The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical, ecclesiastical & literary miscellany, Volume 291855 |
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Page 67
... possessed each of two minds , one of which is active , while the other takes its sleep . But , even if our notions were not necessarily and painfully grotesque , a well disciplined mind would at once recoil from any arbitrary ...
... possessed each of two minds , one of which is active , while the other takes its sleep . But , even if our notions were not necessarily and painfully grotesque , a well disciplined mind would at once recoil from any arbitrary ...
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... possessed very distinct and settled convictions ; and , under a sense of alarm at the impending danger , they sought to form alliance with the Christians of the West . Their king , Stephen Thomas , in A. D. 1445 , actually conformed to ...
... possessed very distinct and settled convictions ; and , under a sense of alarm at the impending danger , they sought to form alliance with the Christians of the West . Their king , Stephen Thomas , in A. D. 1445 , actually conformed to ...
Page 97
... possessing a grammar , and that all other dialects are but rude patois . One of their countrymen , who has travelled in France , the Sheik Rifaa , has been at great pains to remove this prejudice , and inform his brethren that the ...
... possessing a grammar , and that all other dialects are but rude patois . One of their countrymen , who has travelled in France , the Sheik Rifaa , has been at great pains to remove this prejudice , and inform his brethren that the ...
Page 102
... possessed votaries of nearly all these creeds . Just as , in matters of state , some tribes were under Roman domination , some under that of Persia , some alternating between the rule of the two sceptres , and some , if nominally ...
... possessed votaries of nearly all these creeds . Just as , in matters of state , some tribes were under Roman domination , some under that of Persia , some alternating between the rule of the two sceptres , and some , if nominally ...
Page 105
... possessed , so to speak , but a share of him at best , and the duration even of that share was never cer- tain and assured . Moreover , before the rise of Mahometanism , a widow was considered as a part of the heritage of her deceased ...
... possessed , so to speak , but a share of him at best , and the duration even of that share was never cer- tain and assured . Moreover , before the rise of Mahometanism , a widow was considered as a part of the heritage of her deceased ...
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Page 391 - Ye men of Israel, hear these words ; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, (which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know...
Page 388 - Now the names of the twelve apostles are these; The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; 3.
Page 123 - They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; To gods whom they knew not, To new gods that came newly up, Whom your fathers feared not.
Page 157 - I knew not whether from the good cause or the bad; darkness and lights; tempest and human faces; and at last, with the sense that all was lost, female forms, and the features that were worth all the world to me, and but a moment allowed — and clasped hands, and heart-breaking partings, and then — everlasting farewells!
Page 157 - ... issue. I, as is usual in dreams (where of necessity we make ourselves central to every movement), had the power, and yet had not the power to decide it. I had the power, if I could raise myself to will it, and yet, again, had not the power ; for the weight of twenty Atlantics was upon me, or the oppression of inexpiable guilt. ' Deeper than ever plummet sounded,
Page 122 - Round their golden houses, girdled with the gleaming world : Where they smile in secret, looking over wasted lands, Blight and famine, plague and earthquake, roaring deeps and fiery sands, Clanging fights, and flaming towns, and sinking ships, and praying hands. But they smile, they find a music centred in a doleful song Steaming up, a lamentation and an ancient tale of wrong, Like a tale of little meaning tho...
Page 121 - Let us swear an oath, and keep it with an equal mind, In the hollow Lotos-land to live and lie reclined On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
Page 383 - Whence you ought to know that the bishop is in the Church, and the Church in the bishop...
Page 157 - The dream commenced with a music which now I often heard in dreams — a music of preparation and of awakening suspense, a music like the opening of the Coronation Anthem, and which, like that, gave the feeling of a vast march, of infinite cavalcades filing off, and the tread of innumerable armies.
Page 43 - But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God : and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.