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... meeting in the London streets , associated the good- ness and greatness of Alfred with the lib- erties of Magna Charta and the immemo- rial immunity of Englishmen from arbi- trary rule ; and we also read of a similar incident in the ...
... meeting in the London streets , associated the good- ness and greatness of Alfred with the lib- erties of Magna Charta and the immemo- rial immunity of Englishmen from arbi- trary rule ; and we also read of a similar incident in the ...
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... meeting houses , which still are to be found about Philadelphia . But these English yeomen and laborers , called from their fields and farms by the religious excitements of the seventeenth century , swept as it were across the Atlantic ...
... meeting houses , which still are to be found about Philadelphia . But these English yeomen and laborers , called from their fields and farms by the religious excitements of the seventeenth century , swept as it were across the Atlantic ...
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... meeting house , whither on First Days and Fifth Days the neighbors would drive , and , hitching their horses in the sheds , would sit in silence in the still interior , a Friend being moved now and then to preach or pray , and sometimes ...
... meeting house , whither on First Days and Fifth Days the neighbors would drive , and , hitching their horses in the sheds , would sit in silence in the still interior , a Friend being moved now and then to preach or pray , and sometimes ...
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... meeting . He would go off with the boys down the river in the boat ; or when he was not at work or fishing , she ... meeting when they plees , and to tel me I am no better than them- selves nor so gud , with all my going to meetings ...
... meeting . He would go off with the boys down the river in the boat ; or when he was not at work or fishing , she ... meeting when they plees , and to tel me I am no better than them- selves nor so gud , with all my going to meetings ...
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... meeting , she describes them going off to meeting with their father ; Hannah riding on her mother's mare , and Sarah behind her . Hannah was eight years old . It makes a pretty picture , the two little Quaker girls riding off with their ...
... meeting , she describes them going off to meeting with their father ; Hannah riding on her mother's mare , and Sarah behind her . Hannah was eight years old . It makes a pretty picture , the two little Quaker girls riding off with their ...
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Page 34 - Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves : for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.
Page 169 - But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour? And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
Page 333 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Page 474 - ... with pines. I only hear above his place of rest Their tender undertone, The infinite longings of a troubled breast, The voice so like his own. There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And left the tale half told. Ah ! who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clew regain ? The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower Unfinished must remain ! CHRISTMAS BELLS.
Page 230 - With what strange utterance did the loud dry wind Blow through my ear! the sky seemed not a sky Of earth — and with what motion moved the clouds!
Page 333 - ... this fight, though perhaps at some moment it may droop over our sinking heads, yet it soon again will float in the eye of Heaven, and it will be borne by the firm hands of the united people of the three kingdoms, perhaps not to an easy, but to a certain and to a not far distant victory.
Page 377 - IN that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah ; We have a strong city ; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks. Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
Page 475 - And though he will know that you cannot bear the weight of omnipotence treading upon you, yet he will not regard that, but he will crush you under his feet without mercy; he will crush out your blood, and make it fly, and it shall be sprinkled on his garments, so as to stain all his raiment.
Page 331 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Page 295 - With splendor upon splendor multiplied; And Beatrice again at Dante's side No more rebukes, but smiles her words of praise. And then the organ sounds, and unseen choirs Sing the old Latin hymns of peace and love...