The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 48Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1850 - Liberalism (Religion) |
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... king- doms , in self - defence she receives and disburses a revenue drawn from India , twice as large as that of the United States , and in self - defence , by colonies , by wars , by per- petual encroachments , she is banding the East ...
... king- doms , in self - defence she receives and disburses a revenue drawn from India , twice as large as that of the United States , and in self - defence , by colonies , by wars , by per- petual encroachments , she is banding the East ...
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... king of Cabul , and to set up an in- trusive monarch of Afghanistan . The means which have enabled the company to un- dertake such vast enterprises , and to support such vast armies , are also of Indian origin . They have come , not ...
... king of Cabul , and to set up an in- trusive monarch of Afghanistan . The means which have enabled the company to un- dertake such vast enterprises , and to support such vast armies , are also of Indian origin . They have come , not ...
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... king and consort , of Hebrew seer and maiden , and of Chaldee magician , grow into expressive portraits under his hand . The visible grandeur of God the Judge , over against the pre- sumptuous sins of man , approaches its completeness ...
... king and consort , of Hebrew seer and maiden , and of Chaldee magician , grow into expressive portraits under his hand . The visible grandeur of God the Judge , over against the pre- sumptuous sins of man , approaches its completeness ...
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... king , only not so rich . This element of disproportion lies at the bottom of most of the humorous literature of ... kings and ambassa- dors , but does not always adapt itself with ease and flexibility to the common purposes of every ...
... king , only not so rich . This element of disproportion lies at the bottom of most of the humorous literature of ... kings and ambassa- dors , but does not always adapt itself with ease and flexibility to the common purposes of every ...
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... king by giving up Naples , Sardinia , Milan , the Netherlands , Sici- ly , Minorca , and ( perhaps hardest of all ) the rock of Gibraltar , which has never since been plucked from the paw of the British lion . Spain , stripped of so ...
... king by giving up Naples , Sardinia , Milan , the Netherlands , Sici- ly , Minorca , and ( perhaps hardest of all ) the rock of Gibraltar , which has never since been plucked from the paw of the British lion . Spain , stripped of so ...
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Page 369 - And his low head and crest, just one sharp ear bent back For my voice, and the other pricked out on his track, And one eye's black intelligence — ever that glance O'er its white edge at me, his own master, askance; And the thick heavy spume-flakes, which aye and anon His fierce lips shook upwards in galloping on. By Hasselt, Dirck groaned; and cried Joris, "Stay spur! Your Roos galloped bravely, the fault's not in her; "We'll remember at Aix...
Page 369 - Good speed!" cried the watch, as the gate-bolts undrew; "Speed!" echoed the wall to us galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast.
Page 369 - Aix" — for one heard the quick wheeze Of her chest, saw the stretched neck and staggering knees, And sunk tail, and horrible heave of the flank, As down on her haunches she shuddered and sank.
Page 369 - Yet there is time !' At Aerschot, up leaped of a sudden the sun, And against him the cattle stood black every one, To stare thro' the mist at us galloping past, And I saw my stout galloper, Roland, at last, With resolute shoulders, each butting away The haze, as some bluff river headland its spray...
Page 403 - I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool : his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
Page 135 - Fair laughs the Morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded Vessel goes : Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm : Regardless of the sweeping Whirlwind's sway, That hush'd in grim repose expects his evening prey.
Page 155 - Cherbury gives an interesting account of the education of a highly-born youth at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century.
Page 50 - RISE, said the Master, come unto the feast : — She heard the call, and rose with willing feet ; But thinking it not otherwise than meet For such a bidding to put on her best, She is gone from us for a few short hours Into her bridal -closet, there to wait For the unfolding of the palace -gate, That gives her entrance to the blissful bowers.
Page 245 - Going, therefore, teach ye all nations : baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And behold I am with you all days even to the consummation of the world.
Page 363 - the close wood screen Plunged and replunged his weapon at a venture, Feeling for guilty thee and me: then broke The thunder like a whole sea overhead — Seb.