The Christian observer [afterw.] The Christian observer and advocate1865 |
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... known to the world . A vacancy occurred in one of the most important posts which Govern- ment has to bestow , and the retirement of Lord Cornwallis made it necessary to seek a successor for the Governor- Generalship in India . For this ...
... known to the world . A vacancy occurred in one of the most important posts which Govern- ment has to bestow , and the retirement of Lord Cornwallis made it necessary to seek a successor for the Governor- Generalship in India . For this ...
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... known in his profession , and beyond it . The warmth of his affections secured him friends . The two Grants , Mr. Inglis , Lord Calthorpe , attached themselves to him as contemporaries . Grant , Wilberforce , Thornton , and Macau- lay ...
... known in his profession , and beyond it . The warmth of his affections secured him friends . The two Grants , Mr. Inglis , Lord Calthorpe , attached themselves to him as contemporaries . Grant , Wilberforce , Thornton , and Macau- lay ...
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... known in happier days , but who had since fallen under the cloud which obscures the reason and faculties , - " That name I can neither write nor think of without great pain . It is , indeed , ' For ever loved , for ever dear ; Still ...
... known in happier days , but who had since fallen under the cloud which obscures the reason and faculties , - " That name I can neither write nor think of without great pain . It is , indeed , ' For ever loved , for ever dear ; Still ...
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... known and near , and to Clapham the throng of petitioners flocked . Clapham became intolerable . He gave up Broom- field , and fled . He moved his tent to Kensington Gore ; surely he would find rest , for that was a quiet suburb far ...
... known and near , and to Clapham the throng of petitioners flocked . Clapham became intolerable . He gave up Broom- field , and fled . He moved his tent to Kensington Gore ; surely he would find rest , for that was a quiet suburb far ...
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... known lady described some unenlightened rustics , her husband's parishioners , in the West of England . Her sweeping condemnation was thus worded ; -they were " a greedy , guzzling , grinding , grumbling , grasping , graceless , godless ...
... known lady described some unenlightened rustics , her husband's parishioners , in the West of England . Her sweeping condemnation was thus worded ; -they were " a greedy , guzzling , grinding , grumbling , grasping , graceless , godless ...
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Page 767 - But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land; but unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.
Page 119 - There are in this loud stunning tide Of human care and crime, With whom the melodies abide Of the everlasting chime ; Who carry music in their heart Through dusky lane and wrangling mart, Plying their daily task with busier feet, Because their secret souls a holy strain repeat.
Page 863 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 494 - And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service? That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.
Page 98 - In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation : in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise...
Page 713 - And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, that Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
Page 141 - And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.
Page 771 - And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it 1 wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
Page 759 - Whatever power such a being may have over me, there is one thing which he shall not do : he shall not compel me to worship him. I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures ; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.
Page 771 - And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth ; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.