Narrative of an excursion to the mountains of Piemont, and researches among the Vaudois, or Waldenses1826 - 295 pages |
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... Cross the mountain on a sledge - Description of the grand route over Mount Cenis - Attack of the French upon Mount Cenis - Hospice -Plain of St. Nicholas - Murat - Traineaus - Mountain prospects - View of Italy from the Alps - Hannibal ...
... Cross the mountain on a sledge - Description of the grand route over Mount Cenis - Attack of the French upon Mount Cenis - Hospice -Plain of St. Nicholas - Murat - Traineaus - Mountain prospects - View of Italy from the Alps - Hannibal ...
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... cross , with an image , whose features are fright- fully distorted , surrounded with all the implements that are supposed to have been used at the crucifixion , and the whole carved in petty detail , and presenting a combination A ...
... cross , with an image , whose features are fright- fully distorted , surrounded with all the implements that are supposed to have been used at the crucifixion , and the whole carved in petty detail , and presenting a combination A ...
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... cross road which took us through a scene that amply compensated for the fatigue of a ramble of several hours . It led to a green lane , bordered on each side by some of those pretty little enclosures of corn and meadow land , which are ...
... cross road which took us through a scene that amply compensated for the fatigue of a ramble of several hours . It led to a green lane , bordered on each side by some of those pretty little enclosures of corn and meadow land , which are ...
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... cross , and the chapel in the centre thus Beds . Beds . ALTAR . Beds . Beds . Among other excellent institutions at Lyons , I was much interested by that of the Veterinary School . In En- gland , much as the breed of horses is ...
... cross , and the chapel in the centre thus Beds . Beds . ALTAR . Beds . Beds . Among other excellent institutions at Lyons , I was much interested by that of the Veterinary School . In En- gland , much as the breed of horses is ...
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... Cross the mountain on a sledge -Description of the grand route over Mount Cenis - Attack of the French upon Mount Cenis - Hospice - Plain of St. Nicholas -Murat Traineaus- Mountain prospects - View of Italy from the Alps - Hannibal ...
... Cross the mountain on a sledge -Description of the grand route over Mount Cenis - Attack of the French upon Mount Cenis - Hospice - Plain of St. Nicholas -Murat Traineaus- Mountain prospects - View of Italy from the Alps - Hannibal ...
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Alpine Alps ancient Angrogna Answ APPENDIX army Arnaud atque Bert Bishop Bobbio character Christ Christian clergy Clusone commanded Cottian Alps Count Wratislaw Cromwell doctrine Duke of Savoy edict enemy England faith favour French hath Henri Arnaud holy honour hundred inhabitants King of France King of Sardinia late Leger letter Lord Lyons majesty ment ministers Morland Mount Cenis mountains never obliged occasion parish passed pastor Pelice pension Perosa persecution persons Peter Waldo Peyrani Pianezza Piemontese Pignerol Pinerolo Pomaretto poor Popish Prali prayer present prince Protestant qu'il received religion road rock Roman Catholic Rora royal highness San Giovanni San Martino scenery Second Edition seen shew snow spot subjects suffered thing three valleys tion took Torre torrent troops Turin vale Vallées valley of Luzerna valleys of Piemont Vaudois Vertu vestra Victor Amadeus village Villaro Waldenses Waldensian church
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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.