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... of Boston . It was thronged with Huguenot families , who , haggard from the sufferings of their protracted voyage , were eager to obtain refuge and repose . Scarcely more than three - score years had elapsed since 26 LEGEND OF OXFORD .
... of Boston . It was thronged with Huguenot families , who , haggard from the sufferings of their protracted voyage , were eager to obtain refuge and repose . Scarcely more than three - score years had elapsed since 26 LEGEND OF OXFORD .
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Eliza Cook, Miss Barrett. Scarcely more than three - score years had elapsed since the footsteps of the Pilgrim - Fathers first ex- plored the dreary rocks and trackless wilds of Ply- mouth . Persecution for righteousness ' sake , the ...
Eliza Cook, Miss Barrett. Scarcely more than three - score years had elapsed since the footsteps of the Pilgrim - Fathers first ex- plored the dreary rocks and trackless wilds of Ply- mouth . Persecution for righteousness ' sake , the ...
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... Scarcely was the permission accorded , ere the surrounding hills were covered with the flying fugi- tives . Their native agility , quickened by terror , regarded no obstacle of rock , thicket , or stream . The majestic being reared high ...
... Scarcely was the permission accorded , ere the surrounding hills were covered with the flying fugi- tives . Their native agility , quickened by terror , regarded no obstacle of rock , thicket , or stream . The majestic being reared high ...
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... scarcely know what to say , save that I stand here among you , look on faces that are dear , and know that God , by some myste- rious messenger , hath snatched me from destruction . " As he ceased , his friends thronged around him ...
... scarcely know what to say , save that I stand here among you , look on faces that are dear , and know that God , by some myste- rious messenger , hath snatched me from destruction . " As he ceased , his friends thronged around him ...
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... scarcely daring to breathe , he crept away from the side of his captor . Softly rising on his feet , he looked on the sleeping group . Nothing was heard , save the crackling of the fire , which blazed up high and bright in the forest ...
... scarcely daring to breathe , he crept away from the side of his captor . Softly rising on his feet , he looked on the sleeping group . Nothing was heard , save the crackling of the fire , which blazed up high and bright in the forest ...
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Page 175 - While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.
Page 192 - But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear. Logan never felt fear. He will not turn on his heel to save his life.
Page 263 - Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death.
Page 242 - WHAT are we set on earth for ? Say, to toil; Nor seek to leave thy tending of the vines For all the heat o' the day, till it declines, And death's mild curfew shall from work assoil. God did anoint thee with his odorous oil, To wrestle, not to reign; and he assigns All thy tears over, like pure crystallines, For younger fellow-workers of the soil To wear for amulets. So others shall Take patience...
Page 239 - I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, Half-taught in anguish, through the mid-night air Beat upward to God's throne in loud access Of shrieking and reproach. Full desertness In souls as countries, lieth silent-bare Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare Of the absolute Heavens.
Page 263 - Man, that is born of a woman, hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower ; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one stay. In the midst of life we are in death : of whom may we seek for succour, but of thee, O Lord, who for our sins art justly displeased...
Page 15 - And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
Page 249 - By thine Agony and bloody Sweat ; by thy Cross and Passion ; by thy precious Death and Burial ; by thy glorious Resurrection and Ascension ; and by the coming of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver us.
Page 211 - Reserving woes for age, their prime they spend.; All wretched, hopeless, in the evil. days, With sorrow to the verge of life they tend. Griev'd with the present, of the past asham'd, They live and are despis'd ; they die, nor more are nam'd.