Secular Annotations on Scripture TextsHodder & Stoughton, 1870 - 403 Seiten |
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... Horace Walpole , again , writes to an afflicted correspondent , - " I say no more , for time only , not words , can soften such afflictions , nor can any consolations be suggested , that do not more immediately occur to the persons ...
... Horace Walpole , again , writes to an afflicted correspondent , - " I say no more , for time only , not words , can soften such afflictions , nor can any consolations be suggested , that do not more immediately occur to the persons ...
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... Horace Walpole's similar plea , or apology , for unheeding royalty . He writes to * See on the scope of the words évμv xoрrao @ ĥvai ( St. Luke xvi . 21 ) , Analecta Theologica ( Rev. W. Trollope's ) in loc . C Miss Hannah More that he ...
... Horace Walpole's similar plea , or apology , for unheeding royalty . He writes to * See on the scope of the words évμv xoрrao @ ĥvai ( St. Luke xvi . 21 ) , Analecta Theologica ( Rev. W. Trollope's ) in loc . C Miss Hannah More that he ...
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... Horace Walpole will be found iterating and reiterating in his letters a favourite apophthegm of his - that the world is a comedy to those who think , a tragedy to those who feel . One might safely assume beforehand that a people of so ...
... Horace Walpole will be found iterating and reiterating in his letters a favourite apophthegm of his - that the world is a comedy to those who think , a tragedy to those who feel . One might safely assume beforehand that a people of so ...
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... Horace Walpole to Marshal Conway , then travelling abroad : " The honours you have re- ceived , though I have so little taste for such things myself , gave me great satisfaction ; and I do not know whether there is not more pleasure in ...
... Horace Walpole to Marshal Conway , then travelling abroad : " The honours you have re- ceived , though I have so little taste for such things myself , gave me great satisfaction ; and I do not know whether there is not more pleasure in ...
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... Horace Walpole , are pretty playthings for boys . " It is folly to vex one's self for what cannot last very long . Indeed , what can , even when one is young ? Corydon firmly believes he shall be wretched for ever if he does not marry ...
... Horace Walpole , are pretty playthings for boys . " It is folly to vex one's self for what cannot last very long . Indeed , what can , even when one is young ? Corydon firmly believes he shall be wretched for ever if he does not marry ...
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Æsop Alp Arslan answer asks Babylon beauty Belshazzar body book of Proverbs brother called Christian counsel dæmon darkness death Divine doth dream earth Emperor evil exclaims eyes fate father fear feel French gentle glory God's hand happiness Hartley Coleridge haste hath Hazael heart heaven Holy honour hope Horace Walpole hour human John judge king letters light live look Lord Madame de Sévigné mind moral nature Nebuchadnezzar never night observes once Owen Feltham passed passion Patrick Fraser Tytler Plutarch poet poor Pope John XXI pray prayer prophet proverb recognised reminds replied rest says seems sense shadow Shakspeare Shakspeare's side the Tweed sleep sorrow soul spirit strangers sweet tells Terah thee thine things thou thought threescore to-morrow toil told Trophimus truth turn unto utter vanity wrath writes
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Seite 187 - By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
Seite 2 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
Seite 5 - Grey. But then I sigh, and with a piece of Scripture, Tell them — that God bids us do good for evil ; And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends, stolen forth of holy writ ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
Seite 249 - Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
Seite 338 - Wherefore criest thou unto me ? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward : but lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it : and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.
Seite 338 - Nebuchadnezzar : and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds
Seite 218 - Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king?
Seite 341 - At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Seite 202 - tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.