The North British Review, Volume 14W. P. Kennedy, 1851 |
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... meeting annually , assembled only thirty - five times , after the first convention held in 1559 , and of these thirty - five seven were the so - called Synods of the Desert ; a name illustrative of their history , seeing that the fatal ...
... meeting annually , assembled only thirty - five times , after the first convention held in 1559 , and of these thirty - five seven were the so - called Synods of the Desert ; a name illustrative of their history , seeing that the fatal ...
Page 129
... meeting was held in which the law of Germinal was treated as abolished , and when it was determined to elect , by uni- versal suffrage of the adherents to the Augsburg Confession , an Assembly for the purpose of elaborating a new ...
... meeting was held in which the law of Germinal was treated as abolished , and when it was determined to elect , by uni- versal suffrage of the adherents to the Augsburg Confession , an Assembly for the purpose of elaborating a new ...
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... meeting , " as " beyond the provisions of the legis- lation affecting the Protestant Churches , " ( that is to say , of the law of Germinal , the exercise of which is thus distinctly vindicated , ) as " having no official character ...
... meeting , " as " beyond the provisions of the legis- lation affecting the Protestant Churches , " ( that is to say , of the law of Germinal , the exercise of which is thus distinctly vindicated , ) as " having no official character ...
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... meetings . In 1582 five of themt determined to have meetings of their own , enlivened by good suppers and jocular compositions . Not long after Leonardo Salviati joined the others , " Sicchè fu sesto tra cotanto senno . " He it was who ...
... meetings . In 1582 five of themt determined to have meetings of their own , enlivened by good suppers and jocular compositions . Not long after Leonardo Salviati joined the others , " Sicchè fu sesto tra cotanto senno . " He it was who ...
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Page 323 - Neither do men put new wine into old bottles : else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish : but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
Page 505 - Behold, I stand at the door, and knock : if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.
Page 507 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fallen asleep, I heard a voice, 'Believe no more,' And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep ; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd,
Page 451 - The name of the first is Pison : that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold ; and the gold of that land is good : there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
Page 356 - No more fatigue, no more distress ; Nor sin nor hell shall reach the place ; No groans to mingle with the songs Which warble from immortal tongues.
Page 483 - Come then, pure hands, and bear the head That sleeps or wears the mask of sleep, And come, whatever loves to weep, And hear the ritual of the dead. Ah yet, ev'n yet, if this might be, I, falling on his faithful heart, Would breathing thro...
Page 482 - O well for the fisherman's boy, That he shouts with his sister at play ! O well for the sailor lad, That he sings in his boat on the bay ! And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a...
Page 422 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 510 - Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace : Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul, While the stars burn, the moons increase, And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet ; Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.
Page 357 - But sacred, high, eternal noon ! 5 0 long-expected day, begin ! Dawn on these realms of woe and sin ; Fain would we leave this weary road, And sleep in death, to rest with God.