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Page 115
... eyes , and struck off noses , daily , for his amusement . The present minister , who acted in that capacity to him , had his nose bit off , and an eye taken out , for having offended him . Many are the miserable objects still to be seen ...
... eyes , and struck off noses , daily , for his amusement . The present minister , who acted in that capacity to him , had his nose bit off , and an eye taken out , for having offended him . Many are the miserable objects still to be seen ...
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... eyes rivetted on the open- ing splendours I watched , as they rose out of the bosom of the surrounding waters , the pointed minarets , the swel- ling cupolas , and the innumerable hab- itations , which , either stretched away along the ...
... eyes rivetted on the open- ing splendours I watched , as they rose out of the bosom of the surrounding waters , the pointed minarets , the swel- ling cupolas , and the innumerable hab- itations , which , either stretched away along the ...
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... eyes on the object of his worship . It set in all its splendour ; and when its golden disk had entirely disappeared ... eye escape the spectacle of atrocious punishments , and of indescribable agonies . Here perhaps you see a wretch ...
... eyes on the object of his worship . It set in all its splendour ; and when its golden disk had entirely disappeared ... eye escape the spectacle of atrocious punishments , and of indescribable agonies . Here perhaps you see a wretch ...
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... eye , Without a cloud o'ercast ; Calm as the pure and silent deep , When winds are hush'd and waves asleep , Thou ... eyes , And palpitating bosom , ere her knight , Young Ethelrid , from holy wars returned With laurels on his crest ...
... eye , Without a cloud o'ercast ; Calm as the pure and silent deep , When winds are hush'd and waves asleep , Thou ... eyes , And palpitating bosom , ere her knight , Young Ethelrid , from holy wars returned With laurels on his crest ...
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... eyes of posterity . ' 99 GEORGE III . Among the many anecdotes of his late Majesty , with which the periodical press abounds , we have not seen the fol- lowing : -The late celebrated mathe- matical instrument maker , Mr.Ramsden , was ...
... eyes of posterity . ' 99 GEORGE III . Among the many anecdotes of his late Majesty , with which the periodical press abounds , we have not seen the fol- lowing : -The late celebrated mathe- matical instrument maker , Mr.Ramsden , was ...
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Page 318 - In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
Page 286 - Still glides the Stream, and shall for ever glide ; The Form remains, the Function never dies ; While we, the brave, the mighty, and the wise, We Men, who in our morn of youth defied The elements, must vanish ; — be it -so ! Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour ; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.
Page 569 - ... all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.
Page 362 - The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Page 556 - To sweeten the beverage a lump of sugar was laid beside each cup, and the company alternately nibbled and sipped with great decorum, until an improvement was introduced by a shrewd and economic old lady, which was to suspend a large lump directly over the teatable...
Page 346 - Mr. Wesley and I lay on the floor; he had my greatcoat for his pillow, and I had Burkitt's ' Notes on the New Testament ' for mine. After being here near three weeks, one morning about three o'clock, Mr. Wesley turned over, and, finding me awake, clapped me on the side, saying: 'Brother Nelson, let us be of good cheer; I have one whole side yet, for the skin is off but on one side.
Page 554 - In this sacred apartment no one was permitted to enter, excepting the mistress and her confidential maid, who visited it once a week, for the purpose of giving it a thorough cleaning, and putting things to rights — always taking the precaution of leaving their shoes at the door, and entering devoutly, on their stocking feet.
Page 554 - The grand parlour was the sanctum sanctorum, where the passion for cleaning was indulged without control. In this sacred apartment no one was permitted to enter, excepting the mistress and her confidential maid, who visited it once a week; for the purpose of giving it a thorough...
Page 556 - Bible, and wore pockets — ay, and that too of a goodly size, fashioned with patchwork into many curious devices, and ostentatiously worn on the outside. These, in fact, were convenient receptacles, where all good housewives carefully stored away such things as they wished to have at hand; by which means they often came to be incredibly crammed — and I remember there was a story current when I was a boy that the lady of...
Page 386 - For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you ; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.