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Page 7 - rejection, on behalf of his Gentile converts, of the chains of Judaism. He proudly calls himself ' the Apostle of the Gentiles.' He says to the Corinthians, ' I suppose I was not a whit behind the chiefest apostle. Are they Hebrews ? So am I. Are they Israelites ? So am I. Are
Page 28 - either in their theology or their cosmology. ' From the beginning of the world,' they say, 'to the Resurrection of Christ the last day of the week was kept holy as a Sabbath;' while from the Resurrection it ' was changed into the first day of the week, which in Scripture is called the Lord's Day, and is to be continued to the
Page 46 - the good Creator to his creature, Making all earth a fane, all heav'n its dome I To hit tuned spirit the wild heather-bells Ring Sabbath knells ; The jubilate of the soaring lark Is chant of clerk ; For choir, the thrush and the gregarious linnet; The sod's
Page 198 - completed. Many of my medical friends will understand that I allude here to the late Dr. William Budd, of Bristol. The task expected of me is now accomplished, and the reader is here presented with a record, in which the verities of science are endowed with the interest of romance. 1884. THE RAINBOW AND ITS
Page 387 - a fraction were that of the Thing which realised itself, which decreed itself, on signal given by them!' Thus, a howling Marat, or a sea-green Robespierre was able to unlock forces infinitely in excess of his own. It was not the absence of scientific power and precision, so much as the overwhelming importance which
Page 480 - I' I crouched instinctively against the rock which formed a by no means perfect shelter, when a boulder buzzed past me through the air, smote the rocks below me, and with a savage hum. flew down to the lower glacier. Thus warned we swerved to an arete, and when stones fell afterwards they plunged to the right or
Page 255 - he talked so reasonably, that one cannot wish him to alter himself in any one particular. In short, I end as I began, by assuring you that the Duchess and I are quite charmed with him.' The Duke, then Master of the Ordnance, was a very competent man. He was well acquainted with the instruments
Page 491 - who had made this ascent—the first accomplished from Zermatt since the memorable one of 1865. On the eastern end of the ridge we halted to take a little food ; not that I seemed to need it. It was the remonstrance of reason rather than the consciousness of physical want that caused
Page 267 - Threw in water now a stone Well wost thou it will make anone, A little roundell as a cercle, Peraventure as broad as a conercle, And right anone thou shalt see wele, That whele cercle wil cause another whele, And that a third and so forth brother, Every cercle causing other.'—CHAUCEE'S