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... known ; and few tourists biographer of Dandie Dinmont , of joyous who enter the vale of the Teviot neglect to memory , joined the shades , no magic sen- make the acquaintance of the sylvan Jed . tences , either in verse or prose , have ...
... known ; and few tourists biographer of Dandie Dinmont , of joyous who enter the vale of the Teviot neglect to memory , joined the shades , no magic sen- make the acquaintance of the sylvan Jed . tences , either in verse or prose , have ...
Page 23
... known to protect children in their cradles beneath the ruins . V. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the fame of St. Michel's Mount had spread all over Christendom , and as a place of pil- grimage it ranked second only to the Holy ...
... known to protect children in their cradles beneath the ruins . V. In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the fame of St. Michel's Mount had spread all over Christendom , and as a place of pil- grimage it ranked second only to the Holy ...
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... known as the Salle des Chevaliers , the place is still shown where the simple brothers made open confession of their faults , and received public admonition and fatherly direction from the good abbot , and the little pulpit still stands ...
... known as the Salle des Chevaliers , the place is still shown where the simple brothers made open confession of their faults , and received public admonition and fatherly direction from the good abbot , and the little pulpit still stands ...
Page 28
... known passage about the African Bushmen : - " Hard is the Bushman's lot - friendless , forsaken , an outcast from the world ; greatly preferring the company of the beasts of prey to that of civilised man . His gorah soothes some ...
... known passage about the African Bushmen : - " Hard is the Bushman's lot - friendless , forsaken , an outcast from the world ; greatly preferring the company of the beasts of prey to that of civilised man . His gorah soothes some ...
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... known partially , and which had puzzled her , reached her mind through her misery ; but she could not , even when she was conscious that an aspersion was cast upon her father , raise her voice and justify him . Mrs. Wyndham was not ...
... known partially , and which had puzzled her , reached her mind through her misery ; but she could not , even when she was conscious that an aspersion was cast upon her father , raise her voice and justify him . Mrs. Wyndham was not ...
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Page 201 - Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.
Page 342 - For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed ; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.
Page 341 - And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud...
Page 198 - Let the floods clap their hands, and let the hills be joyful together before the LORD : for he cometh to judge the earth. 10. With righteousness shall he judge the world: and the people with equity.
Page 342 - For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no more go over the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.
Page 18 - But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers...
Page 94 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 195 - Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes...
Page 384 - And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
Page 466 - I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Beth-lehemite. And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.