The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church, Volume 1, Issues 1-12John and Charles Mozley, 1851 |
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... ' But knights and nobles never learn ! ' said Richard . ' And you think it a reason they never should ! But you are wrong , my boy , for the kings of France and Eng- D land , the counts of Provence and Paris , yes THE LITTLE DUKE . 33.
... ' But knights and nobles never learn ! ' said Richard . ' And you think it a reason they never should ! But you are wrong , my boy , for the kings of France and Eng- D land , the counts of Provence and Paris , yes THE LITTLE DUKE . 33.
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... France , then remember what I say now . I charge you on your duty to God , and to your father , that you keep up no feud , no hatred , but that rather you should deem me best revenged , when you have with heart and hand given the ...
... France , then remember what I say now . I charge you on your duty to God , and to your father , that you keep up no feud , no hatred , but that rather you should deem me best revenged , when you have with heart and hand given the ...
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... France , and Kaiser Otho of Ger- many , to take from them their vassal . They took leave of each other in all courtesy , and we embarked again . It was Duke William's pleasure to go alone in a small 106 THE MONTHLY PACKET .
... France , and Kaiser Otho of Ger- many , to take from them their vassal . They took leave of each other in all courtesy , and we embarked again . It was Duke William's pleasure to go alone in a small 106 THE MONTHLY PACKET .
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... France . For many years they gave themselves up entirely to gaiety , and displayed as much energy in the pursuit of pleasure , as they afterwards did in works of mercy for the good of others . The first check they experienced was an ...
... France . For many years they gave themselves up entirely to gaiety , and displayed as much energy in the pursuit of pleasure , as they afterwards did in works of mercy for the good of others . The first check they experienced was an ...
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... France attracted the attention even of the King Louis XIV . , who sent for him to Marly , one of the royal country seats , and gave him 50,000 francs , for the use of his hospital and poor people . The following is an account of the ...
... France attracted the attention even of the King Louis XIV . , who sent for him to Marly , one of the royal country seats , and gave him 50,000 francs , for the use of his hospital and poor people . The following is an account of the ...
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Page 419 - weeks are determined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy. Know, therefore, and understand, that from
Page 99 - to deserts. Not so thou; Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play, Time writes no wrinkles on thy azure brow— Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. ' Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed, in breeze or gale or storm Icing
Page 75 - And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying know the Lord, for they all shall know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord, for I will forgive their
Page 99 - thy watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed; nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and
Page 419 - I will set up one Shepherd over them, and He shall feed them, even my servant David; He shall feed them, and He shall be their Shepherd. ' And I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them.
Page 408 - I shall see Him, but not now ; I shall behold Him, but not nigh. There shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite all the corners of Moab.
Page 417 - eyes ! See, a long race thy spacious courts adorn ; See future sons, and daughters yet unborn, In crowding ranks on every side arise, Demanding life, impatient for the skies ! See barbarous nations at thy gates attend, Walk in thy light, and in thy temple bend ; See thy bright altars thronged with prostrate kings, And heaped with products of Sabean
Page 415 - And in soft silence shed the kindly shower ! The sick and weak, the healing plant shall aid, From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade. All crimes shall cease, and ancient fraud shall fail; Returning Justice lift aloft her scale; Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend, And white robed innocence from heaven descend.
Page 152 - Lo, the poor crieth, and the Lord heareth him, yea, and saveth him out of all his troubles. The angel of the Lord tarrieth round about them that fear Him, and delivereth them. O taste and see how gracious the Lord is; blessed is the man that
Page 99 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee. Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they ? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage; their decay Has dried up