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... appearance of an angel of light with more effect than when an unprincipled weakness masks itself as Christian humility , forbearance , and charity , It is , of course , unnecessary to declare that we have no wish to dim a single gem on ...
... appearance of an angel of light with more effect than when an unprincipled weakness masks itself as Christian humility , forbearance , and charity , It is , of course , unnecessary to declare that we have no wish to dim a single gem on ...
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... appearance they adopted . Further , men , putting off the vigour and roughness of their sex , masqueraded in the robes of women ; whilst women , divesting themselves of their proper modesty and shame , blushed not to disport them ...
... appearance they adopted . Further , men , putting off the vigour and roughness of their sex , masqueraded in the robes of women ; whilst women , divesting themselves of their proper modesty and shame , blushed not to disport them ...
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... appearance of Christ in the world . " + When it became convenient to mark the distinctive honour and purpose of either day with greater precision , it happened naturally enough that the first was adopted for the com- memoration of the ...
... appearance of Christ in the world . " + When it became convenient to mark the distinctive honour and purpose of either day with greater precision , it happened naturally enough that the first was adopted for the com- memoration of the ...
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... appearance of the star to the wise men , there is the idea of Theophany , or Manifestation of God , with reference more particularly to the events attending our Lord's bap- tism . It is , again , known as the Festum Trium Regum— the ...
... appearance of the star to the wise men , there is the idea of Theophany , or Manifestation of God , with reference more particularly to the events attending our Lord's bap- tism . It is , again , known as the Festum Trium Regum— the ...
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... appearance . " This he infers from the course of the star being from north to south , and so far contrary to that of the other heavenly bodies , whose motion is from east to west ; to the circumstances of its shining at mid - day , of ...
... appearance . " This he infers from the course of the star being from north to south , and so far contrary to that of the other heavenly bodies , whose motion is from east to west ; to the circumstances of its shining at mid - day , of ...
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agony ancient angels anniversary Apostles Ascension Ash Wednesday Augustine baptism Bernard of Clairvaux Bishop blessed blood called Canon celebration century charity Charles Wesley CHRIST is risen Christian Chrysostom Circumcision Circumcision of Christ commemoration Council Council of Elvira crown custom death disciples divine doth earth Easter Ephesus Epiphany eternal Eusebius Evangelist faith fast Father feast festival flesh forty days give glorious glory Gospel grace hath heart heaven heavenly Holy Week Homily honour human hymn Irenæus Jesus Jewish Jews John King Lent light Lord Lord's martyrdom martyrs Maundy Thursday Nativity o'er observance Paschal Passion Passover peace penitence Pentecost poem poet poetical praise prayer prophet Resurrection Rogation days sacred saints Saviour says season solemn Sonnet soul star Stephen Stephen's day Sunday tears Tertullian Thee Thine Thou throne Thy name Thy nature tion unto verses weeping whilst wise words
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Page 63 - As to the tabor's sound, To me alone there came a thought of grief: A timely utterance gave that thought relief, And I again am strong: The cataracts blow their trumpets from the steep; No more shall grief of mine the season wrong; I hear the echoes through the mountains throng, The winds come to me from the fields of sleep, And all the earth is gay; Land and sea Give themselves up to jollity...
Page 104 - The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving. No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
Page 63 - Thou little Child, yet glorious in the might Of heaven-born freedom on thy being's height, Why with such earnest pains dost thou provoke The years to bring the inevitable yoke, Thus blindly with thy blessedness at strife? Full soon thy Soul shall have her earthly freight, And custom lie upon thee with a weight, Heavy as frost, and deep almost as life!
Page 134 - Wilt Thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which was my sin, though it were done before ? Wilt Thou forgive that sin through' which I run, And do run still, though still I do deplore ? When Thou hast done, Thou hast not done, For I have more.
Page 89 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us Thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 63 - And with new joy and pride The little Actor cons another part; Filling from time to time his 'humorous stage' With all the Persons, down to palsied Age, That Life brings with her in her equipage; As if his whole vocation Were endless imitation.
Page 63 - Mighty Prophet! Seer blest! On whom those truths do rest, Which we are toiling all our lives to find, In darkness lost, the darkness of the grave; Thou, over whom thy Immortality Broods like the Day, a Master o'er a Slave, A Presence which is not to be put by...
Page 391 - O ! th' exceeding grace Of highest God that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed Angels He sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
Page 38 - Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy...
Page 105 - And sullen Moloch, fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue ; The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus and the dog Anubis, haste.