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Page 12 - But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Page 480 - There the wicked cease from troubling ; And there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together ; They hear not the voice of the oppressor. The small and great are there ; And the servant is free from his master.
Page 480 - LET the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, " There is a man child conceived.
Page 92 - Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed ; Teach me to die, that so I may Rise glorious at the awful day.
Page 140 - Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto ex Maria Virgine; et homo factus est. Crucifixus etiam pro nobis: sub Pontio Pilato passus, et sepultus est. Et resurrexit tertia die, secundum Scripturas.
Page 399 - For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death : for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
Page 398 - The boy's face expressed the whole tale of their situation. On that little shape had converged all the inauspiciousness and shadow which had darkened the first union of Jude, and all the accidents, mistakes, fears, errors of the last. He was their nodal point, their focus, their expression in a single term.
Page 405 - We must conform!' she said mournfully. 'All the ancient wrath of the Power above us has been vented upon us, His poor creatures, and we must submit. There is no choice. We must. It is no use fighting against God!1 'It is only against man and senseless circumstance,
Page 94 - For a moment there fell on Jude a true illumination ; that here in the stone -yard was a centre of eBbrt, as worthy as that dignified by the name of scholarly study within the noblest of the colleges.
Page 386 - And what I appear — a sick and poor man — is not the worst of me. I am in a chaos of principles, groping in the dark, acting by instinct, and not after example.