Littell's Living Age, Volume 106Living Age Company Incorporated, 1870 - American periodicals |
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... possessing enor- mous wealth and influence , a pushing lady who makes up by tact for want of breeding , obscure adventurers who shake kingdoms , and a marvellous intriguing female who can do everything and rules everybody , - the reader ...
... possessing enor- mous wealth and influence , a pushing lady who makes up by tact for want of breeding , obscure adventurers who shake kingdoms , and a marvellous intriguing female who can do everything and rules everybody , - the reader ...
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... possessing enor- which shall be only equalled by its dulness . mous wealth and influence , a pushing lady And yet many of you who instruct others who makes up by tact for want of breeding , on questions of taste shall accept the book ...
... possessing enor- which shall be only equalled by its dulness . mous wealth and influence , a pushing lady And yet many of you who instruct others who makes up by tact for want of breeding , on questions of taste shall accept the book ...
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... possessed the human mind in every age , and under many forms . It was perhaps inevitable to those who could not realize the presence of Deity in this world of nature and providence . But religious beliefs cannot always be reduced to ...
... possessed the human mind in every age , and under many forms . It was perhaps inevitable to those who could not realize the presence of Deity in this world of nature and providence . But religious beliefs cannot always be reduced to ...
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... possessed suffi- cient credit to raise that sum on their joint note of hand . " I see no prospect , " said the owner ... possessing , as he thought , a turn for epic poetry . This was Francis Jeffrey ; and he was just now at the very ...
... possessed suffi- cient credit to raise that sum on their joint note of hand . " I see no prospect , " said the owner ... possessing , as he thought , a turn for epic poetry . This was Francis Jeffrey ; and he was just now at the very ...
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... possessed a brighter constel- had none of them acquired that ascendancy lation of statesmen , orators , and wits than ... possess even this . They of Christabel , " of " The Excursion , " of were the organs of the booksellers , and they ...
... possessed a brighter constel- had none of them acquired that ascendancy lation of statesmen , orators , and wits than ... possess even this . They of Christabel , " of " The Excursion , " of were the organs of the booksellers , and they ...
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Page 404 - And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood, in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor; and they served other gods.
Page 404 - Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers...
Page 405 - And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve ; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell : but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
Page 136 - And some among you held, that if the King Had seen the sight he would have sworn the vow : Not easily, seeing that the King must guard That which he rules, and is but as the hind To whom a space of land is given to plow. Who may not wander from the allotted field Before his work be done...
Page 308 - There another vision revealed to that apostle the great fact that God is no respecter of persons, but that in every nation he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted of him...
Page 350 - I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship, to devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.
Page 350 - See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah : and I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship...
Page 64 - And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Page 134 - And all at once, as there we sat, we heard A cracking and a riving of the roofs, And rending, and a blast, and overhead Thunder, and in the thunder was a cry. And in the blast there smote along the hall A beam of light seven times more clear than day: And down the long beam stole the Holy Grail All over cover'd with a luminous cloud, And none might see who bare it, and it past.
Page 457 - Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.