The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church, Volume 8, Parts 43-48John and Charles Mozley, 1869 |
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... light such forms as Doré might give to prostrate spectres doing penance . The foot - path on to Hall leads through a continuance of the same diversified and well - wooded scenery we have been traversing hitherto ; but if time presses ...
... light such forms as Doré might give to prostrate spectres doing penance . The foot - path on to Hall leads through a continuance of the same diversified and well - wooded scenery we have been traversing hitherto ; but if time presses ...
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... light shining in the dark days of rebuke and blas- phemy of the French Revolution of 1790. Perhaps in no country and at no period could so many instances of religious heroism be collected , and we may feel a sort of pride in the thought ...
... light shining in the dark days of rebuke and blas- phemy of the French Revolution of 1790. Perhaps in no country and at no period could so many instances of religious heroism be collected , and we may feel a sort of pride in the thought ...
Page 75
... light of day ; brave peasants marched to fight with prayers on their lips , and hymns rose up from beside the camp night - fires . These were the great days of La Vendée ; so far the efforts of her Royalists had been successful . But it ...
... light of day ; brave peasants marched to fight with prayers on their lips , and hymns rose up from beside the camp night - fires . These were the great days of La Vendée ; so far the efforts of her Royalists had been successful . But it ...
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... light is an object . The ornamental details of these very early glass - paintings are very Greek in character . A more vigorous style of figure drawing soon began to develope itself , but representations of Divine persons formed an ...
... light is an object . The ornamental details of these very early glass - paintings are very Greek in character . A more vigorous style of figure drawing soon began to develope itself , but representations of Divine persons formed an ...
Page 87
... light to another connecting the design . The yellow stain was discovered in 1310 , and was much used , rather to the exclusion of other colours . Glass- paintings about 1350 are remarkable for the quantity of yellow they contain , as in ...
... light to another connecting the design . The yellow stain was discovered in 1310 , and was much used , rather to the exclusion of other colours . Glass- paintings about 1350 are remarkable for the quantity of yellow they contain , as in ...
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Page 156 - The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land, Thus do go about, about: Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, And thrice again, to make up nine.
Page 175 - For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father, with his angels ; and then shall he reward every man according to his works.
Page 2 - For this shall every one that is godly make his prayer unto thee, in a time when thou mayest be found : but in the great waterfloods they shall not come nigh him.
Page 388 - What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it ? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.
Page 474 - Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished the thing this day. Then went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one ! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down. And he took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit ye down here.
Page 472 - And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.
Page 524 - O pray for the peace of Jerusalem : they shall prosper that love thee. Peace be within thy walls : and plenteousness within thy palaces. For my brethren and companions' sakes : I will wish thee prosperity.
Page 109 - Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven ; which things the angels desire to look into.
Page 495 - O struggling with the darkness all the night, And visited all night by troops of stars, Or when they climb the sky, or when they sink...
Page 109 - Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see: For I tell you that many prophets and kings have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them ; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.