The Living Age, Volume 269Living Age Company, 1911 |
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... present school of writers . How differently , for instance , would a story like that of Ruth , so delicately and sympathetically handled by Mrs. Gas- kell , have been treated by some of the lady ( ? ) novelists of the present day ! It ...
... present school of writers . How differently , for instance , would a story like that of Ruth , so delicately and sympathetically handled by Mrs. Gas- kell , have been treated by some of the lady ( ? ) novelists of the present day ! It ...
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... present state of things , without exag- geration or extenuation of any of its essential elements . The matter , however , possesses an- other aspect worth considering . The rights , to enforce which Russia is re- solved to proceed to ...
... present state of things , without exag- geration or extenuation of any of its essential elements . The matter , however , possesses an- other aspect worth considering . The rights , to enforce which Russia is re- solved to proceed to ...
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... present day . Our ancestors in those appalling years had the addi- tional terror that no man knew what caused the death which , black and bloody , smote millions by a breath . The assembled Faculty of Paris sol- emnly stated , after ...
... present day . Our ancestors in those appalling years had the addi- tional terror that no man knew what caused the death which , black and bloody , smote millions by a breath . The assembled Faculty of Paris sol- emnly stated , after ...
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... present paper to trace the history of this great Version and to consider its beneficent influence on the life and language of the English people . It is a curious fact , as has been pointed out that the origin of this Version should ...
... present paper to trace the history of this great Version and to consider its beneficent influence on the life and language of the English people . It is a curious fact , as has been pointed out that the origin of this Version should ...
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... present you with this Book , the most valuable thing that the world affords . Here is wisdom ; this is the royal law ; these are the lively oracles of God . Blessed is he that readeth , and they that keep the words of this Book ; that ...
... present you with this Book , the most valuable thing that the world affords . Here is wisdom ; this is the royal law ; these are the lively oracles of God . Blessed is he that readeth , and they that keep the words of this Book ; that ...
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Page 655 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 88 - BEHOLD, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.
Page 80 - And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire...
Page 724 - Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed king ; The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.
Page 306 - And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand ; and all the women went out after her, with timbrels, and with dances. And Miriam answered them, Sing ye to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously : the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.
Page 276 - said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest's ferny floor. And a bird flew up out of the turret, Above the Traveller's head: And he smote upon the door again a second time;
Page 655 - tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus. Our bodies are our gardens ; to the which our wills are gardeners : so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce ; set hyssop, and weed up thyme ; supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many; either to have it steril with idleness, or manured with industry ; why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 80 - For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand. 3 And again they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up for ever and ever.
Page 610 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer cloud, Without our special wonder...
Page 188 - Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.