Irenæus Letters: Second SeriesNew York Observer, 1885 - 388 pages |
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... Lady in Islands of the Sea . Modern Magdalen .... 145 ΙΟΙ 271 319 327 157 153 Northern Delegates in Southern General Assembly .. 60 4 Not the Ancient Saint ..... Old - fashioned Thanksgivings ... Old Gentleman Dead ? Is the . Old White ...
... Lady in Islands of the Sea . Modern Magdalen .... 145 ΙΟΙ 271 319 327 157 153 Northern Delegates in Southern General Assembly .. 60 4 Not the Ancient Saint ..... Old - fashioned Thanksgivings ... Old Gentleman Dead ? Is the . Old White ...
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... lady , " he was my best preacher these forty years . " His Letters were a staff to help me through every week , bringing comfort and strength every time , and shedding light upon one's way through this perplexing world . This is the way ...
... lady , " he was my best preacher these forty years . " His Letters were a staff to help me through every week , bringing comfort and strength every time , and shedding light upon one's way through this perplexing world . This is the way ...
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... ladies , to meet there at dinner , and a delightful evening was passed , rendered perhaps the more enjoyable by the storm that was raging without . Everything in this venerable house is in the elegant style of the olden time , some of ...
... ladies , to meet there at dinner , and a delightful evening was passed , rendered perhaps the more enjoyable by the storm that was raging without . Everything in this venerable house is in the elegant style of the olden time , some of ...
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... lady to soften down the sol- emn array of theological warriors . The back half of the church was chiefly filled with ladies , only here and there a man . " This was literally true ; and what followed would so tax my proverbial modesty ...
... lady to soften down the sol- emn array of theological warriors . The back half of the church was chiefly filled with ladies , only here and there a man . " This was literally true ; and what followed would so tax my proverbial modesty ...
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... ladies pressed through the jam of men and congratulated the leaders on both sides of the great drama . Dr. Prime started for the door , but was halted and surrounded at every step , so that he was fully half an hour getting out . As the ...
... ladies pressed through the jam of men and congratulated the leaders on both sides of the great drama . Dr. Prime started for the door , but was halted and surrounded at every step , so that he was fully half an hour getting out . As the ...
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Page 193 - As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Page 214 - O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
Page 145 - But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
Page 82 - And with them the Being Beauteous Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Page 27 - My boast is not, that I deduce my birth From loins enthroned, and rulers of the Earth ; But higher far my proud pretensions rise — The son of parents passed into the skies.
Page 214 - Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
Page 84 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
Page 305 - O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end...
Page 185 - Thou dost conduct thy people Through torrents of temptation : Nor will we fear, While thou art near, The fire of tribulation : The world, with sin and Satan, In vain our march opposes ; By thee we shall Break through them all, And sing the song of Moses.
Page 66 - I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead.