Cooper's Works: The HeidenmauerJames G. Gregory (successor to W.A. Townsend), 1859 - American fiction |
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Page vii
... look at its beauties in its most beautiful part , and to compare them , so far as native par- tiality might permit , with the well - established claims of our -own Hudson . Quitting Cologne , its exquisite but incomplete cathedral ...
... look at its beauties in its most beautiful part , and to compare them , so far as native par- tiality might permit , with the well - established claims of our -own Hudson . Quitting Cologne , its exquisite but incomplete cathedral ...
Page xi
... mercenary schemes of another portion of the craft , who , dwelling in places of little resort , endeavor to take their revenge of fortune , by showing that they look upon every post - carriage as an especial God - THE HEIDENMAUER . хі.
... mercenary schemes of another portion of the craft , who , dwelling in places of little resort , endeavor to take their revenge of fortune , by showing that they look upon every post - carriage as an especial God - THE HEIDENMAUER . хі.
Page xiv
... look at a place which his ances- tors had built . " " It was the ruins of the castle of Leiningen , then , that I saw on the mountain , as we entered the town ? " 66 " No , mein Herr . You saw the ruins of the Abbey of Lim- burg ; those ...
... look at a place which his ances- tors had built . " " It was the ruins of the castle of Leiningen , then , that I saw on the mountain , as we entered the town ? " 66 " No , mein Herr . You saw the ruins of the Abbey of Lim- burg ; those ...
Page xvii
... look at the surrounding val- ley . Nothing could have been softer or more lovely than the near view . That sort of necessity , which induces us to cherish any stinted gift , had led the inhabitants to turn every foot of the bottom land ...
... look at the surrounding val- ley . Nothing could have been softer or more lovely than the near view . That sort of necessity , which induces us to cherish any stinted gift , had led the inhabitants to turn every foot of the bottom land ...
Page 35
... to do them an ill turn , with tongue or hungry beast . " " Look you , Berchthold , we vassals are little more than so much clear water in which our master may see his own countenance , and at need his THE HEIDENMAUER . 35.
... to do them an ill turn , with tongue or hungry beast . " " Look you , Berchthold , we vassals are little more than so much clear water in which our master may see his own countenance , and at need his THE HEIDENMAUER . 35.
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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 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 303 - 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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