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Page 58 - When he appointed the foundations of the earth., then I was by him, as one brought up with him, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him, rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and my delights were with the sons of men.
Page 23 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Page 116 - am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God 5 beside me : I girded thee, though thou hast not known me : That they may know from the rising of the sun, and 6 from the west, that there is none beside me : I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness : I make peace. 7 and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Page 45 - In tragedy," says Schlegel — uttering thus a deep and momentous truth — " the gods themselves either come forward as the servants of destiny and mediate executors of its decrees, or approve themselves godlike only by asserting their liberty of action and entering upon the same struggles with fate which man himself has to encounter." And I believe this, that this Greek tragedy, with its godlike men and manlike gods, and heroes who had become gods by the very vastness of their humanity, was a preparation,...
Page 116 - JEHOVAH, that is my name; And my glory will I not give to another, Nor my praise to the graven images. 9 The former predictions, lo! they are come to pass; And new events I now declare: Before they spring forth, I make them known unto you.
Page 92 - says Kimbe. " Not much to signify," replies Thormod. As Kimbe saw that Thormod had a gold ring on his arm, he said, " Thou art certainly a king's man. Give me thy gold ring, and I will hide thee. The bonders will kill thee if thou fallest in their way." Thormod says, "Take the ring if thou canst get it: I have lost that which is more worth.
Page 10 - ... home of the people of England and the most venerated fabric of the English Church — is not so much its glory as the seat of the coronations or as the sepulchre of the kings ; not so much its school, or its monastery, or its chapter, or its sanctuary, as the fact that it is the resting-place of famous Englishmen, from every rank and creed and every form of mind and genius.
Page 115 - Nor cause his voice to be heard in the streets. The bruised reed he shall not break, And the smoking flax he shall not quench. He shall publish justice, and establish it. His force shall not be abated, nor broken, Until he has firmly seated justice in the earth, And the distant nations shall wait for his Law. Thus saith the God, even Jehovah, Who created the heavens, and stretched them out ; Who spread abroad the earth, and its produce, I, Jehovah, have called thee for a righteous end, And I will...
Page 94 - In a stone pot she had stirred together leeks and other herbs, and boiled them, and gave the wounded men of it to eat, by which she discovered if the wounds had penetrated into the belly ; for if the wound had gone so deep, it would smell of leek.
Page 116 - I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron...