Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Volume 2Society, 1873 "Transactions and publications of the Royal Historical Society" in each vol., ser. 4, v. 18-26. |
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... remained steady for their accommodation , but as soon as the power of prophecy was withdrawn from the world , and the persecuted seers were compelled to flee for safety to other lands , then the stone manifested the profoundest sympathy ...
... remained steady for their accommodation , but as soon as the power of prophecy was withdrawn from the world , and the persecuted seers were compelled to flee for safety to other lands , then the stone manifested the profoundest sympathy ...
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... service ceased , and there remained neither altar , priest , nor sacrifice . All who escaped the sword were carried as captives into Babylon , and Jerusalem lay desolate to 24 TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY .
... service ceased , and there remained neither altar , priest , nor sacrifice . All who escaped the sword were carried as captives into Babylon , and Jerusalem lay desolate to 24 TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY .
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... remained at the S.W. corner , Dr Fergusson concludes Es - Sukhra must have been altogether exterior to the building of the second Temple . During the centuries which intervened between the return of the Jews from Babylon and the advent ...
... remained at the S.W. corner , Dr Fergusson concludes Es - Sukhra must have been altogether exterior to the building of the second Temple . During the centuries which intervened between the return of the Jews from Babylon and the advent ...
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... remained with- out any Christian recognition , is sufficiently remarkable . If the platform of the Mosque of Omar were accessible , some- thing more definite might be written concerning it ; but as yet , with the single exception of Ali ...
... remained with- out any Christian recognition , is sufficiently remarkable . If the platform of the Mosque of Omar were accessible , some- thing more definite might be written concerning it ; but as yet , with the single exception of Ali ...
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... remained in the hands of the Christians . 1187 Jerusalem was retaken by Saladin , and the Holy Stone has ever since been in possession of the Mahommedans . They call it Moriache ; and no Christian is allowed to enter the sacred ...
... remained in the hands of the Christians . 1187 Jerusalem was retaken by Saladin , and the Holy Stone has ever since been in possession of the Mahommedans . They call it Moriache ; and no Christian is allowed to enter the sacred ...
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Page 10 - Were with his heart, and that was far away; He reck'd not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Dacian mother— he, their sire, Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday— All this rush'd with his blood— Shall he expire And unavenged? Arise! ye Goths, and glut your ire!
Page 20 - And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham : And he said, Here am I. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
Page 175 - Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town ? ' Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Page 445 - But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
Page 146 - England possessed in land or in cattle, and how much money this was worth. So very narrowly did he cause the survey to be made, that there was not a single hide nor a rood of land, nor — it is shameful to relate that which he thought no shame to do — was there an ox, or a cow, or a pig passed by, and that was not set down in the accounts, and then all these writings were brought to him.
Page 165 - Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took its wing, I sat, but neither heard nor saw: Tho' this was fair, and that was braw, And yon the toast of a' the town, I sigh'd and said amang them a'; — "Ye are na Mary Morison!
Page 184 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
Page 177 - If thou beest he ; but oh, how fallen ! how changed From him, who in the happy realms of light Clothed with transcendent brightness didst outshine Myriads though bright...
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Page 326 - And therewith kest I doun myn eye ageyne, Quhare as I saw walkyng under the Toure, Full secretely, new cumyn hir to pleyne, The fairest or the freschest younge floure That ever I sawe, methought, before that houre, For quhich sodayne abate, anon astert The blude of all my body to my hert.