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... visited the Holy Land . After a suitable comment on other doctrines , Sir Richard proceeds to exhibit the origin of the papal usurpation . For a long time , the " Bishops of Rome , " continued to be elected by the people and the clergy ...
... visited the Holy Land . After a suitable comment on other doctrines , Sir Richard proceeds to exhibit the origin of the papal usurpation . For a long time , the " Bishops of Rome , " continued to be elected by the people and the clergy ...
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... visited many of the nobility and gentry , and endeavoured to conciliate them to support the claims of the Roman Catholics . As he was their hired agent , we are not to impute his conduct to disinterested and generous motives , though we ...
... visited many of the nobility and gentry , and endeavoured to conciliate them to support the claims of the Roman Catholics . As he was their hired agent , we are not to impute his conduct to disinterested and generous motives , though we ...
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... visited , and that they did not afford protection to the loyal and peaceable subjects , who in most places were obliged to fly from their habitations , re- solved to restore them to their usual energy , by the following salutary system ...
... visited , and that they did not afford protection to the loyal and peaceable subjects , who in most places were obliged to fly from their habitations , re- solved to restore them to their usual energy , by the following salutary system ...
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... visited Switzerland as well as Italy , and crossed both the Alps and Appenines . In these excursions , he often witnessed pheno- mena not uncommon in the regions just alluded to ; for more than once he beheld a thunder - storm bursting ...
... visited Switzerland as well as Italy , and crossed both the Alps and Appenines . In these excursions , he often witnessed pheno- mena not uncommon in the regions just alluded to ; for more than once he beheld a thunder - storm bursting ...
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... visited several of the convents , assisted at the festival in honour of St. Francis , and in their excursions into the country , observed in the fields many of the flowers so care- fully cultivated in our gardens , and several others we ...
... visited several of the convents , assisted at the festival in honour of St. Francis , and in their excursions into the country , observed in the fields many of the flowers so care- fully cultivated in our gardens , and several others we ...
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Página 42 - Nibelunge," such as it was written down at the end of the twelfth, or the beginning of the thirteenth century, is
Página 322 - The Lord gave and the Lord taketh away; blessed be the name of the Lord.
Página 213 - And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him.
Página 314 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Página 297 - The prince, unable to conceal his pain, Gaz'd on the fair, Who caus'd his care, And sigh'd and look'd, sigh'd and look'd, Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again : At length with love and wine at once oppress'd, The vanquish'd victor sunk upon her breast.
Página 296 - Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face : Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain; Bacchus...
Página 296 - With flying fingers touched the lyre : The trembling notes ascend the sky And heavenly joys inspire. The song began from Jove Who left his blissful seats above — Such is the power of mighty love ! A dragon's fiery form belied the god ; Sublime on radiant...
Página 397 - ... promptitude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to the studies connected with his ordinary pursuits. That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly...
Página 395 - It has increased indefinitely the mass of human comforts and enjoyments; and rendered cheap and accessible, all over the world, the materials of wealth and prosperity. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned; completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory qualities of matter; and laid a sure foundation for all those future miracles of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the labors of after generations.
Página 398 - He had a certain quiet and grave humour, which ran through most of his conversation, and a vein of temperate jocularity, which gave infinite zest and effect to the condensed and inexhaustible information which formed its main staple and characteristic. There was a little air. of affected testiness, and a tone of pretended rebuke and contradiction, with which he used to...