The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical, ecclesiastical & literary miscellany, Volume 251853 |
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... object of our own ; but taking one year from so many during which the Duke was among us , we shall strive to point out by the events of that period , what were those powers of mind , and efforts of moral strength , which so distin ...
... object of our own ; but taking one year from so many during which the Duke was among us , we shall strive to point out by the events of that period , what were those powers of mind , and efforts of moral strength , which so distin ...
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... object in view . He had a wonderful power of testing the real value of any clamour that was about him . When he saw substance and reality in it , he took it into consideration , but if not , his contempt for it was very near the point ...
... object in view . He had a wonderful power of testing the real value of any clamour that was about him . When he saw substance and reality in it , he took it into consideration , but if not , his contempt for it was very near the point ...
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... object one step further . He was ready to ascribe every credit to the individual valour of the British troops , but he must lament the absence of the art of that great man , who could prevent a retreat from being ruinous , and rendered ...
... object one step further . He was ready to ascribe every credit to the individual valour of the British troops , but he must lament the absence of the art of that great man , who could prevent a retreat from being ruinous , and rendered ...
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... object . ' He was a foreigner , ill - supported by his own government , and holding power under that of Portugal by a precarious tenure ; he was vehemently opposed by the local authorities , the ministers , and by the nobility of that ...
... object . ' He was a foreigner , ill - supported by his own government , and holding power under that of Portugal by a precarious tenure ; he was vehemently opposed by the local authorities , the ministers , and by the nobility of that ...
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... object would warrant . An army defending its own country may be compelled to encounter any risks , but when the im- mediate object was only to protect our allies , it is obvious that the forces of England ought never to lose sight of ...
... object would warrant . An army defending its own country may be compelled to encounter any risks , but when the im- mediate object was only to protect our allies , it is obvious that the forces of England ought never to lose sight of ...
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Page 321 - Alas ! — how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love ! Hearts that the world in vain had tried, And sorrow but more closely tied ; That stood the storm, when waves were rough, Yet in a sunny hour fall off, Like ships that have gone down at sea, When heaven was all tranquillity...
Page 391 - O, what a noble mind is here o'erthrown! The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword; The expectancy and rose of the fair state, The glass of fashion and the mould of form, The observed of all observers, quite, quite down!
Page 109 - Such we are in the sight of God the Father, as is the very Son of God himself. Let it be counted folly, or frenzy, or fury, whatsoever, it is our comfort and our wisdom ; we care for no knowledge in the world but this, that man hath sinned and God hath suffered ; that God hath made himself the son of man, and that men are made the righteousness of God.
Page 356 - IT is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
Page 382 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 343 - Conybeare and Howson. — The Life and Epistles of Saint Paul : Comprising a complete Biography of the Apostle, and a Translation of his Epistles inserted in Chronological Order. By the Rev. WJ CONYBEARE, MA; and the Rev. JS HOWSON MA Second Edition, revised and corrected; with several Maps and Woodcuts, and 4 Plates.
Page 382 - IT is the first mild day of March : Each minute sweeter than before The redbreast sings from the tall larch That stands beside our door. There is a blessing in the air, Which seems a sense, of joy to yield To the bare trees, and mountains bare, And grass in the green Held.
Page 324 - For mine is the lay that lightly floats, And mine are the murmuring, dying notes, That fall as soft as snow on the sea, And melt in the heart as instantly...
Page 315 - I SAW from the beach, when the morning was shining, A bark o'er the waters move gloriously on ; I came when the sun o'er that beach was declining, The bark was still there, but the waters were gone.
Page 57 - Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.