The Book of the CartoonsHoulston and Hughes, 1840 - 185 pages |
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... youth and vigour . There is no relation - there is , on the contrary , an absolute incongruity - between the idea of eternity and the idea of age : that such re- lation exists is an illusion probably imparted to the mind by the use of ...
... youth and vigour . There is no relation - there is , on the contrary , an absolute incongruity - between the idea of eternity and the idea of age : that such re- lation exists is an illusion probably imparted to the mind by the use of ...
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... youth of John is shown , not only in his slighter frame and beardless countenance , but in his action . While he looks round with the interest of curiosity at the scene which is passing in the other boat , still , re- strained indeed ...
... youth of John is shown , not only in his slighter frame and beardless countenance , but in his action . While he looks round with the interest of curiosity at the scene which is passing in the other boat , still , re- strained indeed ...
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... youth ; and have again an especial charm when , in advancing age , our sympathy revives for the calm , the unexciting , and contemplative , which among the strong impulses and urgent necessities of the inter- mediate period are ...
... youth ; and have again an especial charm when , in advancing age , our sympathy revives for the calm , the unexciting , and contemplative , which among the strong impulses and urgent necessities of the inter- mediate period are ...
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... youth with the loftier charms of blooming womanhood , of which so many specimens have been left us by this great master . Her attention also is fixed upon the principal group - or rather on the poor man who is in the act of being healed ...
... youth with the loftier charms of blooming womanhood , of which so many specimens have been left us by this great master . Her attention also is fixed upon the principal group - or rather on the poor man who is in the act of being healed ...
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... for his brother , St. James . The receivers of the apostles ' bounty are figures scarcely less attractive . Two well - attired youths , probably orphans , whom the loss of their natural protectors 116 THE DEATH OF ANANIAS .
... for his brother , St. James . The receivers of the apostles ' bounty are figures scarcely less attractive . Two well - attired youths , probably orphans , whom the loss of their natural protectors 116 THE DEATH OF ANANIAS .
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Page 164 - May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is? 20 For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean. 21 (For all the Athenians, and strangers which were there, spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell or to hear some new thing...
Page 63 - He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure ; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal, The past...
Page 116 - Whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him ? 1 St.
Page 116 - My children, let us not love in word, but in deed and in truth.
Page 144 - And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us, in the likeness of men.
Page 55 - What trust— to one that truth itself defied ? What good in him that did his God forswear ? O sin of sins, of ills the very worst ! O matchless wretch ! O caitiff most accurs'd ! " Could servile fear of rend'ring nature's due, Which growth in years was shortly like to claim, So thrall my love that I should thus eschew A vowed death, and miss so fair an aim ? Die, die, disloyal wretch ! thy life detest : For, saving thine, thou hast forsworn the best. " Ah life ! sweet drop, drown'd in a sea of sours...
Page 30 - A similar holy fear seized Simon, by reason of the draught of fishes ; therefore he said, Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord ; but Jesus said unto him, Fear not, Luke v.
Page 66 - Darts of disdain and angry checks did yield. & 6 0 sacred eyes ! the springs of living light, The earthly heavens where angels joy to dwell, <-• How could you deign to view my deathful plight, Or let your heavenly beams look on my hell ? But those unspotted eyes encounter'd mine, As spotless sun doth on the dunghill shine.
Page 12 - Magi. 3, 4 & 5. The Slaughter of the Innocents. 6. The Presentation in the Temple. 7. The Miraculous Draught of Fishes. 8. St Peter receiving the Keys. 9. The Descent of Christ into Limbus. 10. The Resurrection. 11. Noli me Tangere. 12. Christ at Emmaus. 13. The Ascension, 14. The Descent of the Holy Ghost. 15. The Martyrdom of St Stephen. 16. The Conversion of St Paul. 17. Paul and Barnabas at Lystra. 18. Paul Preaching at Athens.
Page 180 - THE NEW TESTAMENT IN GREEK; Chiefly from the TEXT of MILL; with COPIOUS ENGLISH NOTES.