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... evil thing had power to endure its presence ? " EUSEBIA . Nor is this the case where the hand of GOD has immediately impressed the sign , but where the hand of man has done so too ; as if Providence would have him , choose he or not ...
... evil thing had power to endure its presence ? " EUSEBIA . Nor is this the case where the hand of GOD has immediately impressed the sign , but where the hand of man has done so too ; as if Providence would have him , choose he or not ...
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... evil spirits by which we are surrounded should delight in making GOD'S works , which in themselves are very good , occa- sions of the misery of man , is extremely likely in itself , and consonant with all analogy . We do not remember ...
... evil spirits by which we are surrounded should delight in making GOD'S works , which in themselves are very good , occa- sions of the misery of man , is extremely likely in itself , and consonant with all analogy . We do not remember ...
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... evil thing . You may get over your dislike to it , and so you may to any other ill object ; but from the beginning of the world , allegorically and physically , it has been connected with the idea of sin . A deed of dark- ness , and ...
... evil thing . You may get over your dislike to it , and so you may to any other ill object ; but from the beginning of the world , allegorically and physically , it has been connected with the idea of sin . A deed of dark- ness , and ...
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... evil spirits . Can it be denied that solitude has always exposed those who have sought it to fiercer temptations ? And have they not , as S. Antony , obtained the greater glory in overcoming them ? Even our Blessed LORD Himself was led ...
... evil spirits . Can it be denied that solitude has always exposed those who have sought it to fiercer temptations ? And have they not , as S. Antony , obtained the greater glory in overcoming them ? Even our Blessed LORD Himself was led ...
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... evil genius of Brutus is known to all the world . But it was said also that Cassius , a staunch Epicurean , and therefore a disbeliever in all such apparitions , beheld the ghost of Cæsar , singling him out , as it were , for attack ...
... evil genius of Brutus is known to all the world . But it was said also that Cassius , a staunch Epicurean , and therefore a disbeliever in all such apparitions , beheld the ghost of Cæsar , singling him out , as it were , for attack ...
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Page 39 - Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in pieces: neither could any man tame him. 5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
Page 130 - I know my course. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil : and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, — As he is very potent with such spirits, — Abuses me to damn me: I'll have grounds More relative than this: — the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 55 - And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun •was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars ; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.
Page 55 - And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood...
Page 28 - gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long...
Page 137 - I spake again, and it answered, in a voice neither very audible nor intelligible. I was not in the least terrified, and therefore persisted until it spake again, and gave me satisfaction. But the work could not be finished at this time ; wherefore the same evening, an hour after sunset, it met me again near the same place, and after a few words on each side, it quietly vanished, and neither doth appear since, nor ever will more to any man's disturbance.
Page 168 - ... saw the figure lying across him in the same position. To add to the wonder, on putting his hand forth to touch this form, he found the uniform, in which it appeared to be dressed, dripping wet. On the entrance of one of his brother officers, to whom he called out in alarm, the apparition vanished ; but in a few months after he received the startling intelligence that on that night his brother had been drowned in the Indian seas. Of the supernatural character of this appearance, Captain Kidd himself...
Page 136 - I dare aver, that the swiftest horse in England could not have conveyed himself out of sight in that short space of time. Two things I observed in this day's appearance.
Page 55 - I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood ; and the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
Page 159 - Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.