The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical, ecclesiastical & literary miscellany, Volume 171849 |
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... answer the questions of a restless , undisciplined spirit . As a general rule , those powers which enable their possessor to understand character and motives , to follow the complex workings of society , and to portray all these with ...
... answer the questions of a restless , undisciplined spirit . As a general rule , those powers which enable their possessor to understand character and motives , to follow the complex workings of society , and to portray all these with ...
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... answers they elicit ; and they must be taken very much at random . Nina , the dreaming , half- alive , beautiful daughter of the President , thus interrogates the stern Edla , her elder sister : - 66 " Clouds gather over my soul and ...
... answers they elicit ; and they must be taken very much at random . Nina , the dreaming , half- alive , beautiful daughter of the President , thus interrogates the stern Edla , her elder sister : - 66 " Clouds gather over my soul and ...
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... answers , with disgust , - 666 No , I will not write , but I wish to- -live ! I have sometimes dreamt that I could live . " 999 The reader will be glad to hear that towards the end of the volume he accomplishes this dream , when at his ...
... answers , with disgust , - 666 No , I will not write , but I wish to- -live ! I have sometimes dreamt that I could live . " 999 The reader will be glad to hear that towards the end of the volume he accomplishes this dream , when at his ...
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... answered , None will love you as I do , Adelaide ; can " happiness be increased when the bands of love are sundered ? can any one understand you as I do ? could angels give you more bliss than I ? O Adelaide , have you learnt to ...
... answered , None will love you as I do , Adelaide ; can " happiness be increased when the bands of love are sundered ? can any one understand you as I do ? could angels give you more bliss than I ? O Adelaide , have you learnt to ...
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... answer dealt truly and honestly by me . You answer me as an ordinary woman dismisses an ordi- nary man . Foolish reasons ! petty considerations ! how can Edla con- descend to use them ! ' You are old and ugly ! ' Very well , Edla , I ...
... answer dealt truly and honestly by me . You answer me as an ordinary woman dismisses an ordi- nary man . Foolish reasons ! petty considerations ! how can Edla con- descend to use them ! ' You are old and ugly ! ' Very well , Edla , I ...
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Page 165 - So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 292 - Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: 8 Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet.
Page 165 - Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe. Remember thee! Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records...
Page 185 - The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy. I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem. I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor : and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Page 151 - And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
Page 197 - Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.
Page 197 - The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah ; all they from Sheba shall come : they shall bring gold and incense ; and they shall show forth the praises of the LORD.
Page 371 - If the labours of Men of science should ever create any material revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive...
Page 158 - They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword : they wandered about in sheep-skins, and goat-skins ; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; 38 (Of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Page 175 - em: Take that of me, my friend, who have the power To seal the accuser's lips. Get thee glass eyes ; And, like a scurvy politician, seem TO see the things thou dost not.