Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber: Or, The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice and KnowledgeShepherd & Elliot, 1856 - 455 pages |
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... light that struggled through the fog , —by the help of which I kept watch- ing the landscape till past midnight . Then a spirit of drow- siness invaded me . It was not sleep , but sleep's image , or sleep's counterfeit , —an uneasy ...
... light that struggled through the fog , —by the help of which I kept watch- ing the landscape till past midnight . Then a spirit of drow- siness invaded me . It was not sleep , but sleep's image , or sleep's counterfeit , —an uneasy ...
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... light incorporate , as it were , with the substance of the mountain , and spiritualize it , so that it looks of mould intermediate be- twixt the earth and the firmament . The path is bordered with the most delicious verdure , fresh and ...
... light incorporate , as it were , with the substance of the mountain , and spiritualize it , so that it looks of mould intermediate be- twixt the earth and the firmament . The path is bordered with the most delicious verdure , fresh and ...
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... light , and then a deep bright crimson , like the ruby's flash or the sapphire's blaze , and then a circlet of flaming peaks studs the horizon . It looks as if a great conflagration were about to begin . But suddenly the light fades ...
... light , and then a deep bright crimson , like the ruby's flash or the sapphire's blaze , and then a circlet of flaming peaks studs the horizon . It looks as if a great conflagration were about to begin . But suddenly the light fades ...
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... light , sown by the rosy hand of morn , fringed the mountain ridges , and a multitudinous sea of silvery waves spread out around us . The dawn stole on , waxing momen- tarily ; and the great white Alps , which had been standing all ...
... light , sown by the rosy hand of morn , fringed the mountain ridges , and a multitudinous sea of silvery waves spread out around us . The dawn stole on , waxing momen- tarily ; and the great white Alps , which had been standing all ...
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... light which gives such glory to these mountains . They are so rosy , so vividly , intensely radiant , that you feel as if that boundless effulgence emanated from themselves , were flowing forth from some hidden fountain of light within ...
... light which gives such glory to these mountains . They are so rosy , so vividly , intensely radiant , that you feel as if that boundless effulgence emanated from themselves , were flowing forth from some hidden fountain of light within ...
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Page 84 - The sons also- of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee ; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet ; and they shall call thee, The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
Page 334 - The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Page 335 - Who have for my life laid down their own necks : unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
Page 301 - For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death : for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.
Page 336 - Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.
Page 364 - And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand. When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength: A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
Page 298 - All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he walked in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty...
Page 329 - And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him, preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him.
Page 58 - Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him. For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills...
Page 55 - For the strength of the hills we bless Thee, our God, our fathers