The Complete Works of the Late Rev. Philip Skelton ...: To which is Prefixed, Burdy's Life of the AuthorRichard Baynes, Hatchard and Son, 1824 |
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... death you are to suffer , but above all , consider the loss you will sustain in never becoming a butterfly . ' ' A butterfly ( said the other ) , what is that ? ' ' It is the most beautiful kind of bird ( said he ) , into which every ...
... death you are to suffer , but above all , consider the loss you will sustain in never becoming a butterfly . ' ' A butterfly ( said the other ) , what is that ? ' ' It is the most beautiful kind of bird ( said he ) , into which every ...
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... death , and bursting a cer- tain shell in which I had lain protected , I know not how long . I perceived I was hanging at the very same place to which I had fixed myself some time before , when a cater- pillar . The wonder of this soon ...
... death , and bursting a cer- tain shell in which I had lain protected , I know not how long . I perceived I was hanging at the very same place to which I had fixed myself some time before , when a cater- pillar . The wonder of this soon ...
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... death in the most ignominious manner , and with the sharpest tortures they could invent . The young prince , foreseeing that this would be the case , had chosen out , some time before his death , certain trusty persons , whom he vested ...
... death in the most ignominious manner , and with the sharpest tortures they could invent . The young prince , foreseeing that this would be the case , had chosen out , some time before his death , certain trusty persons , whom he vested ...
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... death of his son , the just Uranion dispersed and destroyed in a manner suitable to his absolute power , and their mon- strous crime . After this , Uranion , rightly judging that it was beneath him to interfere personally with so ...
... death of his son , the just Uranion dispersed and destroyed in a manner suitable to his absolute power , and their mon- strous crime . After this , Uranion , rightly judging that it was beneath him to interfere personally with so ...
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... death in the most public and ignominious manner . Miss Veridet was recommended by her father , a little before his death , to the justice of her cause , and the care of Mrs. Le Clerk , her nurse , who was a very good wo- man , and had ...
... death in the most public and ignominious manner . Miss Veridet was recommended by her father , a little before his death , to the justice of her cause , and the care of Mrs. Le Clerk , her nurse , who was a very good wo- man , and had ...
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Page 46 - But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and God hath 'chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty, and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen; yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are, that no flesh should glory in his presence.
Page 61 - Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition : who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself
Page 217 - Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting. Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth; they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
Page 147 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Page 29 - But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit; for the spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him ? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the spirit of God.
Page 24 - Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself ? He said. I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
Page 47 - It is not for you to know the times and the seasons, which the Father hath put in His own power.
Page 51 - And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book: But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
Page 50 - And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written.
Page 207 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.