Memoirs of a sergeant, late in the forty-third light infantry regiment ... during the Peninsular war1835 |
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... holy writ , and mingled together in grotesque profusion . " Crom- well , " says Cleveland , " hath beat up his drums clean through the Old Testament . You may learn the genealogy of our Saviour by the names in his regi- ment . The ...
... holy writ , and mingled together in grotesque profusion . " Crom- well , " says Cleveland , " hath beat up his drums clean through the Old Testament . You may learn the genealogy of our Saviour by the names in his regi- ment . The ...
Page 204
... Holy Ghost through him ; wondering without ceasing at his having found Jesus , and at the happy change , by which all things on this side eter- nity were become indifferent to him . In the afternoon he desired to partake of the Lord's ...
... Holy Ghost through him ; wondering without ceasing at his having found Jesus , and at the happy change , by which all things on this side eter- nity were become indifferent to him . In the afternoon he desired to partake of the Lord's ...
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... Holy Ghost . ' It is but a little thing that men should be against you , while they know that God is on your side . If he gives you any companion in the narrow way , it is well ; and it is well , if he do not . So much the more will he ...
... Holy Ghost . ' It is but a little thing that men should be against you , while they know that God is on your side . If he gives you any companion in the narrow way , it is well ; and it is well , if he do not . So much the more will he ...
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... holy dove , to hover over the world , ruling in the hearts of all , and bringing into willing bonds every power of the soul to the obedience of Christ . But this is a digression . With regard to myself , a powerful conviction rested at ...
... holy dove , to hover over the world , ruling in the hearts of all , and bringing into willing bonds every power of the soul to the obedience of Christ . But this is a digression . With regard to myself , a powerful conviction rested at ...
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... holy passion . And I , by his authority , and that of his blessed Apostles , St. Paul and St. Peter , and of the most holy Pope Leo X. , granted unto me in these parts , do absolve thee ; first , from all ecclesiastical censures , and ...
... holy passion . And I , by his authority , and that of his blessed Apostles , St. Paul and St. Peter , and of the most holy Pope Leo X. , granted unto me in these parts , do absolve thee ; first , from all ecclesiastical censures , and ...
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Page 267 - Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean ; from all your filthiness, and from all your idols will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you ; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and do them.
Page 241 - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held : and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...
Page 223 - And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
Page 200 - Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
Page 260 - Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross ; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
Page 189 - So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord : but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might.
Page 243 - 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 258 - Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another, and the Lord hearkened and heard it. and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon His name.
Page 190 - In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Page 193 - And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.