The Metropolitan, Volume 1James Cochrane and Company, 1831 |
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Page 52
... existence , " moving as he spoke his shattered right arm , " to throw myself impenitently into the furnace that ever burneth ? Of what service is concealment now to me ? it cannot conciliate the good - will of man , it must have already ...
... existence , " moving as he spoke his shattered right arm , " to throw myself impenitently into the furnace that ever burneth ? Of what service is concealment now to me ? it cannot conciliate the good - will of man , it must have already ...
Page 65
... existence of the kingdom was perfect . We shall hereafter see how consistently these principles have been maintained . From the time of the first re - establishment of the kingdom , until 1820 , the affairs of Poland went on apparently ...
... existence of the kingdom was perfect . We shall hereafter see how consistently these principles have been maintained . From the time of the first re - establishment of the kingdom , until 1820 , the affairs of Poland went on apparently ...
Page 67
... existence was perfectly known to Alexander ; who alleged in his discourses to the Diet , and indeed on all occa- sions , that he could not re - unite , as he earnestly desired , the Polish provinces in actual union with Russia , with ...
... existence was perfectly known to Alexander ; who alleged in his discourses to the Diet , and indeed on all occa- sions , that he could not re - unite , as he earnestly desired , the Polish provinces in actual union with Russia , with ...
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... existence , that we find ourselves called upon to support a reform in the British representation . The political aspect of the times impresses every thinking mind with the knowlege that all despotisms are tending to constitutional ...
... existence , that we find ourselves called upon to support a reform in the British representation . The political aspect of the times impresses every thinking mind with the knowlege that all despotisms are tending to constitutional ...
Page 87
... My words and sayings were treasured with religious care ; and an epitaph on a dove , written at the age of six years by the hope of the family , is still in existence . I would give it here , 87 THE LIFE OF A SAILOR.-No. I. ...
... My words and sayings were treasured with religious care ; and an epitaph on a dove , written at the age of six years by the hope of the family , is still in existence . I would give it here , 87 THE LIFE OF A SAILOR.-No. I. ...
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Page 194 - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Page 196 - And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
Page 203 - He sendeth the springs into the valleys, Which run among the hills. They give drink to every beast of the fie'ld: The wild asses quench their thirst.
Page 195 - Judah is a lion's whelp ; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up : he stooped P 3 down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion ; who shall rouse him up ? — The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come : and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Page 196 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Page 201 - Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book! That they were graven with an iron pen and lead In the rock for ever!
Page 202 - And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years : few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Page 192 - And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; Ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: For I have slain a man to my wounding, And a young man to my hurt. 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Page 200 - Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin — and if not, blot me, I pray Thee, out of Thy book which Thou hast written.
Page 203 - Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth. The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from God.