The Heidenmauer; Or, The Benedictines: A Legend of the Rhine, Volumes 1-2Lea & Blanchard, 1841 |
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... father of sin lent himself to the project with so much zeal , that the Abbey and its appendages were completed in a time incredibly short ; a circumstance that his employers took good care to turn to account , after their own fashion ...
... father of sin lent himself to the project with so much zeal , that the Abbey and its appendages were completed in a time incredibly short ; a circumstance that his employers took good care to turn to account , after their own fashion ...
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... Father Arnolph himself , and all within the month : what more need a man do , to be in favor with the Brothers ? " " I could wish to know if thou ever entertainest Father Arnolph with the history of thy visits to the pastures of the ...
... Father Arnolph himself , and all within the month : what more need a man do , to be in favor with the Brothers ? " " I could wish to know if thou ever entertainest Father Arnolph with the history of thy visits to the pastures of the ...
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... Father himself , to work such a miracle , as to make back of mine acquainted with the lash . " " Simply because the introduction hath long since had place . " " That is thy interpretation of the matter , Master Berchthold , and I wish ...
... Father himself , to work such a miracle , as to make back of mine acquainted with the lash . " " Simply because the introduction hath long since had place . " " That is thy interpretation of the matter , Master Berchthold , and I wish ...
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... father had often wielded in battle , and which needed all the vigor of the muscular arm of the son , to flourish with a due observance of the required positions and attitudes . Fire - arms were of too much value and of too im- perfect ...
... father had often wielded in battle , and which needed all the vigor of the muscular arm of the son , to flourish with a due observance of the required positions and attitudes . Fire - arms were of too much value and of too im- perfect ...
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... father , I have all the hair that time and infirmities have left me . But is it thought , in thy beneficed and warlike abbey , that the advice of one who has lived long enough to know and to lament his own errors , can injure the less ...
... father , I have all the hair that time and infirmities have left me . But is it thought , in thy beneficed and warlike abbey , that the advice of one who has lived long enough to know and to lament his own errors , can injure the less ...
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The Heidenmauer, Or the Benedictines: A Legend of the Rhine ..., Volumes 1-2 James Fenimore Cooper No preview available - 2018 |
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Abbé Abbey Abbot of Limburg altar Anchorite answered art thou aught baron Benedictine better Bonifacius brother brotherhood burghers Burgomaster castle chapel character child choir church companion Count Emich Count of Hartenburg Count of Leiningen countenance cow-herd Deurckheim discourse Dost thou doubt duty Einsiedlen faith Father Arnolph Father Johan Father Siegfried favor feeling forester Gottlob hamlet hath heart Heaven Heidelberg Heidenmauer Heinrich Frey heresy hermit Herr Count Herr Emich holy Abbot honor Ilse Jaegerthal Knight of Rhodes less listened look Lord Count Lord Emich Lottchen manner Master Berchthold means ment Meta mind monk mother mountain nature never noble opinions Palatinate penitent pilgrims pious prayers prelate princely Prior reverence Rhine Ritterstein Saint Saint Gall scarce shrine soul speak thee thine Thou art thou hast Thou knowest thou wilt thought tion town truth Ulrike Venloo walls wish worship wouldst young Berchthold youth
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Page 80 - He who the sword of heaven will bear, Should be as holy as severe ; Pattern in himself to know, Grace to stand, and virtue go ; More nor less to others paying, Than by self-offences weighing.
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Page 138 - In a strange land Such things, however trivial, reach the heart. And through the heart the head, clearing away The narrow notions that grew up at home, And in their place grafting good will to all— ROGERS.