The Living Age, Volume 87E. Littell & Company, 1865 |
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... lady , who was born about the middle of the seventeenth century . She was much devoted to the study of natural history , and travelled to Surinam for the purpose of making draw- ings of its animal productions ; many of these drawings ...
... lady , who was born about the middle of the seventeenth century . She was much devoted to the study of natural history , and travelled to Surinam for the purpose of making draw- ings of its animal productions ; many of these drawings ...
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... LADY MERLE . As formal and lone as the statue of stone That stood on his terraced wall , Was the noble Earl till the Lady Merle Moved mistress of heart and hall : Till he met the Lady Merle - Till he met , and loved , and wooed , and ...
... LADY MERLE . As formal and lone as the statue of stone That stood on his terraced wall , Was the noble Earl till the Lady Merle Moved mistress of heart and hall : Till he met the Lady Merle - Till he met , and loved , and wooed , and ...
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that encouragement which ladies in love tented with me as I am , -if you are satis- usually wish to receive , at any ... lady was eager in speaking on another subject . " When do you expect your cousin ? " Mrs. Askerton asked , almost as ...
that encouragement which ladies in love tented with me as I am , -if you are satis- usually wish to receive , at any ... lady was eager in speaking on another subject . " When do you expect your cousin ? " Mrs. Askerton asked , almost as ...
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... Lady Aylmer's ideas , and Lady me from my liability . Aylmer's hopes , and Lady Aylmer's fears . Clara was not going to marry Lady Alymer , and did not fear but that she could hold her own against any mother - in - law in the world when ...
... Lady Aylmer's ideas , and Lady me from my liability . Aylmer's hopes , and Lady Aylmer's fears . Clara was not going to marry Lady Alymer , and did not fear but that she could hold her own against any mother - in - law in the world when ...
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... Lady Lendrick's son by her first marriage , what relation to myself all my skill in genealogy is unable to pronounce . " We met , however , shook hands very cordially , and I had the honour to conduct Mrs. Sewell to table . I am ...
... Lady Lendrick's son by her first marriage , what relation to myself all my skill in genealogy is unable to pronounce . " We met , however , shook hands very cordially , and I had the honour to conduct Mrs. Sewell to table . I am ...
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Page 81 - And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations : and he shall rule them with a rod of iron : and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.
Page 478 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Page 243 - I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world ; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.
Page 75 - Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God, for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man. "But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
Page 478 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless.
Page 478 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Page 80 - And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
Page 242 - He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
Page 472 - Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play; For some must watch, while some must sleep; So runs the world away.
Page 242 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!