The National Magazine, 1. köideAbel Stevens, James Floy Carlton & Phillips, 1852 |
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... body of assistants went for the elements . They were brought , carefully vailed , accompa- nied by several pictures , followed by a procession . The bishop , whose miter had in the mean time been removed by an assistant , took them ...
... body of assistants went for the elements . They were brought , carefully vailed , accompa- nied by several pictures , followed by a procession . The bishop , whose miter had in the mean time been removed by an assistant , took them ...
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... body , ' lifted it at the same time above his head for the congregation to worship . The ceremony for the wine was similar . The whole was performed privately , with the back of the officiator toward the congregation , and not a word or ...
... body , ' lifted it at the same time above his head for the congregation to worship . The ceremony for the wine was similar . The whole was performed privately , with the back of the officiator toward the congregation , and not a word or ...
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... body from which they were detached was then marching up the pass that led to his village ; the fears he had heard the old and timid express would be realized ; and the plans of the others , which he had heard so much talked of , would ...
... body from which they were detached was then marching up the pass that led to his village ; the fears he had heard the old and timid express would be realized ; and the plans of the others , which he had heard so much talked of , would ...
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... body altogether . When next he appeared before his friends , he was there- fore a totally different being . His talk was now of books and of their contents . It is true that he knew little more about most of them than what could have ...
... body altogether . When next he appeared before his friends , he was there- fore a totally different being . His talk was now of books and of their contents . It is true that he knew little more about most of them than what could have ...
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... body of Yezidis approaches . Many women , too , from the neighboring villages , the unmarried excepted , come to the festival ; after feasting , they extinguish the lights , and never speak again till sun- rise . They hold the Christian ...
... body of Yezidis approaches . Many women , too , from the neighboring villages , the unmarried excepted , come to the festival ; after feasting , they extinguish the lights , and never speak again till sun- rise . They hold the Christian ...
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Page 253 - For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night. Thou earnest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
Page 111 - Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, Therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, And I will turn thee back by the way by which thou earnest.
Page 112 - And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand : and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Page 112 - And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud ! for he is a god ; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked...
Page 494 - Sir, she had read the old romances, and had got into her head the fantastical notion that a woman of spirit should use her lover like a dog. So, sir, at first she told me that I rode too fast, and she could not keep up with me ; and, when I rode a little slower, she passed me, and complained that I lagged behind. I was not to be made the slave of caprice ; and I resolved to begin as I meant to end. I therefore pushed on briskly, till I was fairly out of her sight. The road lay between two hedges,...
Page 112 - For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
Page 28 - And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD ; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
Page 51 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 471 - The Lord bless you, and keep you. The Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious unto you. The Lord lift up his countenance upon you, and give you peace, both now and evermore.
Page 99 - The poor folk flocked from far and near ; The great barn was full as it could hold Of women and children, and young and old. Then when he saw it could hold no more Bishop Hatto he made fast the door ; And while for mercy on Christ they call, He set fire to the barn and burnt them all. " I' faith, 'tis an excellent bonfire ! " quoth he, " And the country is greatly obliged to me, For ridding it in these times forlorn, Of rats, that only consume the corn.