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... hair and a skin of " dazzling whiteness . " Her arms and hands were beautiful . Her face was habitually refined and spirituelle in expression , and was capable of a marvellous power of concentrated feeling . She had thin colorless lips ...
... hair and a skin of " dazzling whiteness . " Her arms and hands were beautiful . Her face was habitually refined and spirituelle in expression , and was capable of a marvellous power of concentrated feeling . She had thin colorless lips ...
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... hair and lifted eye , " even when without her skull and her vase of ointment . We learn to know St. Francis by his brown habit and shaven crown and wasted ardent fea- tures : but how do we distinguish him from St. Anthony or St ...
... hair and lifted eye , " even when without her skull and her vase of ointment . We learn to know St. Francis by his brown habit and shaven crown and wasted ardent fea- tures : but how do we distinguish him from St. Anthony or St ...
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... hair , who once spoke comfort to the soul of the fallen sinner , - that Sebastian , arrow - pierced , whose upward ardent glance spoke of courage and hope to the tyrant - ridden serf , that poor tortured slave , to whose aid St. Mark ...
... hair , who once spoke comfort to the soul of the fallen sinner , - that Sebastian , arrow - pierced , whose upward ardent glance spoke of courage and hope to the tyrant - ridden serf , that poor tortured slave , to whose aid St. Mark ...
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... hair and small wings under the chin , which the more they resemble nature in color , feature , and detail , the more absurd they become , the original meaning being wholly lost or perverted . In painting , where a glory of angels is ...
... hair and small wings under the chin , which the more they resemble nature in color , feature , and detail , the more absurd they become , the original meaning being wholly lost or perverted . In painting , where a glory of angels is ...
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... hair and face and limbs of glowing red , and with white dra- peries . Vasari mentions an Adoration of the Magi by Liberale of Verona , in which a group of angels , all of a red color , stand as a celestial guard round the Virgin and her ...
... hair and face and limbs of glowing red , and with white dra- peries . Vasari mentions an Adoration of the Magi by Liberale of Verona , in which a group of angels , all of a red color , stand as a celestial guard round the Virgin and her ...
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Page 302 - Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
Page 246 - This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
Page 49 - Above it stood the Seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
Page 171 - Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
Page 171 - WHEN the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place : and suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues, like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them : and they were all filled with the HOLY GHOST ; and began to speak with other tongues, as the SPIRIT gave them utterance.
Page 380 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
Page 353 - And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, and stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
Page 158 - Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?
Page 38 - O ! th' exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe...
Page 59 - And the ass saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.