffidence, and age's frost, In the full tide of song were lost : Each blank, in faithless memory void, The poet's glowing thought supplied ; And, while his harp responsive rung, 'Twas thus the LATEST MINSTREL sung.
Page 373 - I must work the work of him that sent me, while it is called to-day ; for the night cometh when no man can work.
Page 199 - That day of wrath, .that dreadful day, When heaven and earth shall pass away, What power shall be the sinner's stay ? How shall he meet that dreadful day ? When, shrivelling like a parched scroll, The flaming heavens together roll ; When louder yet, and yet more dread, Swells the high trump that wakes the dead ! Oh ! on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes from clay, Be THOU the trembling sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away ! HUSH'D is the harp — the Minstrel...
Page 197 - The moon on the east oriel shone, Through slender shafts of shapely stone, By foliaged tracery combined ; Thou would'st have thought some fairy's hand ' Twixt poplars straight the ozier wand, In many a freakish knot, had twined ; Then framed a spell, when the work was done, And changed the willow wreaths to stone.
Page 21 - And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
Page 207 - If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.
Page 12 - Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
Page 260 - Beauty is Nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities Where most may wonder at the workmanship; It is for homely features to keep home...
Page 230 - But without reference to accidents of the one kind or other, the general rule is, that the neutral has a right to carry on, in time of war, his accustomed trade to the utmost extent of which that accustomed trade is capable. " Very different is the case of a trade which the neutral has never possessed, which he holds by no title of use and habit in times of peace, and which, in fact, can obtain in war by no other title, than by the success of the one belligerent against the other, and at the expense...