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Page 73 - Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Page 73 - And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men.
Page 69 - O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
Page 73 - Sirs, why do ye these things ? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein : who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.
Page 69 - And now, behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness ; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
Page 34 - Lacy, who were both actois of eminence, and, in a short time, she became eminent herself in the same profession. She acted the most spirited and fantastic parts, and spoke a prologue or epilogue with admirable address. She is said to have been kept by...
Page 14 - Lord, and went into his privy chamber, to pull off his bootes, and to shift him, and then went he to supper ; and making a very short supper, or rather a repast, returned into the chamber of presence to the Frenchmen, using them so lovingly and familiarly, that they could not commend too much ; and whilest they .were in communication and other pastimes, all their liveries were served to their chambers.
Page 12 - The day was come to the Frenchmen assigned, and they ready assembled before the hour of their appointment, wherefore the officers caused them to ride to Hanworth, a place and...
Page 12 - Lord's friends, to make preparation ; also they sent for all the expert cookes and cunnyng persons in the art of cookerie which were within London or elsewhere, that might be gotten to beautify this noble feast ; the purveiors provided, and my Lord's friends sent in such provision as one would wonder to have seen. The cookes wrought both day and night with suttleties and many crafty devices, where lacked neither gold, silver, nor other costly thing meet for their purpose...
Page 16 - Majesties again sought an asylum at this palace from a calamity still more fatal than even the plague. The apprentices of London, then, as formidable engines of a political faction, by their insurrectionary clamour drove them from their palace at Whitehall to seek temporary relief in the retirement of Hampton Court ; but the turbulent spirit of the times pursued the unfortunate sovereigns, and caused them to quit this retreat. On the 24th of August, 1647, Charles was brought here by the army, and...