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... Thou sleep'st , Eliza , in thy early bed , Fearless henceforth of noontide's sultry hour ; The freshness of the dewy morn is fled , Aye fled from both - young maiden and young flower . By thy loved dust , thy sire's shrunk form is ...
... Thou sleep'st , Eliza , in thy early bed , Fearless henceforth of noontide's sultry hour ; The freshness of the dewy morn is fled , Aye fled from both - young maiden and young flower . By thy loved dust , thy sire's shrunk form is ...
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... thou send a dream of thee , To glad us in the night , Soon shall the shades of darkness flee , Before its cheering light . " Lighten our darkness , " gracious Lord , When forth at day we go , Teach us the doctrines of thy word , To ...
... thou send a dream of thee , To glad us in the night , Soon shall the shades of darkness flee , Before its cheering light . " Lighten our darkness , " gracious Lord , When forth at day we go , Teach us the doctrines of thy word , To ...
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... thou perish here ? " Thy pious father lies asleep , Among his children , all but thee , - Thy mother hath not ceased to weep Her daughter's face to see , - And thou must leave thy sheltered home , To die , ere youth's best years be told ...
... thou perish here ? " Thy pious father lies asleep , Among his children , all but thee , - Thy mother hath not ceased to weep Her daughter's face to see , - And thou must leave thy sheltered home , To die , ere youth's best years be told ...
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... Thou weepest - Yes ! our home is fair ! Come , we'll return ! the hind refrains To sow , when nothing springs to reap ; We will return to blither plains , Of corn , and trees , and sheep ; There's pestilence around us now , And winter ...
... Thou weepest - Yes ! our home is fair ! Come , we'll return ! the hind refrains To sow , when nothing springs to reap ; We will return to blither plains , Of corn , and trees , and sheep ; There's pestilence around us now , And winter ...
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... Thou described it as the stern region , from which comfort , and the common necessaries of life , seemed to be utterly excluded . The houses are hovels , rude constructions of mud and stone , where cleanliness , and fresh air , and ...
... Thou described it as the stern region , from which comfort , and the common necessaries of life , seemed to be utterly excluded . The houses are hovels , rude constructions of mud and stone , where cleanliness , and fresh air , and ...
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Page 178 - The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
Page 142 - Peter answered, and said unto him, Though all men shall be offended because of thee, yet will I never be offended.
Page 178 - But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs: But one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water.
Page 178 - Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. 42 There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews' preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
Page 178 - And there came also Nicodemus, (which at the first came to Jesus by night,) and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight.
Page 178 - Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
Page 178 - Blood and Water. And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true : and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe. For these things were done that the Scripture should be fulfilled : A bone of Him shall not be broken. And again, another Scripture saith : They shall look on Him Whom they pierced.
Page 178 - And after this Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave.
Page 178 - Then came the soldiers, and brake the legs of the first, and of the other which was crucified with him. 33 But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs...
Page 14 - t appointed to consider what Measures ought to be adopted with regard to the NATIVE INHABITANTS of Countries where BRITISH SETTLEMENTS are made, and to the neighbouring Tribes, in order to secure to them the due observance of Justice and the protection of their Rights ; to promote the spread of Civilization among them, and to lead them to the peaceful and voluntary reception of the Christian Religion...