Narrative of an excursion to the mountains of Piemont, and researches among the Vaudois, or Waldenses1826 - 295 pages |
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... Rora - Its secluded situation - Retrospect - Gratitude of Victor Amadeus II . - Exploits of Gianavello - Treachery of the Marquis di Pianezza - Heroic defence of Rora- Massacre at Rora - Last achievements of Gianavello- 140 162 PAGE ...
... Rora - Its secluded situation - Retrospect - Gratitude of Victor Amadeus II . - Exploits of Gianavello - Treachery of the Marquis di Pianezza - Heroic defence of Rora- Massacre at Rora - Last achievements of Gianavello- 140 162 PAGE ...
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... Rora , Victor Amadeus found a safe asylum among the very people , whom he had denounced , proscribed , and hunted down even to torture and death . Such was the fidelity and loyalty of the Vaudois ; and how did the sovereign testify his ...
... Rora , Victor Amadeus found a safe asylum among the very people , whom he had denounced , proscribed , and hunted down even to torture and death . Such was the fidelity and loyalty of the Vaudois ; and how did the sovereign testify his ...
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... Rora , was drawn in the conscription of 1821 : in vain he urged his sacred character , and pastoral duties . His remonstrances were of no use ; he was too poor to purchase a substitute , and orders of a most peremptory nature arrived ...
... Rora , was drawn in the conscription of 1821 : in vain he urged his sacred character , and pastoral duties . His remonstrances were of no use ; he was too poor to purchase a substitute , and orders of a most peremptory nature arrived ...
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... shews that God mocks and derides the designs and councils of princes when they are levelled against Jesus Christ and his church 5. " See Boyer's History of the Vaudois , p . 226 . CHAPTER IX . Rora - Its secluded situation - Retrospect.
... shews that God mocks and derides the designs and councils of princes when they are levelled against Jesus Christ and his church 5. " See Boyer's History of the Vaudois , p . 226 . CHAPTER IX . Rora - Its secluded situation - Retrospect.
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... Rora - Massacre at Rora —Last achievements of Gianavello — Sufferings of Giovanni Pal- lias , Paoli Clementi , and Gianavello's sister - Affecting tale- Traits of character - Juvenile disinterestedness - Comparative mendicity in ...
... Rora - Massacre at Rora —Last achievements of Gianavello — Sufferings of Giovanni Pal- lias , Paoli Clementi , and Gianavello's sister - Affecting tale- Traits of character - Juvenile disinterestedness - Comparative mendicity in ...
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Page lxxii - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
Page 212 - They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Page lxviii - Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious : and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
Page 238 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 147 - And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
Page 238 - O'er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway The triple tyrant ; that from these may grow A hundredfold, who, having learnt thy way, Early may fly the Babylonian woe.
Page 146 - And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Page lxxi - This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Page 134 - ... la nature semblait encore prendre plaisir à s'y mettre en opposition avec elle-même, tant on la trouvait différente en un même lieu sous divers aspects. Au levant les fleurs du printemps, au midi les fruits de l'automne, au nord les glaces de l'hiver...
Page 238 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.