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Сторінка 3
A man dying of burning thirst would give his most precious possessions for a
glass of water , for which under other circumstances he would refuse to pay any
price at all . Now what is the end , the destination , of the gifts offered in the
temple ?
A man dying of burning thirst would give his most precious possessions for a
glass of water , for which under other circumstances he would refuse to pay any
price at all . Now what is the end , the destination , of the gifts offered in the
temple ?
Сторінка 39
... soothing perhaps his fretting conscience by offering to Heaven , as a
penitential litany , that same petition which Naaman the Syrian offered to the
prophet Elisha as a reason for a personal dispensation . heathen , forbids their
demolition ; he ...
... soothing perhaps his fretting conscience by offering to Heaven , as a
penitential litany , that same petition which Naaman the Syrian offered to the
prophet Elisha as a reason for a personal dispensation . heathen , forbids their
demolition ; he ...
Сторінка 48
... he subdues the leopard nature to Kailyal ' s hallowed influence : " A charm was
on the leopard when he came Within the circle of that mystic glade ; Submiss he
crouched before the heavenly maid , And offered to her touch his speckled side ...
... he subdues the leopard nature to Kailyal ' s hallowed influence : " A charm was
on the leopard when he came Within the circle of that mystic glade ; Submiss he
crouched before the heavenly maid , And offered to her touch his speckled side ...
Сторінка 52
... taught English , and in a great measure polished out of his natural barbarity ,
but who , at the first chance that offered , “ mixed in a kind of transport with his
countrymen , ” and “ brutalised ” with them in their habit and manners , as of yore .
... taught English , and in a great measure polished out of his natural barbarity ,
but who , at the first chance that offered , “ mixed in a kind of transport with his
countrymen , ” and “ brutalised ” with them in their habit and manners , as of yore .
Сторінка 83
The explanation offered is , that he viewed life in general , and therefore that
particular affection of life which we call sickness , as a state of oscillation and
perpetual change , between which and the fluctuating sympathies of hope and
fear ...
The explanation offered is , that he viewed life in general , and therefore that
particular affection of life which we call sickness , as a state of oscillation and
perpetual change , between which and the fluctuating sympathies of hope and
fear ...
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Сторінка 173 - Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Сторінка 289 - The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
Сторінка 244 - Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo The means of weakness and debility; Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly: let me go with you; I'll do the service of a younger man In all your business and necessities.
Сторінка 264 - She put her hand to the nail, And her right hand to the workman's hammer; And with the hammer she smote Sisera, She smote off his head, When she had pierced and stricken through his temples. At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: At her feet he bowed, he fell: Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.
Сторінка 155 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth ; And constancy lives in realms above ; And life is thorny ; and youth is vain ; And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain.
Сторінка 113 - No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.
Сторінка 203 - Invest me in my motley ; give me leave To speak my mind, and I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of the infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
Сторінка 203 - This is some fellow, Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness ; and constrains the garb Quite from his nature : ,he cannot flatter, he ! — An honest mind and plain, — he must speak truth ! An they will take it, so ; if not, he's plain.
Сторінка 110 - His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Сторінка 145 - Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.