The Cross and the Crescent as Standards in War: Their Origin, Progress, and the Abuses of the Cross as Devised and Enforced by the Bishops of Rome |
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... fact that the grandeur , variety , and beauty of the phy- sical universe , celestial and terrestrial , have impressed man as an objective being in all his generations , and , by stimulating and rousing his subjective powers , have made ...
... fact that the grandeur , variety , and beauty of the phy- sical universe , celestial and terrestrial , have impressed man as an objective being in all his generations , and , by stimulating and rousing his subjective powers , have made ...
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... facts standing at this day prominent in every country of the world . Before the Christian era the normal condition of heathen nations was war and slavery ; and the condition of Christendom in the middle * A Mid . N. Dream . + Merchant ...
... facts standing at this day prominent in every country of the world . Before the Christian era the normal condition of heathen nations was war and slavery ; and the condition of Christendom in the middle * A Mid . N. Dream . + Merchant ...
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... fact or circumstance which may serve to illustrate our proposition . The inhabitants of Great Britain are accustomed to boast of a dynastic revolution in the year 1689 as the era of their civil and religious liberties ; but between that ...
... fact or circumstance which may serve to illustrate our proposition . The inhabitants of Great Britain are accustomed to boast of a dynastic revolution in the year 1689 as the era of their civil and religious liberties ; but between that ...
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... fact of those banners of " white " and " red " colours having been carried by the houses of York and Lancaster ; but ... facts , from Thierry's " History of the Norman Conquest of England , " to show , that in all the convul- sions of ...
... fact of those banners of " white " and " red " colours having been carried by the houses of York and Lancaster ; but ... facts , from Thierry's " History of the Norman Conquest of England , " to show , that in all the convul- sions of ...
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... fact , in the expres- sion- " they took him down from the tree , and laid him in a sepulchre . " * But among the Jews themselves , hanging on a tree , and not crucifixion , was the mode of punishment . It was under the Roman law that ...
... fact , in the expres- sion- " they took him down from the tree , and laid him in a sepulchre . " * But among the Jews themselves , hanging on a tree , and not crucifixion , was the mode of punishment . It was under the Roman law that ...
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Page 4 - Why, look you now, how unworthy a thing you make of me ! You would play upon me ; you would seem to know my stops ; you would pluck out the heart of my mystery ; you would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass : and there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ ; yet cannot you make it speak. 'Sblood, do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe ? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.
Page 267 - And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man's work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear...
Page 267 - For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries...
Page 284 - Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, And turneth the shadow of death into the morning, And maketh the day dark with night: That calleth for the waters of the sea, And poureth them out upon the face of the earth : The Lord is his name: That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, So that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
Page 227 - To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious, ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
Page 285 - He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered ? Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.
Page 4 - The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation, and a name. Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy ; Or, in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear ! Hip.
Page 222 - And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship ; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.
Page 220 - And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am?
Page 268 - Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed: feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind ; neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.