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... hands and arms . Some , too weak to lift a piece of wood , or roll a stone towards the fire , sat down upon their dead compan- ions , and gazed with countenances unmoved upon the burn- ing logs . These livid spectres , unable to get up ...
... hands and arms . Some , too weak to lift a piece of wood , or roll a stone towards the fire , sat down upon their dead compan- ions , and gazed with countenances unmoved upon the burn- ing logs . These livid spectres , unable to get up ...
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... hands to the brink of a rivulet , and have lived nearly two months on grass and roots , and a few pieces of bread which I found among the dead bodies . At night I have lain in the carcasses of dead horses ; and with the flesh of these ...
... hands to the brink of a rivulet , and have lived nearly two months on grass and roots , and a few pieces of bread which I found among the dead bodies . At night I have lain in the carcasses of dead horses ; and with the flesh of these ...
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... hands clasped , and all bathed in tears , asked only that their lives might be spared . In another instance we saw , on one side , a son carrying a sick father , and on the other , women pour- ing the torrent of their tears upon the ...
... hands clasped , and all bathed in tears , asked only that their lives might be spared . In another instance we saw , on one side , a son carrying a sick father , and on the other , women pour- ing the torrent of their tears upon the ...
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... hand in hand with the gospel over the whole earth , and the world thus be , -what it never yet has been in a single case ... hands , and doeth his pleasure alike in the armies of heaven , and among the in- habitants of the earth . Let us ...
... hand in hand with the gospel over the whole earth , and the world thus be , -what it never yet has been in a single case ... hands , and doeth his pleasure alike in the armies of heaven , and among the in- habitants of the earth . Let us ...
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... hands to carry it on ! Is it not so entirely dependent on the will of men as to come and go just at their bidding ? Is there any physical necessity which compels them , whether they will or not , to butcher one another ? Such questions ...
... hands to carry it on ! Is it not so entirely dependent on the will of men as to come and go just at their bidding ? Is there any physical necessity which compels them , whether they will or not , to butcher one another ? Such questions ...
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Page 51 - Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath ; for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink : for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Page 49 - But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. And many nations shall come, and say, "Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his Ways, and we will walk in his paths:" for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
Page 495 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you...
Page 498 - When they which were about him saw what would follow, they said unto him, Lord, shall we smite with the sword ? 50 And one of them smote the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear.
Page 562 - And now to that same spot, in the south of Spain, are thirty similar French artisans, from a French Dumdrudge, in like manner wending; till at length after infinite effort the two parties come into actual juxtaposition; and Thirty stands fronting Thirty, each with a gun in his hand. Straightway the word
Page 503 - But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them.
Page 190 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Page 410 - Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Page 52 - Ye lust, and have not ; ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain ; ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not ; ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Page 190 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home ; taxes on the raw material, taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man ; taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite and the drug...