Cooper's Works: The HeidenmauerJames G. Gregory (successor to W.A. Townsend), 1859 - American fiction |
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Page xi
... never to need them again , and who , of necessity , are removed from most of the responsibilities and affinities of a more permanent intercourse , exhibits the se.fishness of our nature in its least attractive form . Policy may suggest ...
... never to need them again , and who , of necessity , are removed from most of the responsibilities and affinities of a more permanent intercourse , exhibits the se.fishness of our nature in its least attractive form . Policy may suggest ...
Page xii
... never unseasonable . Disregarding hints , which appeared more suggested by hu- manity than the love of gain , our usual hour for eating was named , and , by way of changing the subject , I asked , — " Did I not see some ruins , on the ...
... never unseasonable . Disregarding hints , which appeared more suggested by hu- manity than the love of gain , our usual hour for eating was named , and , by way of changing the subject , I asked , — " Did I not see some ruins , on the ...
Page xvii
... never - failing solacer of monastic se- clusion , several edifices apparently appropriated to the dormi- tories , and some vestiges of the cloisters . There is also a giddy tower , of an ecclesiastical form , that sufficiently serves to ...
... never - failing solacer of monastic se- clusion , several edifices apparently appropriated to the dormi- tories , and some vestiges of the cloisters . There is also a giddy tower , of an ecclesiastical form , that sufficiently serves to ...
Page xix
... never with more signal success than in the bargain in question . Completely deceived by the artifices of the men of God , the father of sin lent himself to the project with so much zeal , that the Abbey and its appendages were completed ...
... never with more signal success than in the bargain in question . Completely deceived by the artifices of the men of God , the father of sin lent himself to the project with so much zeal , that the Abbey and its appendages were completed ...
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... of a hill - chase , that even tradition had never peopled . The spot was seemingly as retired as if it had been chosen in one of our own solitudes of the wilderness C while it was , in fact , near the centre THE HEIDENMAUER. ...
... of a hill - chase , that even tradition had never peopled . The spot was seemingly as retired as if it had been chosen in one of our own solitudes of the wilderness C while it was , in fact , near the centre THE HEIDENMAUER. ...
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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.
Page 124 - I'll be wise hereafter, And seek for grace. What a thrice-double ass Was I, to take this drunkard for a god, And worship this dull fool ! Pro.