Letters from an Absent Brother: Containing Some Account of the Tour Through Parts of the Netherlands, Switzerland, Northern Italy and France in the Summer of 1823, Volume 2Wilson, 1827 |
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... soon alarmed at the tidings of this accumulation of waters ; and a tunnel , or gallery , was cut through the barrier of ice , to facilitate the escape of the river by its usual channel . The lake was ac- tually reduced forty - five feet ...
... soon alarmed at the tidings of this accumulation of waters ; and a tunnel , or gallery , was cut through the barrier of ice , to facilitate the escape of the river by its usual channel . The lake was ac- tually reduced forty - five feet ...
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... soon as a traveller is near , they invariably smell him out , and lead the servant to him . The domestic is furnished with bread and wine ; and sometimes a dog is sent out alone , with a basket tied to his neck , containing these neces ...
... soon as a traveller is near , they invariably smell him out , and lead the servant to him . The domestic is furnished with bread and wine ; and sometimes a dog is sent out alone , with a basket tied to his neck , containing these neces ...
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... a monk , in a loose habit of black , buttoned down close in front , with a black cap , received us and showed us first into the dining - room , and then to our chambers . Soon after another monk walked out 24 LETTER XII . ROMAN TEMPLE .
... a monk , in a loose habit of black , buttoned down close in front , with a black cap , received us and showed us first into the dining - room , and then to our chambers . Soon after another monk walked out 24 LETTER XII . ROMAN TEMPLE .
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... Soon after another monk walked out with us , and pointed out the chief beauties around . At one place he showed us the division between Switzerland and Italy ; and made us tread at the same time on both countries . He bid us mark ...
... Soon after another monk walked out with us , and pointed out the chief beauties around . At one place he showed us the division between Switzerland and Italy ; and made us tread at the same time on both countries . He bid us mark ...
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... soon come , when the Holy Spirit being poured out on Christendom , a general agreement on essential TRUTH Would prevail , and a holy CHARITY as to non - essen- tial . I could not discover , however , from his replies , that he was much ...
... soon come , when the Holy Spirit being poured out on Christendom , a general agreement on essential TRUTH Would prevail , and a holy CHARITY as to non - essen- tial . I could not discover , however , from his replies , that he was much ...
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Page 292 - And he charged them that they should tell no man : but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it; 37 And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well : he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
Page 140 - Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
Page 227 - At the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth century...
Page 43 - O Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry come unto Thee.
Page 98 - And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
Page 98 - Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.
Page 165 - The present is a fleeting moment, the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last : but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular, still allow about fifteen years.
Page 165 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame.
Page 302 - Mass there is offered to God a true, proper, and propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead : and that in the most holy Sacrament of the Eucharist there is truly, really, and substantially the Body and Blood, together with the Soul and Divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ : and that there is made a conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the Body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the Blood ; which conversion the Catholic Church calls Transubstantiation.
Page 144 - I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ who will judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom...