Memoirs of Mr. William Veitch, and George BryssonW. Blackwood, 1825 - 540 pages |
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... persons attached to the opposite party . Biographical notices of the writers of the two last articles are prefixed to their respective nar- ratives . The object proposed in the notes was to illustrate the text , not to indulge in ...
... persons attached to the opposite party . Biographical notices of the writers of the two last articles are prefixed to their respective nar- ratives . The object proposed in the notes was to illustrate the text , not to indulge in ...
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... persons who describe scenes which they witnessed , and in which they bore a part , more or less distinguished . Agreeing in their religious and political sentiments , they were plac- ed in very different situations : one of them being ...
... persons who describe scenes which they witnessed , and in which they bore a part , more or less distinguished . Agreeing in their religious and political sentiments , they were plac- ed in very different situations : one of them being ...
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... persons who describe scenes which they witnessed , and in which they bore a part , more or less distinguished . Agreeing in their religious and political sentiments , they were placed in very different situations : one of them being an ...
... persons who describe scenes which they witnessed , and in which they bore a part , more or less distinguished . Agreeing in their religious and political sentiments , they were placed in very different situations : one of them being an ...
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... person or judicature should examine him , which , if it had been , we would have had that just deference to my Lord Chancellor's order , as not to have examined him ; but the or- der bearing only , that no person should speak with or ...
... person or judicature should examine him , which , if it had been , we would have had that just deference to my Lord Chancellor's order , as not to have examined him ; but the or- der bearing only , that no person should speak with or ...
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... persons who had manifested a malignant opposition to the religion and liberties of the nation . After the defeat of the Scotish army by Cromwell at Dunbar and Hamilton , the Court , in the end of 1650 and beginning of 1651 , put two ...
... persons who had manifested a malignant opposition to the religion and liberties of the nation . After the defeat of the Scotish army by Cromwell at Dunbar and Hamilton , the Court , in the end of 1650 and beginning of 1651 , put two ...
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Page 425 - And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
Page 2 - For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
Page 186 - Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live : and let me not be ashamed of my hope.
Page 2 - BE MERCIFUL unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
Page 2 - Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
Page 177 - ... that conscience ought not to be constrained, nor people forced in matters of mere religion. It has ever been directly contrary to our inclination, as we think it is to the interest of government, which it destroys by spoiling trade, depopulating countries and discouraging strangers; and finally, that it never obtained the end for which it was employed.
Page 349 - ... eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive.
Page 349 - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not ; I will lead them in paths that they have not known : I will make dark ness light before them, and crooked things straight.
Page 2 - O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Her '-monltes, from the hill Mi'-zar.
Page 78 - vexing thoughts," is, I think, very expressive. It has been familiar to me from my childhood ; for it is to be found in the " Psalms in Metre," used in the churches (I believe I should say kirks) of Scotland, Psal.