The Retrospective Review, Volume 11Charles and Henry Baldwyn, 1825 - Books |
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... night or day ; and his enemies were not less zealous , for his beatings were without mercy , and his imprisonments with- out number . For this sort of life he had well prepared him- self , both in mind and body . His mind was nerved and ...
... night or day ; and his enemies were not less zealous , for his beatings were without mercy , and his imprisonments with- out number . For this sort of life he had well prepared him- self , both in mind and body . His mind was nerved and ...
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... night , in the 67th year of his age ; and his body was buried near Bunhill - fields , on the 16th of the said month . " the It may be allowed us before closing this article to say a few words in reference to the age in which Fox lived ...
... night , in the 67th year of his age ; and his body was buried near Bunhill - fields , on the 16th of the said month . " the It may be allowed us before closing this article to say a few words in reference to the age in which Fox lived ...
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... nights , during the lingering hours of which each variation of posture has only produced a variation of pain . All these complaints are uttered to the winds . The unrelenting auditor still " smiles and smiles , " and treats this ...
... nights , during the lingering hours of which each variation of posture has only produced a variation of pain . All these complaints are uttered to the winds . The unrelenting auditor still " smiles and smiles , " and treats this ...
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... night which witnessed the massacre of St. Bartholomew , had not Charles IX . , who duly appreciated his professional services and talents , sent for him ere the work of destruction begun , and afforded him the sanctuary of the royal ...
... night which witnessed the massacre of St. Bartholomew , had not Charles IX . , who duly appreciated his professional services and talents , sent for him ere the work of destruction begun , and afforded him the sanctuary of the royal ...
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... night with cords and ropes , by the Swissers and Lasquenets ; when , as ill - luck would have it , the two cannons being seated , a gunner , by great negligence , set on fire a great bag of gunpowder , wherewith he was burned , together ...
... night with cords and ropes , by the Swissers and Lasquenets ; when , as ill - luck would have it , the two cannons being seated , a gunner , by great negligence , set on fire a great bag of gunpowder , wherewith he was burned , together ...
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Page 210 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. "All they shall speak and say unto thee, 'Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us?' "Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
Page 212 - For now should I have lain still and been quiet: I should have slept; then had I been at rest: With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves...
Page 87 - But oh ! 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. " How oft do they their silver bowers leave, To come to...
Page 206 - The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil ; My lust shall be satisfied upon them ; 1 will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Page 206 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Page 204 - In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Page 214 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion...
Page 183 - twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one, To live in Paradise alone. How well the skilful gardener drew Of flowers and herbs this dial new! Where, from above, the milder sun Does through a fragrant zodiac run : And, as it works, th' industrious bee Computes its time as well as we.
Page 209 - He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under His feet. And He rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, He did fly upon the wings of the wind.
Page 208 - Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings : for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.