Journal of the British Archaeological Association, Volume 11

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British Archaeological Association., 1855 - Archaeology
 

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Page 205 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
Page 241 - And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the Lord our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.
Page 231 - Let me have a shirt on more than ordinary,' said the King, ' by reason the season is so sharp as probably may make me shake, which some observers will imagine proceeds from fear. I would have no such imputation. I fear not Death ! Death is not terrible to me. I bless my God I am prepared.
Page 150 - What slow gradations in the scale of mind! Yet mark in each these mystic wonders wrought ; Oh mark the sleepless energies of thought ! The...
Page 234 - The hair was thick at the back part of the head, and, in appearance, nearly black. A portion of it, which has since been cleaned and dried, is of a beautiful dark brown colour.
Page 50 - Columba, to preach the word of God to the provinces of the northern Picts, who are separated from the southern parts by steep and rugged mountains...
Page 181 - They present the simplest and sublimest monument which any generation could raise over the bodies of their progenitors ; calculated for almost endless duration, and speaking; a language more impressive than the most studied epitaph upon Parian marble.
Page 20 - Command the children of Israel, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead: 3 Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.
Page 27 - A priest, robed with surplice and stole, went with the cross to the house of the doomed leper. The minister of the church began the necessary ceremonies, by exhorting him to suffer, with a patient and penitent spirit, the incurable plague with which God had stricken him. He then sprinkled the unfortunate leper with holy water, and afterwards conducted him to the church, the usual burial services being sung during their march thither. In the church, the ordinary habiliments of the leper were removed;...
Page 118 - Adgefrin,'|" stayed there with them thirtysix days, fully occupied in catechising and baptizing; during which days, from morning till night, he did nothing else but instruct the people resorting from all villages and places, in Christ's saving word...

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