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... honored thus touched but the hem and outer fringe of Jehovah's vestments . And in this way , there were clues given which left none at a loss who honestly desired guidance and defense : there were obscurities and difficulties left which ...
... honored thus touched but the hem and outer fringe of Jehovah's vestments . And in this way , there were clues given which left none at a loss who honestly desired guidance and defense : there were obscurities and difficulties left which ...
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... honor , who towered higher ? What Rabbi , or Sanhedrim , or Prophet , or Sovereign , uttered a loftier claim than that which called men to honor him , the Son , even as they honored the Father ? Verily , from the man- ger to the Cross ...
... honor , who towered higher ? What Rabbi , or Sanhedrim , or Prophet , or Sovereign , uttered a loftier claim than that which called men to honor him , the Son , even as they honored the Father ? Verily , from the man- ger to the Cross ...
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... not the system , so employing its lease of domination , and so carrying out its demonstrations of vaunted superiority in knightly valor , and honor , and refinement , and courtesy , left virtually in the avenging WILLIAMS . 21.
... not the system , so employing its lease of domination , and so carrying out its demonstrations of vaunted superiority in knightly valor , and honor , and refinement , and courtesy , left virtually in the avenging WILLIAMS . 21.
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... honored instru- ments , at dates that to us seem untimely , and in modes , that , although painful and even shocking ... honor in the nation's gallery of her chief worthies , who had deserved well of the Republic . An earlier assassina ...
... honored instru- ments , at dates that to us seem untimely , and in modes , that , although painful and even shocking ... honor in the nation's gallery of her chief worthies , who had deserved well of the Republic . An earlier assassina ...
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... honored Prince of Orange , William the Taciturn , died , thus foully and suddenly , although Spain conferred patents ... honors of the church arrest the world's general judgment of the slaughter ; or stay the contagious power of the ...
... honored Prince of Orange , William the Taciturn , died , thus foully and suddenly , although Spain conferred patents ... honors of the church arrest the world's general judgment of the slaughter ; or stay the contagious power of the ...
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Page 269 - The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places : how are the mighty fallen ! Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon ; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
Page 174 - Besides, this Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels trumpet-tongued against The deep damnation of his taking-off; And pity, like a naked new-born babe, Striding the blast, or heaven's cherubim horsed Upon the sightless couriers of the air, Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.
Page 360 - I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
Page 361 - But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
Page 205 - This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle for maintaining in the world that form and substance of Government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men ; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders ; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life.
Page 248 - that his ways are not as our ways, nor his thoughts as our thoughts...
Page 344 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree; All several sins, all us'd in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty, guilty!
Page 201 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract.
Page 194 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form ; Then have I reason to be fond of grief.
Page 192 - But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.