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... whole history in one brief passage ! But it is more especially to the voyageurs of the Church — the men of faith and love — that I wish to direct my reader's attention : to such men as Le Caron , a Franciscan , with all the zeal and ...
... whole history in one brief passage ! But it is more especially to the voyageurs of the Church — the men of faith and love — that I wish to direct my reader's attention : to such men as Le Caron , a Franciscan , with all the zeal and ...
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... whole creed of the Church , as a mere enthusiast would have done ; for that wisdom would feed an infant with strong meats even before it had drawn its mother's milk . Neither did he preach the gospel with the sword , like the Span- iard ...
... whole creed of the Church , as a mere enthusiast would have done ; for that wisdom would feed an infant with strong meats even before it had drawn its mother's milk . Neither did he preach the gospel with the sword , like the Span- iard ...
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... whole , it had been better or worse for the cause of Christianity , had no such or- ganization ever existed ; whether her claims are groundless or well- founded , are questions foreign to our purpose . But that her polity is the most ...
... whole , it had been better or worse for the cause of Christianity , had no such or- ganization ever existed ; whether her claims are groundless or well- founded , are questions foreign to our purpose . But that her polity is the most ...
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... before LA SALLE . The whole book is a mere plagiarism . See SPARKS's ' Life of LA SALLE , ' where the vain father is summarily and justly disposed of . 1852. ] The Voyageur . 9 creature . ' And 8 [ January , The Voyageur .
... before LA SALLE . The whole book is a mere plagiarism . See SPARKS's ' Life of LA SALLE , ' where the vain father is summarily and justly disposed of . 1852. ] The Voyageur . 9 creature . ' And 8 [ January , The Voyageur .
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... whole village of Innisfield is visible . Below , the forest had been par- tially cleared , so that there was no obstruction to the view . Alice often rambled over the mountain in search of wild flowers , and to gather the twigs of the ...
... whole village of Innisfield is visible . Below , the forest had been par- tially cleared , so that there was no obstruction to the view . Alice often rambled over the mountain in search of wild flowers , and to gather the twigs of the ...
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Page 213 - I REQUIRE and charge you both, as ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that if either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in Matrimony, ye do now confess it.
Page 58 - Thus saith the Lord: I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.
Page 245 - God: 8 who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. 9 He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Page 30 - What is a man, If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and god-like reason To fust in us unus'd.
Page 269 - Now, whether it be Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple Of thinking too precisely on the event, — A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom And ever three parts coward, — I do not know Why yet I live to say "This thing's to do," Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means To do't.
Page 181 - The Western wind was wild and dank with foam, And all alone went she. The creeping tide came up along the sand, And o'er and o'er the sand, And round and round the sand, As far as eye could see; The blinding mist came down and hid the land; And never home came she.
Page 318 - Have with our needles created both one flower. Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key ; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate. So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted ; But yet a union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem : So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart, Two of the first, like coats in heraldry, Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.