Narrative of an Excursion to the Mountains of Piemont, in the Year MDCCCXXIII.: And Researches Among the Vaudois, Or WaldensesC. and J. Rivington, 1825 - 287 pages |
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... obliged to my friend , the Rev. John Lamb , the present Vice - Chancellor of the University of Cam- bridge , and Master of Corpus Christi College , for facilitating my access to the valuable Vaudois manuscripts , deposited in the ...
... obliged to my friend , the Rev. John Lamb , the present Vice - Chancellor of the University of Cam- bridge , and Master of Corpus Christi College , for facilitating my access to the valuable Vaudois manuscripts , deposited in the ...
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... obliged most of the farmers to thresh out the greater part of their crops , as quickly as they could , to carry the grain to market for an immediate supply of money . We were at Palisse on Christmas day , a dull country town , which ...
... obliged most of the farmers to thresh out the greater part of their crops , as quickly as they could , to carry the grain to market for an immediate supply of money . We were at Palisse on Christmas day , a dull country town , which ...
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... obliged to be satisfied with being told this was the case , and to con- fine our attention to what is contained within the city . Rousseau , who was always extravagant , ( but perhaps less so in this instance than in many others , ) was ...
... obliged to be satisfied with being told this was the case , and to con- fine our attention to what is contained within the city . Rousseau , who was always extravagant , ( but perhaps less so in this instance than in many others , ) was ...
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... obliged us to continue the exercise , very much to the delight of the mob , who were pleased to see the predicament in which four Englishmen had placed themselves . The Gazette of Lyons afterwards did us the honour to mention our names ...
... obliged us to continue the exercise , very much to the delight of the mob , who were pleased to see the predicament in which four Englishmen had placed themselves . The Gazette of Lyons afterwards did us the honour to mention our names ...
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... obliged to make his escape towards the western provinces . For a short time he was sheltered in Picardy ; but there was no resting - place in the dominions of Philip Augustus for any of his subjects , who presumed to question the papal ...
... obliged to make his escape towards the western provinces . For a short time he was sheltered in Picardy ; but there was no resting - place in the dominions of Philip Augustus for any of his subjects , who presumed to question the papal ...
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Alpine Alps ancient Angrogna Answ APPENDIX Arnaud atque beauty Bert Bishop Bobbio character Christian clergy Clusone commanded Cottian Alps Count Wratislaw doctrine Duke of Savoy edict Emanuel enemy England faith favour French hath Henri Arnaud holy honour hundred inhabitants Jesus Christ King of France King of Sardinia letters Lord Lyons Majesty ministers Mount Cenis mountains never obliged parish passage passed pastor Pelice pension Perosa persecution persons Peter Waldo Peyrani Pianezza Piemontese Pignerol Pinerolo Polybius Pomaretto poor Popish prayer present prince Protestant received reformed religion retreat road rock Roman Catholic Rora San Giovanni San Martino Sardinia scenery Second Edition seen shew snow spot subjects suffered thing thou three valleys tion took Torre torrent troops Turin unto vale Vallées valley of Luzerna valleys of Piemont Vaudois Vertu vestra Victor Amadeus village Villaro Waldenses Waldensian church
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Page 236 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.
Page 236 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our Fathers worshipped stocks and stones...
Page 146 - And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
Page lxxi - Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers : for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? and what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?
Page 145 - And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Page lxviii - Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious : and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
Page lxxi - This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Page 146 - And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud ; and their enemies beheld them.
Page 211 - They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.
Page lix - In like manner, we firmly hold, that there is no other mediator and advocate with God the Father, save only Jesus Christ.