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... directions he had given ere quitting Cardington respecting his obsequies ; his words were as follows ; we copy them with no alteration , and with no comment : - 66 66 ( a ) As to my burial , not to exceed ten pounds . - ( b ) My tomb to ...
... directions he had given ere quitting Cardington respecting his obsequies ; his words were as follows ; we copy them with no alteration , and with no comment : - 66 66 ( a ) As to my burial , not to exceed ten pounds . - ( b ) My tomb to ...
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... direction of Moses , had been made by persons well acquainted with their form , the general outlines of which may be traced in Exodus xxv . 3-36 , -these holy in- struments and vessels having been formed 3346 years ago , - bearing ...
... direction of Moses , had been made by persons well acquainted with their form , the general outlines of which may be traced in Exodus xxv . 3-36 , -these holy in- struments and vessels having been formed 3346 years ago , - bearing ...
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... direction ; the latter replied in the affirmative . Colum- bus , yet doubtful whether it might not be some delusion of the fancy , called Roderigo Sanchery , of Segovia , and made the same inquiry . By the time the latter had ascended ...
... direction ; the latter replied in the affirmative . Colum- bus , yet doubtful whether it might not be some delusion of the fancy , called Roderigo Sanchery , of Segovia , and made the same inquiry . By the time the latter had ascended ...
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... direction , as he at one time meditated , and landed its band of adventurers on the shores of what is now Protestant America ! THE ACQUITTAL OF THE BISHOPS . ( From Macaulay's History of England . ) JAMES SECOND was born in 1633 , and ...
... direction , as he at one time meditated , and landed its band of adventurers on the shores of what is now Protestant America ! THE ACQUITTAL OF THE BISHOPS . ( From Macaulay's History of England . ) JAMES SECOND was born in 1633 , and ...
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... direction , where the existing gale was calculated to direct them on the Kremlin . These horrors were increased by the chance of explosion . There was , though as yet unknown to the French , a magazine of powder in the Kremlin ; besides ...
... direction , where the existing gale was calculated to direct them on the Kremlin . These horrors were increased by the chance of explosion . There was , though as yet unknown to the French , a magazine of powder in the Kremlin ; besides ...
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Side 235 - There is a Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast — The desert and illimitable air — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At' that far height, the cold, thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near.
Side 68 - This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
Side 267 - Not as a child shall we again behold her ; For when with raptures wild In our embraces we again enfold her, She will not be a child ; But a fair maiden, in her Father's mansion, Clothed with celestial grace ; And beautiful with all the soul's expansion Shall we behold her face. And though at times impetuous with emotion And anguish long suppressed, The swelling heart heaves moaning like the ocean, That cannot be at rest, — We will be patient, and assuage the feeling We may not wholly stay ; By...
Side 14 - And, behold, there was a great earthquake; for the angel of the Lord descended from Heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
Side 225 - The names of those who love the Lord." "And is mine one?" said Abou. "Nay, not so,
Side 272 - Who sank thy sunless pillars deep in earth? Who filled thy countenance with rosy light? Who made thee parent of perpetual streams?
Side 272 - Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam? And who commanded (and the silence came), Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest?
Side 299 - She should have died hereafter; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
Side 266 - Let us be patient ! These severe afflictions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.
Side 303 - So went to bed : where eagerly his sickness Pursued him still ; and, three nights after this, About the hour of eight, (which he himself Foretold should be his last, ) full of repentance, Continual meditations, tears, and sorrows, He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace.