The Contemporary Review, Volume 74A. Strahan, 1898 |
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... perhaps more effeminat than the swarthy bull - fighting sons of Spain , who swarm to Cuba f a season and retire to the Peninsula after a few years toil . The Cubans have directed this struggle either actively or by secret hel handed to ...
... perhaps more effeminat than the swarthy bull - fighting sons of Spain , who swarm to Cuba f a season and retire to the Peninsula after a few years toil . The Cubans have directed this struggle either actively or by secret hel handed to ...
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... perhaps , but they are the only ones that succeed against so superior a force . In the six weeks of operations that followed , General Pando accom- plished nothing with all his mobilisation of forces , and judging from the fact that ...
... perhaps , but they are the only ones that succeed against so superior a force . In the six weeks of operations that followed , General Pando accom- plished nothing with all his mobilisation of forces , and judging from the fact that ...
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... perhaps more effeminate , than the swarthy bull - fighting sons of Spain , who swarm to Cuba for a season and retire to the Peninsula after a few years toil . These Cubans have directed this struggle either actively or by secret help ...
... perhaps more effeminate , than the swarthy bull - fighting sons of Spain , who swarm to Cuba for a season and retire to the Peninsula after a few years toil . These Cubans have directed this struggle either actively or by secret help ...
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... perhaps a crowd of low type fortune seekers , and last , but not least , a mysterious individual of gloomy aspect whose mission none understood , but who would turn out to be the official " snake in the grass " a spy from the Holy ...
... perhaps a crowd of low type fortune seekers , and last , but not least , a mysterious individual of gloomy aspect whose mission none understood , but who would turn out to be the official " snake in the grass " a spy from the Holy ...
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... perhaps at some moment it may droop over our sinking heads , yet it soon again will float in the eye of heaven , and will be borne by the firm hands of the united people of the three kingdoms , perhaps not to an easy , but to a certain ...
... perhaps at some moment it may droop over our sinking heads , yet it soon again will float in the eye of heaven , and will be borne by the firm hands of the united people of the three kingdoms , perhaps not to an easy , but to a certain ...
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Page 239 - The visible Church of Christ is a congregation of faithful men, in the which the pure Word of God is preached, and the Sacraments be duly ministered according to Christ's ordinance, in all those things that of necessity are requisite to the same.
Page 632 - ... requiring such as shall be satisfied with a general confession not to be offended with them that do use, to their further satisfying, the auricular and secret confession to the priest ; nor those also which think needful or convenient, for the quietness of their own consciences, particularly to open their sins to the priest, to be offended with them that are satisfied with their humble confession to God, and the general confession to the Church.
Page 224 - AND Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the gentiles lord it over them; and their great ones exercise authority over them.
Page 21 - You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side. The great social forces which move onwards in their might and majesty, and which the tumult of our debates does not for a moment impede or disturb...
Page 21 - Of aspect more sublime: that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened; that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on, Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul...
Page 224 - But be not ye called Rabbi, for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. And call no man your father upon the earth : for one is your Father, which is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.
Page 315 - For the Sacramental Bread and Wine remain still in their very natural substances, and therefore may not be adored ; (for that were idolatry, to be abhorred of all faithful Christians...
Page 373 - Briid's bed; and then the mistress and servants cry three times, ' Briid is come, Briid is welcome* This they do just before going to bed, and when they rise in the morning they look among the ashes, expecting to see the impression of Briid's club there ; which if they do, they reckon it a true presage of a good crop and prosperous year, and the contrary they take as an ill omen.
Page 345 - I shall be glad to be in a position to communicate to Her Majesty's Government a definite assurance that China will never alienate any territory in the provinces adjoining the Yang-tsze to any other Power, whether under lease, mortgage, or any other designation.
Page 651 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies ; — Hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.