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... scene of drunkenness and debauchery . ' It is no excuse to say , that ' the old Interest men were entertained in New Col- lege , as those new Interest men were in Exeter . ' || We fear that the common enemy of Christi- anity , the ...
... scene of drunkenness and debauchery . ' It is no excuse to say , that ' the old Interest men were entertained in New Col- lege , as those new Interest men were in Exeter . ' || We fear that the common enemy of Christi- anity , the ...
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... scenes of Turkish history . The commander of the French cavalry , the Count de Nevers , had been taken in the battle . Bajazet ordered that he should be spared , and permitted him to choose twenty - four more of the Christian nobles ...
... scenes of Turkish history . The commander of the French cavalry , the Count de Nevers , had been taken in the battle . Bajazet ordered that he should be spared , and permitted him to choose twenty - four more of the Christian nobles ...
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... scene which I witnessed in the square mile comprising this earthwork , the slope beneath it and the slope above it , upon which were formed the enormous squares of the Russian infantry . The greater part of the English killed and ...
... scene which I witnessed in the square mile comprising this earthwork , the slope beneath it and the slope above it , upon which were formed the enormous squares of the Russian infantry . The greater part of the English killed and ...
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... scene of action . The French also sent a strong body of artillery and 200 Chasseurs to assist in holding the valley , while their third division was getting under arms . Sir Colin Campbell who was in com- mand of Balaklava , had at the ...
... scene of action . The French also sent a strong body of artillery and 200 Chasseurs to assist in holding the valley , while their third division was getting under arms . Sir Colin Campbell who was in com- mand of Balaklava , had at the ...
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... scene was awful . The whole camp , except to the south , seemed encircled by fire . The uproar was deafening , for both sides were firing shell , and the showers of these terrible explosives , which rained into the camp , baffle ...
... scene was awful . The whole camp , except to the south , seemed encircled by fire . The uproar was deafening , for both sides were firing shell , and the showers of these terrible explosives , which rained into the camp , baffle ...
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Page 350 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Page 350 - Comenius. in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 392 - A shadow flits before me, Not thou, but like to thee; Ah Christ, that it were possible For one short hour to see The souls we loved, that they might tell us What and where they be.
Page 391 - SEE what a lovely shell, Small and pure as a pearl, Lying close to my foot, Frail, but a work divine, Made so fairily well With delicate spire and whorl, How exquisitely minute, A miracle of design ! 2 What is it ? a learned man Could give it a clumsy name.
Page 16 - Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all.
Page 397 - Hervey,. would you know the passion You have kindled in my breast ? Trifling is the inclination That by words can be express'd. In my silence see the lover ; True love is by silence known : In my eyes you'll best discover All the power of your own.
Page 271 - Yes, I agree, he is certainly more agreeable since his return from India. His enemies might perhaps have said before (though I never did so) that he talked rather too much ; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
Page 350 - But because our understanding cannot in this body found itself but on sensible things, nor arrive so clearly to the knowledge of God and things invisible, as by orderly conning over the visible and inferior creature, the same method is necessarily to be followed in all discreet teaching.
Page 391 - Is that enchanted moan only the swell Of the long waves that roll in yonder bay? And hark the clock within, the silver knell Of twelve sweet hours that past in bridal white, And died to live, long as my pulses play ; But now by this my love has closed her sight And give,.
Page 273 - We talk of human life as a journey, but how variously is that journey performed ! There are some who come forth girt, and shod, and mantled, to walk on velvet lawns and smooth terraces, where every gale is arrested, and every beam is tempered. There are others who walk on the Alpine paths of life, against driving misery, and through stormy sorrows, over sharp afflictions ; walk with bare feet, and naked breast, jaded, mangled, and chilled.